Four scenes from the “conveyor belt” of the British police and judicial system, including (in the bottom left) a prisoner before a single judge in a Diplock court, around an image of Ireland with a union jack in the shape of a soldier with rifle aloft standing over Northern Ireland.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00087
A trio of flags on halberds: Starry Plough, Tricolour, Sunburst.
0222?Beechmount Avenue?, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00222
An armalite on the corner of Falls Road library in Sevastopol Street, Belfast (and visible at the edge of 13 Gone But Not Forgotten) points at a saracen (or Humber Pig) parked on the pavement. “Provos” graffiti is on the abandoned houses on the Falls Road.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00221
A large celtic cross flies the Tricolour and Starry Plough. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00220
The four provinces are named in Irish/Gaelic — Uladh/Ulster, Laıghean/Leinster, Muman/Munster, Connacta/Connaght — around a (vandalised) image of an IRA (óglaıgh na hÉıreann) volunteer.
unknown street, (Beechmount?) Belfast.
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M00219 (see also X05727)
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The red star and the hammer-and-sickle make an appearance alongside the Tricolour, Starry Plough, a fist grasping barbed wire, and the names of four hunger-strikers: B. Sands, P. O’Hara, R. McCreesh, F. Hughes. Turf Lodge shops, Monagh Road/Monagh Gardens/Norglen Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00218
This is the oldest continuously maintained mural in Belfast. It was touched up in 1987 and 1990, and was repainted in 2013. It features a central phoenix and the shields of the four provinces, and two rhyming couplets: The people arose in 69/they will do it again at any time. Maggie Thatcher think again/don’t let our brave men die in vain
Clowney Street, Beechmount, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00217
Martin Luther King in 1966 (in an interview on CBS) said “A riot is the language of the unheard” and in 1967 (in “Beyond Vietnam“) wrote “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” Misquoted and taken out of context, his words are used approvingly in this INLA/IRA mural.
Gransha Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00216
This mural features an unusual representation of Ireland divided into its four provinces. Also seen: Irish Tricolour and Sunburst flags sticking out of the island and the lark in barbed wire. Clonard Street, Belfast
See also: The Lark And The Freedom Fighter
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M00215
A phoenix rising from blue, green, and red flames, flanked by an AK-47(?) and an armalite and tricolours on halberds.
Lenadoon Walk, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00209
