“Supergrass trials amount to a more sophisticated form of internment. Failed 1980, again 2007, doomed 2010.” In 2010 there were one | two trials involving UVF grasses, the latter involving Ian Stewart from Ballyearl Crescent.
Ballyearl Drive, Newtownabbey
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2010 image of the New Mossley mosaic (2009) in Ballyearl Drive, with various UVF insignia above from previous murals. “This mosaic reflects the cultural & industrial heritage of the area. New Mossley Community Group is proud to be part of this project and hope it gives pleasure to everyone. We would like to thank the Arts Council and Groundwork for their help and support. Unveiled by Jeanette Ervine, Dawn Purvis MLA, Mena Mitchell 17th January 2009.”
The mosaic shows/references Lillian Bland, the first woman to fly solo (1910); Pattersons Spade Mill; Mossley Mill, 50 years old in 2008; the 36th and 16th Divisions of World War I; local youth groups. The work was developed by artist Martin McClure.
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“When you go home/Tell them of us/And say for your tomorrow/We gave our today.” is a WWII epitaph by John Maxwell Edmonds in Kohima Cemetery. It is shown here on a plaque on a stone in New Mossley community garden (also the site of a time capsule).
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“End political internment – 38 days.” “38 days” is added to the graffiti previously in support Terry McCafferty. The prisoner in question is Martin Corey, member of Republican Sınn Féın and allegedly involved with the CIRA. The graffiti (and RSF stencil) is at the top of the New Lodge Road, Belfast.
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“Support The Republican POWs In Maghaberry” – republican graffiti in Hartwell Place, Belfast.
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Republican graffiti in the New Lodge, next to a series of murals on young people’s rights.
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“Rosa Parks 1913-2005. She sat down so that we could stand up. Mother of the civil rights movement.” Parks refused to give up her seat in the “colored” section of the bus to a white passenger on December 1st, 1955. In support of her arrest, the Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott was begun.
Board in Lepper Street, Belfast, with support from Tar Isteach, Unison, and CEP.
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Madden’s Bar in Berry Street (Belfast city centre) has a traditional music session up to three nights a week. The fiddler is Art Lundy – the original photograph is by Frankie Quinn (web).
With “Fáılte ısteach” in nine other languages.
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“The people’s taxis”, meaning the people of nationalist west Belfast, as is clear from the imagery surrounding the WBTA terminal entrance: Fionn eating the salmon of knowledge (while standing on the Giant’s Causeway), The Limerick Piper (transposed to Belfast’s Cave Hill) by John Patrick Haverty (1794-1854) (also reproduced in this Ardoyne mural), and a copy of Jim Fitzpatrick’s Sadb.
King Street/Francis Street, Belfast
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Republican graffiti in Christian Place, next to the INLA plaque at the junction with Albert Street, Belfast.
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