IRA in the colours of the Tricolour on the light-poles of Springhill Avenue/Springhill Heights, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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IRA
painted board
Disband RUC
RUC officers in riot gear fire plastic bullets.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01433
Victory To The IRA
IRA volunteers on manoeuvres with rifles and RPG, while British Army helicopter flies to base (possibly Divis Tower).
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01432
We Will Never Forget
A trio of volunteers with Long Kesh in the background fire a funeral volley over photographic portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
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M01434
Francis Hughes
A vintage board from 1991, still visible ten years later on Corrody Road, Derry: hunger striker Francis Hughes “died 12th May 1981”.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01419
Tommy Crossan For Political Status
“Support the prisoner candidate” – former PIRA volunteer and CIRA leader Tommy Crossan stood from Maghaberry Prison as a RSF candidate for West Belfast in 2001 (Éıre Nua) and urged voters to “spoil your vote” – see the posters on the wall; also Bennie et al p. 59).
In 2014 he would be killed after his expulsion from CIRA – see RIP Vol Tommy Crossan.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01501
Peter Meddlesome
Peter Mandelson served as NI Secretary from October 1999 (replacing Mo Mowlam) to January 2001. As such, he oversaw the creation of the Assembly and of the PSNI. His departure (on 2001-01-24) is greeted with celebration and song – “Slán Abhaıle”.
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The Castlerea Five
“Merry Christmas & a happy new year to the Castlerea Five from the people of Belfast.” The Castlerea Five were five republican prisoners not released in 2000 (under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement) (An Phoblacht). They were jailed in Roscommon for involvement in the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 (four of manslaughter, one of conspiracy to rob). Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01498
RUC Must Go
The “old model” RUC is a combination of policeman, Orangeman, and (loyalist) paramilitary, affiliations the “new model” lacks.
Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01500
Join Ógra Shınn Féın
The Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) logo is a Molotov cocktail with an Easter lily as a fuse. Divis Street, Belfast
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