Nine hooded republican volunteers, employing an assortment of weapons – rifles, RPG launcher, drogue bomb, machine gun – against a rising sun in South Link, Belfast. “We will have our day.” The trio in the bottom right corner are familiar from other murals, such as this one in Strabane.
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Tricoloured quotations from James Connolly and Patrick Pearse below the image of a kneeling volunteer with RPG launcher: “The great appear great because we are on our knees – let us rise” and “As long as Ireland is unfree, the only [honourable] attitude for Irishmen and [Irish]women is an attitude of revolt.”
Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast.
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The words of Padraıg Mac Pıaraıs’s poem Mıse Éıre are included alongside the portraits of the seven signatories to the 1916 Proclamation. It includes the line “Great is my glory, I who bore brave Cú Chulaınn” and Cú Chulaınn is pictured on the right, in the death pose made famous by Oliver Sheppard in a statue installed in the GPO in 1935. Painted by Mo Chara.
Mıse Éıre: Sıne mé ná an Chaılleach Bhéarra.
Mór mo ghlóır: Mé a rug Cú Chulaınn cróga.
Mór mo náır: Mo chlann féın a dhíol a máthaır.
[Mór mo phıan: Bıthnaımhde do mo shíorchıapadh.]
[Mór mo bhrón: D’éag an dream ınar chuıreas dóchas.]
Mıse Éıre: Uaıgní mé ná an Chaılleach Bhéarra.
Norglen Gardens, west Belfast. For the completed work, see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
(This image is dated 1989 but is probably from 1988.)
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“… but employs the argument of force.” Mural against the censorship of Sinn Féin, painted by Mo Chara at the Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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Between the St. Andrew’s Saltire and the Ulster Banner, the St. George’s Cross appears in this mural as part of the flag of the Orange Order (though the purple star is absent). Percy Place, Belfast.
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1688-1690 are the dates of William III’s conquests in Ireland, uniting it with England (the St. George’s Cross on the right) and Scotland (the St. Andrew’s Saltire on the left). Percy Place, Belfast
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“All the loyalist prisoners” here means UVF, UDA, YCV, and PAF. Previously: the same mural in 1988.
Percy Place, west Belfast.
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75th anniversary (1912-1987) mural of the Ulster Volunteers on the Shankill Road, Belfast. For the photgraph on which the mural is based, see the 1988 version.
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1989 version of a UDA mural on a yard wall in Percy Place, showing some deterioriation when compared to the 1988 version.
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A detail from the UDA/UDF ‘Shutting the gates of Derry’ mural in Canmore Street that we first saw last year.
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