Owen Paterson (with one “t”) is the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who revoked Price’s licence last year after she appeared at an Easter rally but those charges have just been dismissed (BBC). This Marian Price (WP) mural on the Whiterock Road was launched on May 13 to protest her continued incarceration. The stencil is in Beechmount Street.
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The Ballymena version of Eddie The Trooper carries a UFF flag and stalks a barren landscape, free from corpses or tombstones.
Queen Street, Ballymena
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Youth mural combining republican symbols (the Bobby Sands quotation “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children” and Easter lilies) with community symbols (such as nearby Tulach Mhór [Tullymore] and The Larks) and social concerns such as the peace/anti-nuclear symbol, the blue-and-pink anti-suicide ribbon, and Banksy’s flower-thrower.
Shaws Road, Belfast
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“Over a third of all children, are growing up in poor households. About 185,000 of households are in poverty, representatin about 502,000 people. Over 148,000 of these are children.” This is in contradiction with the aims of both the Proclamation of Éırí Amach Na Cásca, 1916 – “… cherishing all of the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past” – and the Democratic Programme of An Chéad Dáıl, 1919 “… to secure that no child shall suffer hunger or cold from lack of food, clothing or shelter, but that all shall be provided with the means and facilities requisite for their proper education and training as citizens of a free and Gaelic Ireland.” The other images are of Béal Feırste 1969, Léana An Dúın 1972, and Na Staılceanna Ocraıs, 1981.
This looks very much like a Rıstead Ó Murchú creation.
Carrigart Avenue, Belfast
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The Amnesty International symbol – a candle in barbed wire – is added to a thirtieth anniversary hunger strike mural in Melvin Road, Strabane. It’s not clear if there is any official connection. The rest of the image – a blanketman over the towers of Long Kesh – is the same as in murals in Derry and in Belfast.
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“Justice for Marian Price, Candlelight Vigil, 7.30 pm, Thursday 8th March, Free Derry Wall.” For background, see Free Marian Price.
Lecky Road, Durrow Park, Durrow Park, Foyle Road, Derry
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“In proud and loving memory of Óglach Mickey Devine died 20th August 1981 in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, after 60 days on hunger-strike. Mickey was waked and buried from this house, the family home of his sister Margaret, also died 30th March 2005.”
Rathkeele Way, Derry
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“Cogús” (with a fada) means “conscience” in English. Cogús is the prisoners’ welfare unit of the RNU (Fb).
Northumberland Street, Belfast
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For the “International Day Of Peace – 21st September”, a collage of photographs from both sides of the “peace” line, the Shankill and the Falls. “Peace day – every day”.
Northumberland Street, west Belfast, has its own Visual History page.
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UDA 2nd battalion North Antrim & Londonderry emblem in Millburn, Coleraine (Linden Avenue) and a nail-up in Rosemary Place/Maple Drive, seen in M03660.
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