Greengrocer Harry Holland was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver by teens in Norfolk Drive (just above the Milltown roundabout where this board is positioned) on September 12th, 2007. Stephen McKee, Patrick Crossan, and Niamh McKee (who was granted bail) would later be sentenced for murder, affray, and assault charges relating the crime. The Glen Road shop would remain open until 2018.
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“This statue was jointly commissioned by the ICTU & Laganside Corporation. Unveiled on the 8th of May 2006 by David Begg, General Secretary Irish Congress Of Trade Unions. ‘The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us arise’ – James Larkin. Sculpted by Anto Brennan, erected by Open Windows Production Team Gerard Brennan, Gerry McCullough, Joe Morrissey. Architect Des Grehan.” Donegall Street Place, Belfast. See also No Pasarán.
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“Henry Joy McCracken 1767-1798, United Irishman, born in a house near this site”. Henry Joy McCracken was the son of Ann Joy, daughter of Francis Joy, linen manufacturer and founder of the Belfast Newsletter. Henry was born in High Street, which is at the northern end of the entry.
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“Suicide is no solution – reach out” to any of the four agencies whose numbers are given: Contact Youth, Samaritans, Corpus Christi, and Holy Trinity Counselling. “In memory of Michael, Stephen, Fiona.”
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2008 image of the three Ballymurphy IRA volunteers mural seen previously in 2005.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
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“Labhaır cıbé Gaeılge atá agat” (“speak whatever Irish you have”; “Is fearr Gaeılge bhrıste ná Béarla clıste” (“Broken Irish is better than clever English”; “Rally for Irish Language Act this Saturday June 9th @ Cultúrlann 1 pm”.
The mural in the background is No Plastic Bullets – see 1995 and 2004.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
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In the Ballymurphy memorial garden, Denis McCauley’s name has been added to the list of deceased ‘Civilians’ and Robert Murphy’s name to the ‘Roll Of Remembrance’. For images of the other panels, see the 2006 post on the garden.
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The New Barnsley memorial garden is greatly expanded over the single plaque from 2005, to include a larger main plaque, a smaller one commemorating early resistance “Sheas sıad le chéıle” [They stood together], and wrought-iron gates with a phoenix and “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”.
Update: painted gates in 2015:
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Stone squares carved with images and words such as “racism” and “respect” on the side wall of the Credit Union at the junction of Springfield and Whiterock Roads. “Upper Springfield Development Company, Ltd. Launched by Gerry Adams, 28th Sept 2006.” “Environment Achievement Award. Sponsored by West Belfast Partnership 2006.”
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