The Easter lily is the symbol on the 1916 Rising. The stamen is yellow, but typically painted orange so that the colours of the parts match the colours of the Tricolour.
Ardoyne Road, north Belfast
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The Holy Cross dispute of 2001 (WP) is compared to desegregation in the southern United States in the wake of Brown v. Board Of Education in 1957 (WP). The left panel is a rendition of an iconic image of Hazel Bryan hectoring Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine (WP), in Little Rock, Arkansas. The orange sweaters of the central children echo that of the child in the red coat in the (almost entirely black-and-white) Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List. “Everyone has the right to live free from sectarian harassment.”
Estoril Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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“Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (from Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa), with the Tricolour and Sunburst (flag of the junior IRA, the Fianna) on pikes.
Brompton Park, north Belfast
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Óglaıgh na hÉıreann/IRA boards on the corner of Crumlin Road and Brompton Park, in Ardoyne, Belfast.
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A cartoon British soldier (in the style of Cormac) is given the boot. Sponsored by “Ardoyne Ógra Shınn Féın”.
Brompton Park, north Belfast
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“Time for the truth”. Two of the New Lodge Six (James Sloan, James McCann) were killed by the UDA outside a bar and four (Tony Campbell, Ambrose Hardy, Brendan Maguire, John Loughran) among the crowd that gathered by British Army snipers from their positions on top of the flats, using night-vision sights, February 3rd-4th, 1973.
Donore Court, New Lodge, north Belfast
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IRA volunteer Patsy Duffy was shot by undercover British Army soldiers at an arms cache in Maureen Avenue, Derry, near the spot of this plaque in his memory.
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The emblem of Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) is the Molotov cocktail with Easter lily as a fuse. Dove Gardens, Derry.
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A board in Dove Gardens, Derry, makes allegations of collusion between the police and UDA loyalist paramilitaries, by providing information to a “loyalist death squad”.
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The portraits are of Tony Nolan, Joseph Downey, Frank Fitzsimons, Joey Surgenor, Paul Marlowe, Jim Templeton, and Brendan Davison, all of whom were IRA volunteers (Templeton, aged 15, was in the Fianna) and all of whom died in and around the Markets. (Their names would be added to the mural when it was repainted.) This mural replaces Firing Party and is based on the photograph included in Victory IRA.
Friendly Way, Markets, south Belfast
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