The UVF mural and the boards (on the fence) in Kinsale Park, Caw, Londonderry are decked out in a variety of flags for the summer season.
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Summer Regalia
painted board
BRY – RIRA – CIRA
This series of images comes from the Lecky Road, Derry underpass. Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, and Tom McElwee get individual boards. Unusually, both the Real IRA and Continuity IRA are included in the final panel. As can be seen in the wide shot, to the left are Roll Of Honour and BRY 1969.
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Remember The Hunger Strikers
For the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, portraits of the ten deceased strikers were displayed along Meetinghouse Street, Strabane.
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Fountain Graffiti
UFF graffiti from Kennedy Place and Wapping Lane in the Fountain area of Londonderry. Both taigs (Catholics) and the RUC are warned to keep out. If you know what “RFC” stands for, please comment or get in touch.
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New Name, No Change!
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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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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