Three from Ballycolman Road, Strabane: “PSNI – New name, no change!”; “BRY rule” and “INLA”; and RIRA and “RUC expose collusion” boards.
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New Name, No Change!
painted board
5th Battalion Bushmills
UDA/UFF/UYM boards – and a “Britain First” Combat-18 sticker – at the entrance to Huey Crescent, Bushmills.
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Hunger Strike 25th
Although the centre says “1981 – 2006” Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are included alongside the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
An identical board was hung in Garron Road, Glenariff [M02834].
Ramoan Road, Ballycastle.
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Staılc Ocraıs
IRA volunteer Michael Gaughan died in Parkhurst prison in 1974 after 64 days on hunger strike (staılc ocraıs). He was force-fed seventeen times during the strike and his family alleged that he died from food stuck in a punctured lung. The practice was ended after Gaughan’s death.
Frank Stagg was on the Parkhurst hunger strike with Gaughan, and another in Long Lartin prison, and a third in Wakefield in December 1975. He died after 62 days on February 12th, 1976.
Gaughan’s coffin was draped with the Tricolour used to bury Terence McSwiney in 1920, whose famous quote is at the top of the board: “It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will achieve ultimate victory.”
Falls Road, west Belfast
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REM 80/81
Three green “H”s on the Falls Road, Belfast (at the top of Donegall Road) encouraging remembrance of the two hunger strikes, in 1980 and 1981.
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Free The Castlerea Five!
The name of Michael O’Neill – one of the still-imprisoned Castlrea Five – is changed to “Michael Wings”. The reference is unknown; it is probably a local youth making his mark. Previously seen in 2003
Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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A Web Of Double Agents
“Collusion – a web of double agents, death squads and deceit.” The legs of the spider are marked “PSNI/RUC”, “Special Branch”, “RHC”, “UFF”, “MI5/MI6”, “LVF”, “UDR/UDA”, “UVF”. The web is emanating from the door to 10 Downing Street in the top left.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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RIRA
Small boards on the electricity poles of Bridge Street, Strabane: “RIRA” [Real IRA], “PUP-RUC Linked” (seen in 2002), and “RUC expose collusion” in Ballycolman Ave.
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Forward To Freedom
Republican volunteer seen previously (and in better condition) in 2002.
Fountain Street, Strabane
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For Irish Freedom In The West Tyrone Area
“In proud and loving memory of all those who gave their lives for Irish freedom in the West Tyrone area” with portraits of 15 IRA volunteers and Sınn Féın’s Jim McAleer and a pair of assault rifles at the bottom of the Celtic cross.
Fountain Street, Strabane
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