“Green River – in honour of our dead. In tribute to the people of Beechmount and surrounding areas.” A booklet detailing the lives of IRA, Sınn Féın, and local republicans appeared in 1998 (An Phoblacht) inspired by Seando Moore (Danny Morrison).
Locan Street, Beechmount, west Belfast
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Pike, pistol, and assault rifles — a brief history of republican weaponry in remembrance of local volunteers and activists. At the centre, below the phoenix, is Stan Carberry, included on a Falls Road plaque.
AMCOMRI Street, Beechmount, west Belfast
“Erected by Coıste Cuımhneacháın Ard Na bhFeá 2003.” The plaque reads, “This mural is dedicated to the volunteers of ‘A’ company 2nd batt. Belfast Brigade Óglaıgh na hÉıreann, to the Sınn Féın members Mid Falls cumann, who militarily and politically gave their all for a 32 county social democratic republic. Their names have been spoken off [sic] among their friends and comrades throughout the years. Now everyone can see the faces and not just hear the names of the ordinary people with extra-ordinary lives.”
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IRA volunteers Albert Kavanagh and Stan Carberry were both killed in 1972. Carberry was killed in La Salle Drive, the site of this plaque (at its junction with the Falls Road, Belfast).
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Here are two 2003 images of the 2001 installation for the 20th anniversary of the hunger strike at the La Salle bend in the Falls Road, Belfast.
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“We demand the truth – collusion is state murder”, “Collusion kills”, and a list of “British death squads – RUC UVF LVF”. Tie-ups on the Falls Road, Belfast.
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Added to the drawing of collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries are portraits and news reports of its victims: John Slane, John Devine, Peter Watterson, Anthony McGrady, Sadie Larmour, Paddy McAllister, Jim ‘Skipper’ Burns, Paddy BRady, Philomena Hanna, Patrick Hamill, and shopkeepers Jim Carson and Sean Hughes.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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“Targeted by British Establishment; Executed by Loyalist killer gang.” Solicitor and “human rights activist” Pat Finucane was shot in 1989 at his home in north Belfast by loyalist paramilitaries aided by MI5. Collusion in the killing was admitted in 2011 by then-Prime Minister David Cameron. Ten years after Finucane’s death, Rosemary Nelson was also assassinated. “If you don’t defend human rights lawyers, who will defend human rights? – Rosemary Nelson”. Rare for a mural, this piece is signed by the artists.
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Castlerea Prison is in Roscommon, Ireland. Five IRA prisoners convicted of killing Garda Jerry McCabe during a robbery in 1996 – Pearse McCauley, Michael O’Neill, John Quinn, Jerry Sheehy, Kevin Walsh – were not released in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. A campaign for their release was organised under the slogan “Free the Castlerea Five!”. Above is a Sinn Féin call to a rally to “expose collusion – state sponsored murder. Fírınne Anoıs – Truth Now!” Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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“In proud memory of the volunteers from ‘A’ company 1st battalion Belfast brigade Oglaıgh na h-Eıreann who gave their lives in the struggle for Irish freedom also all comrades from the greater republican family who have died and all the people from the area who have been murdered at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR and loyalist murder gangs. I measc laochra na nGael go raıbh a n-anamacha.” Shaws Road.
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