“Saoırse, ceart, agus síocháın” (“Freedom, justice, and peace”). Sınn Féın electoral board on Falls Road/Linden Street. 2005 was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party.
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
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In 2004, Sınn Féın took the third European parliament seat from the SDLP. This election board for candidate Baırbe de Brún – with support from Gerry Adams – is on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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Ballymurphy Road, Belfast, is unofficially renamed after the third 1981 hunger striker: “Raymond McCreesh Road/Bóthar Réamann Mhıc Raoıs”.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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This anti-collusion board above the Sinn Féin office on the Falls Road sources the problem to 10 Downing Street, home of the UK Prime Minister. The same “State Sponsored Murder” board appeared in Andersonstown. The partially obscured plaques are of Pat McGeown (middle) and Loughran-McBride-O’Dwyer (right).
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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Castlerea Prison is in Roscommon, Ireland. Five IRA prisoners convicted of killing Garda Jerry McCabe during a robbery in 1996 – Pearse McCauley, Michael O’Neill, John Quinn, Jerry Sheehy, Kevin Walsh – were not released in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. A campaign for their release was organised under the slogan “Free the Castlerea Five!”. Above is a Sinn Féin call to a rally to “expose collusion – state sponsored murder. Fírınne Anoıs – Truth Now!” Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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This Bloody Sunday info board in Rossville Street, Derry, is directed at an international audience, being “dedicated to all those throughout the world who have struggled, suffered imprisonment and lost their lives in the pursuit of liberty, justice and civil rights” and focusing as much on the Widgery report (“branded a whitewash by human rights groups throughout the world”) and continued demands for justice as on the events of the day.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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2002 saw the 30th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Every year a march goes from Creggan shops to Rossville Street. The board above, on the rear of Free Derry Corner, shows the tread of a boot trampling on a daffodil with Earth in the centre.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Blanketman Hugh Rooney and the names of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers on the rear of Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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“Votáıl Adams” and the rest of the Sınn Féın’s team. Both Westminster and local elections were held on June 7th, 2001.
This is the first photographic election ad from Sınn Féın in the collection. Up to this point, there have only been painted boards.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Board on the rear of Free Derry Corner from the Bogside And Brandywell Women’s Groups: “Zero tolerance to violence against women – there are no grey areas.” With some verses from Another Woman by Carol Geneya Kaplan.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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