Celtic cross (with harp) ‘in fond memory’ of fallen republican volunteers. The Ulster flag makes a rare appearance alongside the Starry Plough, Tricolour, and Sunburst.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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A row of six panels from Ballycolman estate, Strabane, with individual shots of four of them: (1) We will meet force with force – Irish Republican Army (also seen in 1989); (2) You may kill the revolutionary but never the revolution – Che Guevara 1928-1967 (a completed version of what was visible in 1989); (3) Honour Ireland’s patriot dead – wear an Easter lily (also seen in 1989); (4) James Connolly (for a solo shot, see the 1989 image); (5) Óglaıgh na hÉıreann (for a solo shot, see the 1989 image); (6) Stop Strip Searches (seen previously in 1989)
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Three in a row in Mount Sion, Strabane. On the left, a single volunteer fires a funeral shot over a very faded saying of Pearse’s: “Life springs from death and from the graves of patriotic men and women spring living nations.” In the centre, another funeral volley over an INLA Roll Of Honour bearing the names Neil McMonagle, Colm McNutt, Pierce Moore, Patsy O’Hara, Kevin Lynch, Micky Devine, James McPhilemy. On the right, a masked INLA volunteer with Thompson sub-machine gun.
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Joe Coyle, Tommy McCool (and two of his children) and Tommy Carlin died as a result of a premature explosion in the McCool family kitchen. Coyle and McCool died on June 27th; Carlin succumbed to his injuries on July 8th, 1970.
The board shown, announcing a march on Sunday 24th (June) 1990, is on the rear of Free Derry Corner, (Visual History), Lecky Road, Derry.
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Here is another instance of the ‘masked skull’ design produced by prisoners in Long Kesh (according to Mo Chara Kelly), seen previously in Britains Death Squads. This version is simpler: it does not have any writing and there is no UDR emblem on the UDA-style hat. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Painted in 1989 and badly damaged by 1990: Britain’s death squads: UDA and UVF behind the sunglasses and mask on one side, the UDR and RUC on the other, with clothing and skin stripped away, and the British Army at the bottom. To the left of shot is Dagda and to the right Union Jack Crumbling.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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“Twenty years – onward to victory”. 1969 to 1989 perhaps. Somewhere on the Falls Road, Belfast
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“Stop extradition – support Dessie Ellis – don’t let him die on hungerstrike”. Mural by Marty Morris on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, showing a male Justice and a prisoner both in celtic style. For some background, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Now-TD Dessie Ellis went on hunger strike in October 1990 in protest against the threat of extradition from the Republic to the North. The poster shown above is outside the Sınn Féın offices/art shop. (See previously the office in 1981 and in 1987.)
Falls Road, west Belfast
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