A line from Tone Is Coming Back Again, painted in Twinbrook in 1981: “Too long we’ve borne, with smouldering wrath, the cursed alien laws.” Tone’s profile is drawn on the tricolour in the middle.
unknown street (Twinbook), Belfast.
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A fist clutching barbed wire and an bound “H” breaking apart, with three demands: “No prison uniform, no prison work, free association”.
unknown street (Rosnareen?), Belfast
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“IRA – We aim to be free”. Oakman Street, Belfast
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1988 version of Beware Of A Risen People, in Summerhill Road, Belfast.
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“RUC you may beware, the impact grenade is everywhere.”
Republican graffiti on the Falls Road (where, exactly?) Belfast.
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“Maggie’s Hero’s Shoot Innocent Civilian In Back”. The specific reference is unknown. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Ian Paisley in 1986 (in the aftermath of the Anglo-Irish Agreement) declared that we were on the verge of “civil war”. The reference to Canada is obscure – Paisley went to Canada at the time of the UWC strike in 1974; he also had a brother living there. On the left-hand side of the wall is the “latest from Casement Park: IRA 2, SAS [0]” – perhaps a reference to the killings of Corporals Wood and Howes at the funeral of IRA volunteer Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh.
For the mural see Stad Maggie Anois 1986 | 1987.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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“Super Prod Michael ‘Rambo’ Stone is a hero”. Stone killed three mourners (two civilians and an IRA volunteer) at the funeral of the Gibraltar 3. His actions are added to a score-sheet of IRA deaths, alongside the three in Gibraltar and eight in Loughgall. In the bottom image, “Enniskillen will be remembered”: Stone said one of his motivations was the Enniskillen bombing, in which the IRA killed eleven people.
Unknown street, Belfast – please get in touch if you know the location.
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Loyalist graffiti (Glencairn area, unknown street), referencing the three people killed by Michael Stone at the funeral of the Gibraltar 3 in Milltown cemetery.
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Two pieces of graffiti related to Michael Stone’s attack on the March 16th joint funeral of the Gibraltar Three, at which he killed three people. On the left, “Fuck the Blarney [stone], kiss the Michael “Stone””; on the right, “Rambo Stone!” with a crude drawing. Unknown street, Belfast – please get in touch if you recognize the location.
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