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Volunteers From The New Barnsley Area

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The New Barnsley memorial garden is greatly expanded over the single plaque from 2005, to include a larger main plaque, a smaller one commemorating early resistance “Sheas sıad le chéıle” [They stood together], and wrought-iron gates with a phoenix and “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”.

Update: painted gates in 2015:

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Bill Of Rights

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1998’s Good Friday (or: Belfast) Agreement called for a human rights commission to advise on a bill of rights. Ten years later (in 2008) the commission presented its report. The list above is from The Community Foundation [For] Northern Ireland. Comhairle Phobail na bhFál (Falls Community Council): “Life; freedom of thought and religion; peaceful assembly; freedom from torture, cruelty; national self-determination; fair conditions of work; join a trade union; social security; maternity leave; be protected from exploitation; housing; education; participate in cultural life.” (A further ten years later – 2018 – there is still no bill.)

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Free The Derry Four

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This “Derry Four” is Gary Donnelly, Michael Gallagher, Martin O’Neill and Paddy McDaid, arrested on charges of RIRA membership (Irish Times). (The original “Derry Four” were arrested for the 1979 murder of Steven Kirby of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (Update 2019-01.)) Sınn Féın were accused by Creggan residents with removing graffiti in support of the four (Derry Journal). The board underneath is ‘Free Seamus Doherty‘.

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Rex Bar

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This is the scene in the outdoor seating to the Rex Bar on the Shankill Road. The arch is dedicated to the 36th (Ulster) Division at the Battle Of The Somme. On the side of the betting office, Carson signs the Ulster Covenant (Mo2454), Carson reviews the Ulster Volunteers (M02453), and a farmer’s wife protects the farm, both during WWI and from “sectarian attack from across the border” (M02452). The Union Flag to the left is in progress.

Shankill Road at (formerly) Moscow Street

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Sleeping Where No Shadows Fall

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“In loving memory of military commander Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag, born 1970, died 2000. Sleeping where no shadows fall.” The plaques and the photograph in the centre are new (see previously 2007). The upper plaque [M04257] reads “This mural is dedicated to the memory of Stevie (Top Gun) McKeag from the officers & members of C Company 2nd Battalion UFF. Gone but not forgotten. Quis separabit.” The lower plaque [M04256] reads “In loving memory of our big brother Steven McKeag from jackie, Mary & Melissa. Simply the best.”

Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, Belfast

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