Here is the outside of the An Phoblacht/Republican News office on Andersonstown Road, Belfast in 2003. The symbol in the middle is the crest of 1798’s United Irishmen – “Equality” and “It is new strung and shall be heard” around a Maid Of Erin harp and the cap of liberty. In 2018, the newspaper will only publish on-line.
See previously: the mast-head on the side of the Falls Road Sinn Féin office.
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Silhouetted figures with raised fists and flashing the victory sign protest for saoırse (freedom).
Lenadoon Avenue, west Belfast
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Graffiti under the Lecky Road overpass, Derry.
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This crude hunger strike mural, with hand-written names of the ten deceased men and a line-drawing of a lark, is in Lecky Road, Derry.
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“Political status now” and an American “Cops out” – republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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This is a 20′ x 20′ tarp of an 8′ x 8′ painting done by Mo Chara, shipped over from New York and placed on the side of the Falls library, Belfast. It honours the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers with a verse from a Bobby Sands poem and a border of celtic knotwork, the crests of the four provinces, and other revolutionary and civil rights heroes, include Gandhi, MLK, Gaughan & Stagg, Leonard Peltier/the AIM, Nelson Mandela, Maıréad Farrell, and Nora Connolly.
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This vintage graffiti in Bombay Street, west Belfast, dates back to the 1981 hunger strike.
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A large board on Oldpark Road, Belfast, shows a lark, an H-Block, blanket men Hugh Rooney and Freddie Toal, the towers of Long Kesh, and portraits of the deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
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The Holy Cross dispute of 2001 (WP) is compared to desegregation in the southern United States in the wake of Brown v. Board Of Education in 1957 (WP). The left panel is a rendition of an iconic image of Hazel Bryan hectoring Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine (WP), in Little Rock, Arkansas. The orange sweaters of the central children echo that of the child in the red coat in the (almost entirely black-and-white) Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List. “Everyone has the right to live free from sectarian harassment.”
Estoril Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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A cartoon British soldier (in the style of Cormac) is given the boot. Sponsored by “Ardoyne Ógra Shınn Féın”.
Brompton Park, north Belfast
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