Political commentary on the Cupar Way “peace” line (near Lanark Way): “Stick Haass up your ass” — a reference to the negotiations which were taking place around Christmas and New Year’s, led by Richard Haass, into the “legacy issues” of flags and emblems (including murals) and parades. No agreement was reached. (BBC | pdf | BBC)
December update: the Stormont House Agreement covered many of the same areas (WP).
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This piece of aspirational graffiti is on the Cupar Way “peace” line. “Free us all .. from the prison .. of mistrust .. misunderstanding .. and misdeeds.” It goes back to the the very first wild-style writing jam on the wall, in April 2009.
See also: Fuck You And Your Patronising Slogans.
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“IRA” has been added to the tricolour that used to read “Get off my island“, with “All touts shall be executed” below – Lone Moor Road.
The “Free all POWs” graffiti is in Tyrconnell Street, Derry.
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Graffiti in Fanad Drive, Derry. The same message was painted last year, with other anti-Agreement graffiti, on the city walls and in Creggan.
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Here is a gallery of (post-Agreement) republican graffiti in the Brandywell, including “$inn £einn”, “Remember the 14” victims of Bloody Sunday, and a quote from Patrick Pearse: “Beware of the thing that is coming”, from the poem ‘The Rebel’, which ends “And I say to my people’s masters: Beware,/Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,/Who shall take what ye would not give.”
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Here is a gallery of (post-Agreement) republican graffiti from Creggan, including references to the 14 deceased of Bloody Sunday (1972), republican prisoners, and possible (non-)prosecution of British soldiers.
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Here is a selection of graffiti (and crude drawings, of the INLA emblem and a petrol bomb) from the Bogside, Derry: “Brits out now – IRA”, “BRY/RSYM”, “Erin go bragh – INLA/IRSP – beır bua”, “PSNI scum”
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“Nor meekly serve my time” (in red on the right) is from Francie Brolly’s ‘The H-Block Song’ (youtube) and the “H” at the centre of “Maghaberry” has been painted in red.
At the end of the footbridge from Divis to the city centre, off Durham Street, Belfast.
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“Glencairn demands civil rights for all Protestants now!” and “RIP Maggie Thatcher, the Iron Lady – true legend.” Thatcher died on April 8th, 2013. The specific reason for the tarp, if any, is unknown; it might be the ban on marching past the Ardoyne shops (CSMonitor).
Forthriver Road, Belfast.
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Reaction to the death (on Monday, April 8th) of Margaret Thatcher, U.K. Prime Minister 1979-1990 (WP), in an alley below Divis tower, between Divis Street and Clonfaddan Crescent.
Also in Clonfadden Crescent can be seen a plaque commemorating the opening of “Divis Development Phase 1” by “Gerry Adams M.P” on May 16th, 1991. “Bua an phobıal” [“Bua an phobaıl”, “The community’s victory”] It took thirteen years of campaigning before the Executive agreed to knock down the old flats in 1986 (Alfaro & Roulston 2021).
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