“No peace without justice”. Róısín McAliskey (daughter of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey) was arrested in 1996 in connection with a mortar attack on a British Army base in Germany and held in Holloway prison (London) until March 1998.
Ormeau Road, south Belfast
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The second mural by the Bogside Artists (after The Petrol Bomber) also depicts the battle of the bogside and features Bernadette Devlin (later McAliskey). Devlin was elected to the British parliament in 1969 at age 21 and was imprisoned in December for her role in the August uprising. The mural shows Devlin with a megaphone in front of protesters and Free Derry Corner. It replaces another ‘Battle of the Bogside’ mural. The Bogside Artists explain the mural and its history in this short video.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Job-seekers office named after (former) local resident Constance Markievicz in Union Street, Sligo. Now the “Intreo” unemployment centre.
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The practice of republican women banging binlids to alert the community to the presence of British soldiers is remembered in this Westland Street, Derry, mural. The celebration is to take place in Belfast on Sunday 11th; the only Sunday the 11th in 1991 was in August; the side-wall was then changed for a another march the following Sunday.
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Women of the world stand up against oppression, with the symbol for ‘female’ containing a globe. On the Falls Road/Linden Street.
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“Support Dessie Ellis” and “Ask about Dessie Ellis – No extradition” graffiti in Westland Street, Derry, at the centre of the stencils seen in Dionysia.
For basic info on Ellis, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Nancy Spero’s Notes In Time Part II comprises stencils of women from the troubles alongside poems such as Linda Anderson’s Gang-Bang, Ulster Style (about the murder of Ann Ogilby in 1974), and Roisin Cowman’s Dionysia. For history and discussion of the piece, see McGee (1993), Impact And The Visual Arts – Derry 1992 at NCAD.
For a wide shot, see Support Dessie Ellis.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry.
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Women from around the world, including Palestine, are represented in this mural in Unity flats, Belfast. Here’s Christy Moore’s recording of the Michael MacConnell song Only Our Rivers Run Free.
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A mural (unfinished) by Mo Chara on the Falls Road, Belfast, at the old Linden Street, with a barefoot woman carrying a large Tricolour and a lark overhead. Probably based on the Women’s Day (“Frauen Tag”) poster shown below, from 1914. “Heraus mit dem Frauenwahlrecht” – “Forward with women’s suffrage”. German women were given the right to vote in 1918. (The image was also used in Toronto in 1982 for International Women’s Day.)
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The slogan “For the revolution to triumph in its totality there must be emancipation of women” is attributed here to a “James MacNeill (or MacNell) but it is also found in connection with the women’s league of the Zimbabwe African National Union – see the second image among these anti-imperialism placards.
The mural shows a female soldier whose open palms support outstretched arms holding a paintbrush, a hammer, and a book. (For the same idea in Derry, see The Destructive Talents Of The RUC.)
Ballycolman estrate, Strabane.
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