POWs – Page 4 – Paddy Duffy Collection

The International Wall 2008

2008-01-012025-11-26Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a complete set of images of the International Wall (Visual History) some time in the first half of 2008 (the Nugent mural and the WBTA mural had been changed by July). From left to right:

“The first blanketman” Kieran ‘Header’ Nugent
Solidarity with Palestine “the largest concentration camp in the world!!! 33 million innocent people tortured, denied their freedom!
Maghaberry POWs “Not forgotten – segregation for Irish POWs”
Frederick Douglass
Guernica
The Manchester Martyrs
American’s Greatest Failure, with a “British support hook”
Taxi Trax, with a central image of the GPO, and with an internet address for the first time
Martin Meehan “A leader is gone, the legend forever lives on” + Askatasuna “not Spain, not France – self-determination for the Basque country”
Stop Plan Bush “Stop the crazy son of a Bush”
Liam MacCarthy “Ireland’s forgotten son”

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Copyright © 2008 Paddy Duffy
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Long Kesh LPOW

2001-01-012025-11-15Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Chained-together padlocks represent Long Kesh and UDA/UFF prisoners of war (LPOW). The Ulster nationalist flag is on the left. For the four-quadrant shield, see Sans Peur.

Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry

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Copyright © 2001 Paddy Duffy (no date given)
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Free Our Prisoners

2000-01-012025-11-12Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Free our prisoners o[f] w[ar]”, specifically prisoners from the South Belfast UFF/UDA. This pair of smaller murals is in the garden next to St Alban’s, and the gable mural is across the road.

Blythe Street, south Belfast

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Carrickhill Saoırse

1998-08-012025-11-03Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A dove carries the keys that would unlock the chains that are already being rent asunder by their manacled captive in “Ceıs Fada” [Long Kesh]. Part of the “green ribbon” campaign to release republican POWs under the terms of any peace agreement.

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Common Sense UDP

1998-08-012025-10-24Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) was the political wing of the UDA, and supported a policy of an independent Northern Ireland (as described in the policy document ‘Common Sense‘). It won a few council seats in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and dissolved in 2001) (BBC-NI).

The top-right panel is similar to this Victor Patterson photograph of the farmers’ protest at Stormont during the Ulster Workers’ Council strike that brought down the Sunningdale Agreement in 1974.

Bellevue Street, west Belfast

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Release Our Prisoners

1998-01-012025-10-23Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The scroll on the left between the emblems of the UDA, UYM, UFF and the Ulster banner reads, “In memory of our freedom fighters who fought and died for Ulster. It was not for glory they fought nor honour or riches but freedom alone which no good man should lose but with his life.” There is a pair of manacled red fists above the central UFF emblem, which itself rests on a free-floating outline of Northern Ireland superimposed with the Ulster banner. On the right is a crouching volunteer from A battalion, from south Belfast’s Sandy Row.

Linfield Road, south Belfast

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Free The POWs

1997-12-312025-10-20Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A collage of image from the previous 30 years, including banging bin-lids on the ground, Maıréad Farrell in Armagh prison, men on the blanket, the cages of Long Kesh, marches in support of the hunger strikers, and reproductions of various posters, against Margaret Thatcher, plastic bullets, internment, and censorship. There’s a quote from Bob Dylan in the middle, “How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see – the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.”

Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast

Release All POWs Now

1996-09-012025-10-04Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Saoırse” [freedom]. Both male and female prisoners of war are represented in this mural: by the male and female faces — the male above the silhouette of Long Kesh, the female behind bars (presumably of Armagh prison) – and by the (formerly astrological) symbols for male (Mars) and female (Venus). The mural is signed (top left): “G[erard Mo Chara] Kelly 95″.

Kinallen Court, Ormeau, south Belfast

For Peace

1996-08-012025-10-17Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A pair of manacled red fists break free of their chains and the Maze/Long Kesh is depicted in the outline of Northern Ireland. “Free the prisoners”, “All gave some, some gave all.”

No particular paramilitary group is mentioned, though this is UDA territory.

Bellevue Street, Shankill, west Belfast

We Shall Rise Again

1996-08-012025-10-10Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Present peace now stills our hand/Death no longer stalks our land./Our weapons are silent and shall remain/But if needed, we shall rise again.” UDA volunteers in fatigues hold on to their weapons while the peace process continues. On the right: “In memory of the officers and volunteers of A Coy UDA UFF who unselfishly dedicated their lives in defence of their country. Quis separabit. Feriens tego.”

Above is printed board with a silhouetted POW in front of a watch-tower. “LPOW – you are not forgotten”

On the community centre in the middle of High Green, Highfield, west Belfast