A dove/lark in celtic style and the oak-leaf representing the city of Derry comprise the emblem of Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972. See previously: Bloody Sunday ’72 | Domhnach Na Fola
Rossville Street, Derry
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“Sean [aka John] Downes, age 22, murdered at this location by the RUC on the 12/8/84. Victim of state violence.” Downes was hit at close range by a plastic bullet outside Connolly House on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast during an attempt by police to arrest NORAID‘s Martin Galvin. Reserve Constable Nigel Hegarty was charged with manslaughter but was cleared.
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Two pieces of republican graffiti in Lenadoon: “Not an ounce, not a bullet” (i.e. against decommissioning) and “Remember ’69’ – never again”.
Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast
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The dying Cú Chulaınn (as portrayed in bronze by Oliver Sheppard, in a statue installed in the GPO in 1935) is used as a symbol for the locals from Lenadoon area of west Belfast who fought for freedom (“saoırse”): Tony Henderson, John Finucane, Brendan O’Callaghan, Joe McDonnell, Laura Crawford, Maıréad Farrell, Patricia Black, Bridie O’Neill (subsequently changed to Bridie Quinn).
See also the Cú Chulaınn Visual History page.
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“They may kill the revolutionary but not the revolution.” The imagery of the open-throated volunteers goes back to a 1981 poster. The 11 portraits are perhaps those of the people listed on the roll of honour at Constance Markievicz House, a short distance away: Martin Skillen, Gerard Fennell, Sean McDermott, Paul Best, Pearse Jordan, Terence O’Neill, John Dempsey, Martin Forsythe, Tom Magill, Sean Savage. Kevin McCracken.
Norglen Parade, Belfast
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Solicitor Rosemary Nelson was killed by the Red Hand Defenders in Lurgan in 1999. At the time of her death she was representing the family of Robert Hamill. King Street, Belfast.
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UDA brigadier Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was imprisoned from 1995 to 1999 but had his early released revoked in 2000 because of the feud with the UVF and was sent to Maghaberry. He was released in May 2002 but again imprisoned in January 2003 (WP).
Cliftonpark Avenue, north Belfast
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An Gorta Mór is the Great Famine, or the Great Hunger among those who point out that there was plenty of food in Ireland in the late 1840s, just not made available to peasants. Of a population around eight million, a million people died and a million more emigrated. “They buried us without shroud or coffin” is a line from an unrelated Seamus Heaney poem Requiem For The Croppies.
The mural comprises three images from Illustrated London News: The Ejectment, The Day After The Ejectment | The Embarkation, Waterloo Docks Liverpool.
“Ardoyne Art & Environment Project”. In 2004, “Emigration” was incorrectly spelled with two “M”s – see the post at Extramural Activity.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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This mural commemorates the repression of Catholicism and use of mass rocks as secret locations in the days of the penal laws, c. 1650-1800 under and after Cromwell.
“Is í an charraıg seo ıonad adhartha ar náıthreacha, áıt ar cothaıodh an creıdeamh do na glúnta a bhí le teacht.” [“This rock is our ancestors’ place of worship, where religion was preserved for the generations that were to come.”]
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast. This image would also be reproduced in Andersonstown.
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“This mural honours black taxi drivers who were murdered in this conflict”, including the eight named in the ‘roll of honour’ on the right: Michael Duggan, Jim Green, Harry Muldoon, Paddy McAllister, Caoımmhın [sic] McBradaıgh (killed at Milltown), Thomas Hughes, Hugh Magee, Padraıg Ó Cleırigh. “In memory of all taxi drivers, public and private, who were murdered by loyalist/British crown forces during the conflict serving their community through transport.”
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast. For a similar mural on the Falls, see Serving The Community.
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