Above is a recent (2014-09) mural by Damian Walker in the New Lodge, in support of republican prisoners in Maghaberry, showing a single bloodied republican prisoner surrounded by three baton-wielding officers. Sponsored the 32-County Sovereignty Movement (web).
Replaces: Damn Your Concessions, England
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A Che Guevara quote – “I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting” – unifies two panels bearing masked men firing funeral volleys, Irish and Palestinian shields, and “Our day will come” and “freedom” in both Irish and Arabic.
Carlisle Road/Queen’s Parade, below Teach Chú Chulaınn in the New Lodge flats
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Stencil of the iconic Che over his father’s words: “[In my son’s veins flowed the] Blood of an Irish rebel”. (See previously: Che Guevara Lynch)
Below Teach Oısín in the New Lodge
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“Cumann Na mBan” in Irish is “the women’s organization/council/society” in English. The organization in question is the republican paramilitary group which was founded on April 2, 1914 and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014.
The mural is at the bottom of Teach Na bhFıann/Fianna House (formerly Dill House) in the New Lodge.
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Éırígí (web) support for the PFLP (Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine – WP). For more on the “skyjacker” Leila Khaled, see the mural featuring her in Hugo Street.
Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast
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“The Guilford 4, the Birmingham 6, now the Craigavon 2”. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
The Birmingham 6 were sentenced to life sentences in August, 1975, but their convictions were deemed unsafe in 1991. The Guilford 4 were sentenced in October, 1975, but their convictions were deemed unsafe in 1989. The Craigavon 2 – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were sentenced in 2012 to terms of 18 and 25 years, respectively, for the murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll; their appeals so far have been thrown out (Hearty 2015 pdf).
Free Derry Corner, Derry (Visual History). The simple graffiti is in Bishop Street; the other pieces are in the Brandywell.
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Here are various anti-Agreement messages, from Foyle Hill:
“Not a bullet, not an ounce – IRA” Iniscarn Crescent
“Free all POWs” – Tyrconnell Street
Easter Rising commemoration – Eastway
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything! End British internment.” IRPWA (web) board in Iniscarn Road
RNU “End political policing” – Rathlin Drive
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The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted of and unsuccessfully appealed (Guardian | BBC) the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll; campaigners on Facebook (one | two) continue to call for their release.
The graffiti and stencilled portraits of the pair are in the Bogside, Derry.
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Without names, on July 29th:
Whitewashing of the previous ‘Sarcoma yellow’, July 28th:
Four children from the Baker (or: Bakr) clan run from an Israeli rocket bearing the Star of David, leaving behind their football on the beach at the port of Gaza. Ismael Mohamed Bakr (9), Ahed Atef Bakr (10), Zakaria Ahed Bakr (10), and Mohamed Ramez Bakr (11) all died; three other children and one adult were wounded. (For more background, see Stad An Slad/Stop The Slaughter).
The two versions shown here – from July 29th and August 1st – differ only in the later inclusion of the names and ages of the children along the bottom.
‘Free Derry Corner’ has its own Visual History page | Click here for other Gaza-related entries.
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The ‘Vote Tommy Doherty’ portion of this RNU mural on Northumberland Street (Visual History) has been replaced with a pro-Palestinian message – a clenched fist in the colours of Palestine between the emblems of the RNU and the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine. The Arabic reads “Our day is coming”/”Tıocfaidh ár lá”.
يومنا قادم
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