This crude hunger strike mural, with hand-written names of the ten deceased men and a line-drawing of a lark, is in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Political Status Tree
A mural in-progress of a tree is (presumably) vandalised with “Political status now – RIRA”.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Roll Of Honour
A “roll of honour” (faintly visible at the top) to the 1981 hunger strikers, with a volunteer firing a rifle, is unfinished in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Remember Bloody Sunday
A dove/lark in celtic style and the oak-leaf representing the city of Derry comprise the emblem of Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972. See previously: Bloody Sunday ’72 | Domhnach Na Fola
Rossville Street, Derry
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They May Kill The Revolutionary
“They may kill the revolutionary but not the revolution.” The imagery of the open-throated volunteers goes back to a 1981 poster. The 11 portraits are perhaps those of the people listed on the roll of honour at Constance Markievicz House, a short distance away: Martin Skillen, Gerard Fennell, Sean McDermott, Paul Best, Pearse Jordan, Terence O’Neill, John Dempsey, Martin Forsythe, Tom Magill, Sean Savage. Kevin McCracken.
Norglen Parade, Belfast
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Hedge Row School
“Leabhaır an teanga Ghaeılge lıom” [“Speak Irish with me”]. Catholic (and Presbyterian) education was prohibited by the penal laws (WP) and particularly the Education Act of 1695 (WP) – this is probably what’s on the notice on the left-hand tree. Schooling by Catholics (in Irish) nonetheless took place, in covert houses and outhouses, as well as in fields and hedge-rows. The Act was repealed in 1782, provided the teacher took an oath of allegiance to the Crown.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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The Mass Rock
This mural commemorates the repression of Catholicism and use of mass rocks as secret locations in the days of the penal laws, c. 1650-1800 under and after Cromwell.
“Is í an charraıg seo ıonad adhartha ar náıthreacha, áıt ar cothaıodh an creıdeamh do na glúnta a bhí le teacht.” [“This rock is our ancestors’ place of worship, where religion was preserved for the generations that were to come.”]
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast. This image would also be reproduced in Andersonstown.
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By Any Means Necessary
“We declare our right on this Earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being, in this society, on this Earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” The quote comes from Malcolm X’s speech at the founding of the Organization For Afro-American Unity, in which the phrase “by any means necessary” is used repeatedly. “Malcolm X: Inter-national. By Mike Alewitz/Labor Art & Mural project, USA. Special thanks to: Sean Colligan, Bill R, Mickey Doc, Danny Devenny & Radical Artists, Ardoyne Fleadh Comm.”
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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Serving The Community Through Transport
“This mural honours black taxi drivers who were murdered in this conflict”, including the eight named in the ‘roll of honour’ on the right: Michael Duggan, Jim Green, Harry Muldoon, Paddy McAllister, Caoımmhın [sic] McBradaıgh (killed at Milltown), Thomas Hughes, Hugh Magee, Padraıg Ó Cleırigh. “In memory of all taxi drivers, public and private, who were murdered by loyalist/British crown forces during the conflict serving their community through transport.”
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast. For a similar mural on the Falls, see Serving The Community.
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Comms
Two of the three comms (“communications”, messages by H-Block prisoners on tobacco paper or toilet paper and smuggled from wing to wing or to the outside) reproduced in this mural describe the decision to undertake the hunger strike (written by Bobby Sands) and the reaction to his death (from Ardoyne man Bik McFarlane to “Brownie” – Gerry Adams). The three describes a beating received by Ardoyne resident and blanket man Brendan McClenaghan.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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