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St James’s Support The Hunger Strikers

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Here is a wide shot and some details of the two-part mural in Hugo Street, seen in progress in 2001 and completed in 2002. On the left is a depiction of the funeral of Joe McDonnell; on the right, posters and protesters from the time of the hunger strikes.

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Sınn Féın Trade Union Dept

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James Connolly (1868-1916) foregrounds Dublin’s Liberty Hall, headquarters of the ITGWU and the ICA (Irish Citizen Army) during WWI and the Rising, flying a banner reading “We serve neither king nor kaiser but Ireland.” The building was destroyed during the Rising. The quote, “The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour.” is from an 1916 article by Connolly, ‘The Irish Flag‘. “For a Democratic Socialist Republic.”

Rockmount Street, west Belfast

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Remember The Hunger Strike

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For the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, images from the period are reproduced in a mural sponsored by the “Ardoyne, Bone, Ligoniel 80/81 Commemoration Committee”: the funeral volley over Bobby Sands’s coffin, Derry women protesting conditions in Long Kesh by wearing blankets, women banging bin lids (see United Irishwomen) and protestors outside a polling station.

The frame is from the previous Érıu mural.

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Fearless

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The crest in the top left is of the “Cavehill Young Loyalists” who wrote on their website “The Cavehill Young Loyalists was formed on June 1999 in Westland, North Belfast by a group of young Protestants not willing to tolerate any more violence from the Irish Republican Movement, so they took up arms. Innocent Catholic families should have no fear of us as we attack legitimate Republican targets, but make no mistake we are in readiness, and fearless.” (archive.org). “Westland UFF 3rd batt K coy.”

Westland Road, north Belfast

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