For the launch of a new organisation that aims to keep people with dementia in the community for longer – Derry Engages and Empowers Dementia (Fb | Family Support) – the front of Free Derry Corner (Visual History) was painted with its butterfly logo in purple and green.
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Here are a few images from the parade through Larne town (and speeches in Sandy Bay playing fields) to celebrate the centenary of the gun-running of April 24-25th, 1914, in which more than 30,000 rifles (rather than the Lewis gun and machine gun seen here) were smuggled into Ireland and dispersed to the various groups of Ulster Volunteers by horseless carriage (i.e. motor-car), in order to thwart the passage of the Home Rule bill.
(Here is a contemporary (1914) account from the (Adelaide) Journal. Here are video of the (2014) event: BBC | youtube | youtube)
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Here is a gallery of anti-Agreement stencils and hand-painted boards in Newry. The primary concern is the treatment of prisoners in Maghaberry and elsewhere – “Republicans against internment”, “Stop the strip searches in Maghaberry”, “Smash Maghaberry”, “End British torture in Maghaberry”, “Restore political status” – followed by anger at Sınn Féın for its collusion with the organs of Westminster – “Sinn Féin – we deliver British rule” and “Provo puppets still administering British rule”.
Kilmorey St x2, Daisy Hill x2, Edward St, Chapel St x3
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“Died before surrender – 5th May – 20th August 1981. 30th anniversary. Erected by Newry Independent Republican 1981 Committee.”
“Stormont facilitates internment” replaces “End Israeli terror in Palestine” on top of the hunger striker commemoration board (erected in 2011) at the junction of Camlough and Carnagat roads at Derrybeg.
Camlough Road, Newry
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Boards of the Rising Sons Of The Valley (Fb), Mourne Young Defenders (Fb), and Pride Of Ballinran (Fb) flute bands in Kilkeel, County Down.
The left part of the RSV board shows the numeral “II” on a “1912” Ulster Volunteers flag. The 2nd County Down battalion of the 1912 Ulster Volunteers became (in 1914) the 16th RIR, the pioneer (engineering) battalion for the 36th Division (Long Long Trail).
The motto on the Ballinran board is “Secundus ad nullam”, which is a word-for-word mis-translation of “second to none”; properly it would simply be “nulli secundus”.
Harbour Road, Kilkeel
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“International pan-Celtic festival – Doıre”. The festival (web) is in its 43rd year and will be held in Derry from April 22nd to 27th (Transceltic).
in the centre, the Derry oak-leaf is painted in the flags of the six Celtic-language nations with “welcome” in the six languages: (by flag, clockwise from left) Irish (Fáılte), Scots Gaelic (Fàılte), Cornish (Dynnargh Dhis), Manx (Failt), Welsh (Croeso), and Breton (Degemer Mat).
Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry. There is a Visual History page for the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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“Pitt Park” in red-white-and-blue in Pitt Park, Newtownards Road, east Belfast
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“Justice for the Craigavon 2” – this is the second piece in the Peter Moloney Collection about the campaign to release Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton, the pair convicted for their part in the 2009 killing of Stephen Carroll (BBC) – the first was a piece of graffiti in Ardoyne in 2013.
On teach Chú Chulaınn in the New Lodge flats.
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The piece features (left) Colin Duffy, who was arrested in November 2012 in connection with the murder of David Black (BBC | WP), and (right) Marian Price (WP) who was released on May 2013 after two years in prison.
This stencil in the New Lodge (Queen’s Parade) replaced the previously graffiti-ed version of the same message in 2012.
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Stephen Murney, an éırígí (web) activist, was released in February after fourteen months in Maghaberry (RN | BBC-NI). This stencil in support of Murney is in the New Lodge, north Belfast. For a gallery of other such pieces from 2013, see Free Stephen Murney.
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