This is the internment (or “assumption”) bonfire in the Bogside with what appear to be hand-painted boards depicting a PSNI land-rover and the flags of the UVF, Scotland, Israel, and LVF. It is not known if these were stolen or painted exclusively for the purpose of burning.
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Here are two pieces of graffiti from Slemish Way, opposite and below the Kieran Doherty portrait. First, “Fuck Thatcher – remember 1981 hunger strikers”; second, “Michael Campbell – bring him home” (see BBC).
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“In proud and loving memory of Vol. Gerard [Gerald] McDade, Belfast Brigade, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann. Murdered by British Crown Forces 21st December 1971, aged 23 years. NÍ dhéanfaıdh muıd dearmad [gur] fuaır sé bás ar son saoırse na hÉıreann. Remember Our Volunteers Committee, 17th December 2011.”
McDade was staff captain of 3rd battalion. He was stopped on foot in Ardoyne (where he is also remembered) and was shot while trying to run off (Belfast Child). This plaque, in Beechmount Road, was mounted for the fortieth anniversary of his death.
The plaque is on the whitewashed gable that was previously the site of a mural to volunteers Liam “Bulmer” McParland, Billy Carson, Liam Mulholland, and Sean Doyle – see Ballymurphy Resistance.
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Eddie The Trooper is repainted in the Waterside. The main panel remains as before but the Haig quote above has been replaced by the UFF’s clenched fist in a yellow six-pointed star.
Eddie has his own Visual History page.
Ebrington Terrace, Londonderry
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A small engraved plaque showing the shop-front of Frizzell’s fish shop has been added to the memorial on the Shankill Road. The upper tablet was seen previously in Frizzell’s.
Another such engraving can be found on the Mountainview Bar/Tavern, commemorating the 1975 bombing and gun attack there in which five people were killed and 60 injured (WP).
Three more Shankill bombings are commemorated in Shankill Atrocities.
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Here is a gallery of minor pieces from Ardoyne:
“Join RSF [Republican Sinn Féin] – Éire Nua” in Estoril Park
“Free Marian Price” in Flax Street
“Repatriate Michael Campbell – bring him home” in Ardoyne Avenue (BBC)
“No sectarian parade 100%” in Jamaica Road (WP)
“Ha ha Thatcher – IRA” in Havana Court
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This eochaır/key replaces a plough-in-the-stars on the OIRA ex-prisoners support centre on the Falls Road at Clondara Terrace, seen in Official Republican Movement. The centre perhaps takes its name from the newspaper from the 1970s that was composed of articles written by prisoners and smuggled out of Long Kesh. Here is issue #3, from September, 1973.
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“End British internment of Irish republicans 2013”. On Divis Street’s “international wall” (Visual History) for the 42nd anniversary of the introduction of internment and in reference to prisoners from anti-Agreement currently behind bars.
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“PSNI-MI5 = political policing” – a message from Gael Force Art (Fb) on Sliabh Dubh/Black Mountain (Visual History) above west Belfast.
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“Human rights activist Pat Finucane 1949-1989 targeted by British establishment, executed by unionist death squads. “……If you don’t defend human rights lawyers who will defend human rights?-Rosemary Nelson”
This printed board replaces a similar painted board.
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Peter Moloney Collection 