“The best way for the people not to be prisoners is for the people to seize power.” The words of Father Camilo Torres, a Colombian socialist and Catholic priest, next to a pair of arms wrapped in barbed wire and an Irish tricolour, in Springhill Park, Strabane.
Jack Clafferty of Troops Out is the originator of the barbed-wired-bound fists.
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In 1987, 20 surface-to-air missiles missiles were part of the shipment confiscated from the trawler Eksund. In 1988, it was reported that a shipment of arms from Libya to the IRA included such missiles. Springhill Park or Ballycolman, Strabane. Next to Onwards To Victory.
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IRA mural in Springhill Park, Strabane. For the poster on which the three volunteers are based, see Our Day Will Come.
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The longest-lived King William mural in Belfast, dating back to 1932, was at the junction of Rockland Street and Donegall Road, in the Village area of the city. It would survive a few more years before the building would be demolished.
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For nine years, IRA man Joe Doherty, a native of the New Lodge, fought extradition from the United States. Doherty had escaped from Crumlin Road jail while awaiting trail on three counts of murder. He was eventually deported in 1992. (WP)
New Lodge Road, Belfast
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“They call the killing of Stephen McConomy ‘civil order’.” McConomy was an 11-year-old boy killed by a British Army plastic bullet on April 16th, 1982.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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A call to march on the rear of Free Derry Corner, with police and army firing plastic bullets. Lecky Road, Derry.
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UDA commanders denied that member Michael Stone was acting with their knowledge or approval when he attacked the funeral of the “Gibraltar 3” in March 1988. Hence, “Ulster’s freelance Loyalist paramilitary.”
Wapping Lane, Londonderry
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An ornate regimental (WWI) coat of arms, for the East Belfast regiment, with the emblem of the Ulster Volunteers symbol on an Ulster banner shield, topped by a crown and surrounded by an arrangement of roses, thistles, and shamrock. “Contemporised” by masked volunteers with weapons pointed, in front of Union flag and St Andrew’s Saltire. Chelsea Street, Belfast
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The centre of the UVF emblem (typically a red hand) is replaced by masked volunteer with AK-47. “For God and Ulster”.
Chelsea Street, east Belfast
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