“Many suffer so that someday future generations may live in justice and peace.”
Portraits of Nelson Mandela and Bobby Sands are presented side by side, both smiling, in front of the flags of (post-apartheid) South Africa and the Republic of Ireland.
Bogside, Derry.
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Tomás [Thomas] Ashe Mellon was recently (June, 2014) charged with directing the activities of the New IRA (which was formed in 2012 from the Real IRA and Republican Action Against Drugs) via a letter that was being smuggled into Maghaberry by William McDonnell and denied bail; in March (2015) he admitted possession of the note (and received 40 months) but pleaded not guilty to the charge of directing terrorism (Derry Daily | BBC | Derry Daily).
This board protesting Mellon’s “intern[ment] by Britain” is in Westland Street, in Derry’s Bogside.
Update: In July, Mellon was acquitted of directing terrorism (Irish News).
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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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The bloody hand-prints of children represent the genocide being waged by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza.
Springhill Park, Strabane.
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“In one week, Israeli air strikes have killed 173 people – 35 children, 26 women, 112 men, 18 from one family [Guardian], over 130 civillians [sic].”
John Street, Omagh
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Springhill Park, Strabane
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Carlos Latuff’s (ig) image of an Israeli Apache helicopter firing a “hellfire” missile at a Palestinian child has been reproduced in Springhill Park, Strabane, by John Carlin and others (Highland Radio).
It was also reproduced in Springhill, west Belfast, by Mo Chara Kelly.
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“Support Israel, God’s chosen people. Jesus lives.” Graffiti in May Street, Waterside, Londonderry.
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This is an end-of-life image – or perhaps a preparation-for-repainting image – of the mural at the corner of Ardoyne Avenue. The mural is still is reasonable shape (compared to 2008) but the 34 medallions with portraits to local volunteers and activists have been removed.
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This is a new board at the Crumlin end of Brompton Park – launched on August 6th by Gerry Kelly and members of the Cliftonville football team – in support of Palestine and Gaza, and in particular protesting the deaths of the four Bakr children on the beach at the port of Gaza on July 16th (see Child Killers). The image of the man carrying the boy is from Reuters.
See also: a Where Is The World? mural on the International Wall.
Painted by Mickey Doherty and mounted in Brompton Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast.
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