“Their only crime was loyalty – release all loyalist prisoners”. Red Hand Command (UVF) mural in Severn Street, east Belfast.
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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy (no date given)
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Their Only Crime Was Loyalty
POWs
Consolidate The Peace
“Consolidate the peace – release east Belfast’s loyalist prisoners”. As for republicans, the release of political prisoners – specifically UDA prisoners in this case – was for loyalists the most immediate potential benefit of the peace process. “We forget them not – LPA”
Harvey Court, east Belfast
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An Gorta Mór
This is one of about nine murals painted in 1995 for the 150th anniversary mural of An Gorta Mór/the Great Hunger (Visual History).
There is a wall to the right that reads, “There was no famine; it was genocide.” (See the Peter Moloney Collection.)
The dove on the chimney and the green ribbon below are a nod to the other main movement during this period, the release of political prisoners as a leading goal of the peace process.
Signed “Roısín Byrne & Kathy Rooney”.
Falls Road at Fallswater Street, west Belfast
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Saoırse
Long Kesh viewed through a keyhole, with green ribbons from the campaign to free republican prisoners. “The mural was donated by New Lodge RAC [Relatives Action Committee]”.
Donore Court, New Lodge, north Belfast
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Green Ribbon Campaign
A large green ribbon is added to Free Derry Corner (Visual History) as a call for prioritising the release of political prisoners in negotiations that take place during the ceasefire.
In the background is The Petrol Bomber.
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Paddy Duffy Collection 