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Ceapach Na bPoblachtach, Reılıg Ghlas Naíon

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Here is a gallery of head-stones in the republican plot, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, arranged in chronological order:

1798: Anne Devlin
1848: Terence McManus, John O’Mahony, John Dillon
1867 (Fenian Rising): Thomas Kelly, Timothy Deasy, John Devoy, James Stephens
1867 (Manchester Martyrs): William Allen, Michael Larkin, Michael O’Brien
Jim Larkin, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa
1916
1920 (Mutiny): led by James Daly
1920/1921 (Mountjoy Executions): Kevin Barry, Thomas Traynor, Thomas Bryan, Patrick Doyle, Frank Flood, Patrick Moran, Bernard Ryan, Thomas Whelan, Edmund Foley, Patrick Maher
1922: Michael Collins, Charles Malley, Caṫal Bruġa
1938 (Spain): Frank Ryan
Hunger Strikers: Thomas Ashe, Michael Fitzgerald, Joseph Murphy, Terence MacSwiney, Joseph Whitty, Denis Barry, Andy Sullivan Tony Darcy, Seán McNeela, Seán McCaughey, Michael Gaughan, Frank Stagg, the 1981 deceased
Dáıthí Ó Connaıll

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Emmet: M13251 M13252
1848: M13248 M13249 M13250 M13288
1867: M13256 M13260 M13271
Manchester: [M13253] M13254 M13255
1916: M13268 M13257 M13289
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Mutiny: M13261 [M13262]
Mountjoy: M13275 M13277 M13278 M13283 [M13284] [M13285]
1922: [M13226] M13227 M13246 M13273
1938: M13279
HS: M13263 [M13264] [M13265] [M13266]
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Republican Coalisland

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“We salute the memory of all those who have given their lives for the cause of Irish freedom.” Both pro-Agreement (Sinn Féin) and anti-Agreement (IRPWA/Saoradh/New IRA) groups are marking the centenary of the Easter Rising. Also included is a commemoration of the (1981) Hunger Strike and support expressed for Gaza: “#FreeGaza #BoycottIsreal [sic]”

Lineside, Barrack Street, and Mourne Road, Coalisland

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Viva Palestine

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“Tıocfaıdh ár lá”, “يومنا قادم” [yeomna qadm, our day is coming] (and below, “Saoırse” and “حرية” [freedom].

The figure at the centre of the mural, with the PFLP emblem, is sky-jacker Leila Khaled – for background on her see the same stencil of her in Hugo Street.

Seen previously in better condition in 2015. AMCOMRI St (AMerican COMmittee [for] Relief [in] Ireland), Beechmount, west Belfast

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The Battle Of Britain

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“Love demands sacrifice”. “‘From this day to the ending of the world … we in it shall be remembered, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers’ for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother’ – Henry V, William Shakespeare”

2015 marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle Of Britain, which was waged from July to October in 1940. This large board is part of an anti-racism project, celebrating the contributions to the Battle made by roughly 145 Polish aviators (WP) and especially the 303 squadron, which was stationed in Northern Ireland for a time (BBC-NI). “The Polish nation – part of us then, part of us now”.

The artist is Ross Wilson. Belfast Live has a report on the launch.

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Free Stephen Kaczynski

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Stephen (or Stephan) “Steve” Kaczynski will go before a Turkish court on September 18th on charges of membership of the Marxist-Leninist ‘Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front’ (DHKP-C). (WP) In April, members of the group took over a courtroom and held a state prosecutor hostage; when special forces stormed the building, the hostage and two of his captors died. (Independent) Kaczynski, a freelance journalist from Scotland, is alleged to be instrumental in financing the group. Alternatively, (according to various newspaper reports) he is an undercover agent of the Germans (Daily Sabah) or the British (Brian Haw). He has been on hunger-strike in protest at the conditions in Maltepe #3 since June 25th.

Replaces the announcement of a talk about torture in prisons. For the wider frame, see The Only Secure Community Is An Organised One.

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Join The Revolution

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These images are from the front yard of Costello House, the Falls Road home of the IRSP. Top, “Belfast RSYM [Republican Socialist Youth Movement] – join the movement”. Immediately above, “In memory of the Irishmen who fought against fascism with the XV International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. No pasaran. ‘Through the mists of time they will never be forgotten.’ Erected by the Irish Republish Socialist Movement.”

See also the plaque to Seamus Costello.

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Not A Bullet

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These graffiti are on the building below Kildrum Gardens. “Not a bullet, not an ounce” is a comment on (Provisional) IRA disarmament and continued physical-force resistance; “End British internment” is a comment on the fate of prisoners from anti-Agreement organisation; “Free Gaza!!” and “Israel scum” are comments on the 2014 Gaza War (WP).

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You Cannot Kill Ideas

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A week before he was assassinated and his government overthrown, Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara asserted: “While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.” Sankara gained power of Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) in a 1983 coup and launched an ambitious programme of literacy, feminism, public health, and agricultural self-sufficiency, in addition to launching a drive against corruption and of nationalizing natural resources. He attempted this all without the assistance of foreign aid or the IMF or World Bank. However, he wielded power outside the jurisdiction of the courts and controlled the press. He and twelve colleagues were killed in October 1987.

Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast

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