We end the 1989 images from Ballycolman, Strabane, with this declaration of independence.
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You Are Now In Free Strabane
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Everyone, Republican Or Otherwise
The words of a smiling Bobby Sands in Ballycolman, Strabane: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his or her own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small. No one is too old or too young to do something. – IRA Vol. Bobby Sands MP 1954-1981” [Diary, March 14th, 1981]
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Censored
Three of four parts of a long mural about censorship. In the first, a pair of “Censor Ltd” scissors cut the cord to the microphone of a speaker who is also gagged – the idea comes from a Jack Clafferty drawing, included below. The second gives figures making the case for the under-representation of Sinn Féin in government: 1 MP, 40[%] nationalist elec[torate?], 56 [city/district] council[lors]. Just out of view to the right of “Censored” is “Britain ignores the voice of arguement.”
For the image on which the first panel is based, see Many Have Eyes. The imagery of scissors cutting a microphone cord is by Jack Clafferty.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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H Block Martyrs
The ten deceased hunger strikers are named alongside a celtic cross with “saoırse” on a scroll, a tricolour and Starry Plough. Ballycolman, Strabane. Bobby Sands OC MP, Francies Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty TD, Tom McElwee, Mickey Devine.
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A Traitor And A Murderess
“[The] Anglo-Irish Agreement proved one to be a traitor, the other the murderess she is.” The portraits are presumably of Margaret Thatcher and Garrett FitzGerald, who signed the agreement at Hillsborough Castle in November, 1985, though it is difficult to tell them apart – which is perhaps the point. A good picture of the pair can be found at the top of this Guardian article on the crafting of the document. This is the fifth (extreme right) of five murals on a wall in Ballycolman estate, Strabane.
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Six Shields
This post begins a series of five in a row on a wall in Ballycolman estate in Strabane. First (on the left) we have the shields of the four provinces, and their names in Irish, with a Tricoloured shield and sunburst shield of Na Fıanna in the middle.
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England Get Out Of Ireland!
The hand of Ireland catches the hand of Britain in the act of ripping a tricoloured Northern Ireland from the island of Ireland. Blood drips from the severed six counties, as well as from the British limb.
Also seen in 1990.
For the same idea in Belfast, see Stad Maggie Anoıs.
Townsend Street, Strabane.
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Many Have Eyes But Cannot See
A frequent biblical idea about lack of faith (Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:21, Ezekiel 12:2, Matthew 13:15, Acts 28:27, Romans 11:8. NKJV) used to comment on censorship. Rossville Street, Derry. See previously: Many Have Eyes.
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner, 1989 or 1990. Lecky Road, Derry. It’s not clear whether this is before or after the paint-bombed wall also from 1989. Perhaps after, given that the graffiti on the block to the right has been blacked out.
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Those Who Died On Hunger Strike
These are the same image, rotated for legibility, of the Hunger Strike memorial in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.
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