The Northern Ireland Policing Board was founded in 2001 to oversee the PSNI. It was initially constituted with three SDLP members, depicted here as puppets of the Special Branch. Sinn Féin would not take seats on the board until 2007.
Bridge Street, Strabane
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Here are two nail-ups from Ballycolman Avenue, Strabane: “Fuck the queen” and “RIRA” on one pole, and a “sniper at work” road sign on the other.
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Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara inspiring republicans in Ballycolman, Strabane.
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The PUP is the Progressive Unionist Party, a left-wing party associated with the UVF. Notable leaders have included Hugh Smyth and David Ervine. Below and on the other side are two “road signs”: No Watchtowers and ‘No RUC’.
Bridge Street, Strabane
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Each year the residents of the upper Fountain put the names of the 13 apprentice boys (and images related to the siege of Derry) on the backs and the garden fences of their homes.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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Here are six images of the hunger strikers mural in Mountpottinger Road, Belfast. The ten portraits are on cut wooden boards while the rest is painted. On the far right (image 5) is a “spirit of freedom” lark and the names of the ten deceased 1981 strikers. In the centre (image 3) is blanket man Hugh Rooney.
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Here is the scene in Clowney Street, Belfast, in 2002: the (third? version of the) phoenix mural is 12 years old, and the funeral volley mural above it (seen in 2001) has lost one of its boards.
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This is a 2002 image of the board in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, for the 20th anniversary of the (1980) hunger strikes in Long Kesh and Armagh Women’s prison. Previously seen in 2001.
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2002 image of the republican prisoners board in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast. In addition to the 1981 hunger strikers and Stagg and Gaughan, the mural mentions Paddy Joe Crawford, Francis Dodds, Patrick Teer, Teddy Campbell, Hugh Coney, Jim Moyne, Henry Henry, Sean Bateson, Pol Kinsella (all from Long Kesh), Tom Smyth, Brendan Seery, Paddy Kelly (Portlaoise), Noel Jenkinson and Sean O’Conaill (who died in English prisons).
“I ndıl chuımhne na gcımí poblachtánacha a fuaır bás ı ngéıbheann ı rıth na coımhlınte reatha seo.” [In memory of the republican prisoners who died in captivity in the course of this ongoing (lit. running) contest.]
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The flag of the Basque Country/Euskadi flies above the hunger striker memorial (with Bobby Sands’s Rhythm Of Time) in Rockdale Street, Belfast. For more, see the 2001 image.
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