“Discover the past/Aimsigh an t-am atá caite, build the future/tóg an todhchaí. Derry Walls Day, National Heritage Week.” The aim of the “wave on the wall” was to have almost 2,000 participants in red t-shirts form a chain around the wall (web).
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“The Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in the Westbank seen from the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat in the outskirts of Jeruslaem. Occupied Palestinian Terriitories, 2009. Photograph by Kai Wiedenhöfer.” Wiedenhöfer’s photograph was mounted on Free Derry Corner July 19-21, 2013, as an extension of the Wall On Wall project and as one of the events during Derry’s year as the first “UK City Of Culture”. (Interview and footage of the piece being mounted can be seen at youtube.)
The final two images show graffiti added as though part of the design of the piece: on the wall in the photo, “Let’s now get the city leaders there 2 make Ramallah the Israeli city of culture 2014 and we can all do great art for peace there” and in the bottom corner, “A paper over the cracks of imperialism production.”
For the International Brigade flag, see ¡No Pasarán!
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Here are various walls supporting Stephen Murney, an éırígí (web) activist currently in prison since December 2012 on terrorism charges (BBC-NI).
The first is in Hugo Street, to which an éırígí star was later added;
the second (from March) is on Divis Street;
the third, next to the outstretched arms of Jim Larkin, is under the advertising hoarding in Northumberland Street – in November, Larkin and the banner were replaced with the stencils in the two following images.
The final image is from the Andersonstown Road.
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Hand-painted “BRY” [Bogside Republican Youth], “No RUC” and “Support our POWs” boards but also computer-designed and -printed stickers in the Bogside, Derry. The boards are probably local productions, while the stickers probably come from the same German store responsible for the anti-fascist, “Irish republican solidarity” and “Good night, loyalist pride” stickers (see Northern Ireland World). The Facebook sticker is presumably for the store or for antifa; as far as we know, BRY has never had a Facebook page or internet presence; the web address “www.irishrepublicansolidarity.info/” is defunct.
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“End internment”. St Patrick is supposed to have driven all of the snakes out of Ireland, but the work is never done. The “snakes” in question are Theresa Villiers (minister for Northern Ireland in the current Conservative government) and David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party and minister for Justice in Stormont. The issue in question is (probably) the denial of compassionate parole for Marian Price (Oireachtas); “Prisons Crisis Group” published a pamphlet ‘Free Marian Price’ (Socialist Worker).
Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry. (Visual History)
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32CSM placard on the railings around Free Derry Corner expressing solidarity with Palestine. On the right is “the petrol bomber” 13 year-old Paddy Coyle.
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For the anniversary of his death, a poster of Volunteer Eamonn Lafferty is placed alongside the ogham stone and dolmen to the 1st battalion, Derry Brigade, IRA. Lafferty was killed on August 18th, 1971 – there are both a mural and a headstone to his memory in Kildrum Gardens.
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Proprietor of the Mill Diner on the Crumlin Road Tommy McAuley was shot by the UVF in 1987 in retaliation for the Enniskillen bombing. His case was examined by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) who reported (in 2011) that the police did not question suspects identified by witnesses and the family lobbied the ombudsman to reopen the case (U.tv). The flowers and poster are on the front of the closed diner.
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“100 years – 1912-20212 – the Balmoral Review”. Debate on the third Home Rule bill long preceded its formal introduction on April 11th. Winston Churchill and others travelled to Belfast in February to speak in its favour (see RIC At Celtic Park) and on April 9th (Easter Tuesday) 100,000 unionists rallied in Balmoral show grounds for review by Bonar Law, the head of the Conservative party – here is a postcard of the Wicklow contingent. (For more photographs, see Balmoral Review Review.) The 2012 commemoration drew about 10,000 people to Ormeau Park (Slugger).
The hoarding is in Lawnbrook Avenue, the small boards are in Conway Street, Belfast.
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Room 101 was a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in George Orwell’s novel 1984. For women, the trials include racism, poverty, violence, injustice, sexism, trafficking. On the front side are posters protesting Marian Price‘s 295 days in isolation.
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