POWs – Page 5 – Paddy Duffy Collection

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

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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
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Their Only Crime Was Loyalty

1996-01-012025-09-22Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“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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Consolidate The Peace

1996-01-012025-09-22Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“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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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
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An Gorta Mór

1995-08-012025-09-20Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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

Saoırse

1995-01-012025-09-18Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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

Green Ribbon Campaign

1995-01-012025-09-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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.