Internment without trial was a highly controversial ‘Special Power’ enacted in 1971. This 2008 graffiti alleges that the practice still continues under the guise of indefinite remand. The practice was used against RIRA and CIRA members. See, for example, this 2008 RTÉ report and the later case of Luke O’Neill who was granted bail after (only) 17 months.
Lecky Road, Derry
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These images are from Top Of The Hill/Gobnascale. The size of the Tricolour flying on Old Strabane Road can be gauged by the second picture, which was taken from Craigavon bridge.
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No surrender! Let no one question the loyalty of this graffitist in Wapping Lane, Londonderry. Quis separabit!
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“Between 1969 and 1988 117 residents from the New Lodge, Carrick Hill and Newington were killed as a direct result of the conflict. 22 of those were killed by state forces. 86 were killed by loyalist paramilitaries. 19 of those who died were IRA volunteers.” Placard on the New Lodge Road.
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There were originally three boards underneath this “Join SFY [Sinn Féin Youth]” writing in Berwick Road, Belfast – see C01373.
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2008 image of 2002’s Easter Rising mural in Berwick Road, Belfast.
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2008 view of the IRA/Fıanna memorial garden in Berwick Road, Belfast. The pieces remain as before (see 2002).
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“This mural is dedicated to the memory of those local republican activists who devoted their lives to the cause of Irish freedom. Ar son na cıse [sic]. Oglaıgh [sic] na hÉıreann. Unveiled by Sınn Féın councillors Martin Meehan and Margaret McClenaghan.”
“A, D, F foıreannacha, cathlann 3ru [sic], brıogaıd [sic] mBeal [sic] Feırste.
“‘Many suffer so that some day future generations may live in justice and peace’ – Vol Bobby Sands.”
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“This plaque is dedicate to IRA Volunteer Larry Marley, assassinated in his home at Havana Gardens by loyalists in collusion with British crown forces on the 2nd April 1987.” Marley’s funeral was obstructed by security forces for several days, with scenes from Ardoyne being broadcast worldwide.
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The Woodvale Defence Association merged with other ‘defence association’ to form the UDA in 1971. In the drawing above, “UDA” (which appears at the bottom anyway) has been scored out and replaced with “UDU”, which refers to the UDU of 1893, and which is being used by (some) anti-Agreement members of the (pre-Agreement) UDA as a new name for the organisation (beginning in 2007: Newsletter | Remembrance Day Statement at CAIN). Cf. UDU-WDA-UDA-UFF | Daffodil Days.
With “No surrender” and “Kill all taigs”.
Disraeli Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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