This is the 2012 instantiation of a tradition on the Twinbrook shops of marking the anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike (though portraits of Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan are included). The tradition began in 2006 with the 25th anniversary | 27th anniversary | 29th anniversary | 30th anniversary.
Twinbrook Road, Dunmurry
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Bobby Sands grew up and went to school in Rathcoole but in 1972, when he was eighteen, the family home was attacked. They moved to Twinbrook, where Sands joined the IRA (Bobby Sands Trust | WP). A nearby installation on the footpath claims that Twinbrook is the “Home Of Bobby Sands“.
This mosaic is near the Twinbrook home, on the same wall that was the site of the Carol-Ann Kelly mural. Kelly was killed two weeks after Sands’s death.
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“Sınn Féın national hunger strike commemoration – 2012. March & rally – 2 pm Sunday 5th August, Dungiven – Co. Derry. Main speaker Michelle O’Neill MLA. Dungiven 81 Committee/1981 Dún Geımhın.” There is video of the event from An Phoblacht/Sınn Féın.
On the rear of Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry.
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A large “H” stands between Killough Road and Ballymote Walk, Downpatrick as a memorial to the blanketmen and hunger strikers of the H-Blocks.
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On June 27th, (2012) Martin McGuinness of Sınn Féın and formerly the IRA shook hands with Queen Elizabeth II, head of the UK’s armed forces (Guardian). Derry republicans took to the walls of Derry to express their feelings of betrayal.
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2012 is a busy year – Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee, the centenary of the Ulster covenant, and recent (2011-2012) home and away strips for Glentoran and new home and away strips for Ulster rugby in 2012-2013.
Newtownards Road, Belfast
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Carson at the corner of Welland Street and the Newtownards Road, below a banner for the East Belfast Protestant Boys (Fb).
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This is the Bogside Artists’ ‘Peace’ mural along Rossville Street, Derry, looking worn and faded compared to 2004.
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“DUP congratulates her majesty the queen on her diamond jubilee” above the constituency offices of Arlene Foster and Maurice Morrow in Wellington Road, Enniskillen.
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An Ulster Banner in ‘ensign’ style, but with the Union Flag in the top right (rather than top left canton).
Chanterhill Road, Enniskillen
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