Kieran Nugent, Pat McGeown, and Clonard blanket man Alex Comerford are the lead names on this plaque in Beechmount Grove, joined by the deceased 1981 hunger strikers as well as Gaughan and Stagg.
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IRA volunteer (and marksman in the Irish Army) John Starrs was killed in a gun battle with the British Army in William Street, near his plaque in Chamberlain Street, Derry
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Here is the scene in Clowney Street, Belfast, in 2002: the (third? version of the) phoenix mural is 12 years old, and the funeral volley mural above it (seen in 2001) has lost one of its boards.
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This is a 2002 image of the board in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, for the 20th anniversary of the (1980) hunger strikes in Long Kesh and Armagh Women’s prison. Previously seen in 2001.
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2002 image of the republican prisoners board in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast. In addition to the 1981 hunger strikers and Stagg and Gaughan, the mural mentions Paddy Joe Crawford, Francis Dodds, Patrick Teer, Teddy Campbell, Hugh Coney, Jim Moyne, Henry Henry, Sean Bateson, Pol Kinsella (all from Long Kesh), Tom Smyth, Brendan Seery, Paddy Kelly (Portlaoise), Noel Jenkinson and Sean O’Conaill (who died in English prisons).
“I ndıl chuımhne na gcımí poblachtánacha a fuaır bás ı ngéıbheann ı rıth na coımhlınte reatha seo.” [In memory of the republican prisoners who died in captivity in the course of this ongoing (lit. running) contest.]
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The flag of the Basque Country/Euskadi flies above the hunger striker memorial (with Bobby Sands’s Rhythm Of Time) in Rockdale Street, Belfast. For more, see the 2001 image.
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“Generations shall remember them and call them blessed.” With images of female activists including Máıre Drumm, Maıréad Farrell, and Countess Markievicz.
Rockmount Street, west Belfast
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St James’s supports the hunger strikes – in Long Kesh and Armagh and (on the right) in Turkey.
Various images and posters from 1980 and 1981 are reproduced. Along the top, we see (l-r) a soldier is confronted at the top of Springhill (image at Irish Times), “Wanted for murder [and torture of Irish prisoners]” (image at MSU), “Mothers hunger”, “Blessed are those who hunger for justice“, “Where there is oppression there is resistance”, Armagh hunger-striker Mary Doyle.
Along the bottom: “Stop strip searches“, “Save our children from plastic death”, “Support the hunger strike demands”, and portraits of 1981 hunger-strikers Bernard Fox and Pat Sheehan, both from the Falls Road.
For Turkish hunger-strikers, see F-Block Martyrs | Zehra Kulaksiz | Support The Turkish Hunger Strikers.
On the side-wall to the left, son Joseph McDonnell weeps at the foot of the coffin of his father, Joe.
For in-progress images, see the 2001 post.
Hugo Street, west Belfast
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“Restore political status – Stand by Maghaberry POWs.” Inside a rectangle of barbed wire is a lark carrying an assault rifle and a watchtower (from Long Kesh) and Faintly seen towards the top is “81 – 02 Óglaıgh na hÉıreann”. Whiterock Road, Belfast
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“HMP Maghaberry = Stormonts’ best kept secret. “Where ’81 never happened” – 32CSM” and a list of “Six County POWs”. First appearance of both 32CSM (32-county Sovereignty Movement) and IRPWA (Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association).
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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