
The emblem of Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) is the Molotov cocktail with Easter lily as a fuse. Dove Gardens, Derry.
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The portraits are of Tony Nolan, Joseph Downey, Frank Fitzsimons, Joey Surgenor, Paul Marlowe, Jim Templeton, and Brendan Davison, all of whom were IRA volunteers (Templeton, aged 15, was in the Fianna) and all of whom died in and around the Markets. (Their names would be added to the mural when it was repainted.) This mural replaces Firing Party and is based on the photograph included in Victory IRA.
Friendly Way, Markets, south Belfast
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This is the first full mural from the IRPWA in the Collection (after a 2001 flag in Derry and some 2002 writing in Belfast). It calls for segregation in Portlaoise, Maghaberry, and English jails.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Pat Hughes was a former British Army soldier who later joined the IRA and was killed in an accidental explosion (in 1972). He is remembered along with Edward Grant (1973), Michael Hughes (1974), Brendan Watters (1984), Colm Marks (1991). Together the five are known as the “Derrybeg Martyrs”.
Main Avenue, Newry
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Board on Camlough Road, Newry, calling for political status for republican prisoners in Maghaberry. For the bus shelter and the IRA on the lamp-post, on the left, see Bus Shelters Of The Revolution and IRA For the hunger striker/political status board on the right, see Political Status Denied.
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“I ndılchuımhne orthu sıúd a bhaın le ceantar Dhoıre Beag agaus a fuaır bás as son saoırse na hÉıreann. Ar dheıs Dé go raıbh a n-anamacha. Erected in proud and loving memory of all those associated with the townland of Derrybeg who fought and died in Ireland’s struggle for freedom. Muıntır Dhoıre Beag a thóg an leacht cuımhneacháın seo. Nochtadh é um Cháısc 1996. [This monument erected by the people of Derrybeg. Unveiled Easter 1996.]”
Derrybeg, Newry
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IRA volunteer Dennis (or Denis, according to Sutton, and thence lots of others) Heaney was kill on June 10th, 1978 by an undercover British Army member whilst attempting to hijack a car, near the spot of this plaque to his memory in Harvey Street, Derry.
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