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The British Government Does Not Listen

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The design for this mural comes from a poster sent by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini, which featured the head of Bobby Sands against a backdrop of skeletal bodies. The hunger-strike imagery is somewhat in contrast with the quote to the right, which advocates for armed resistance: “The Irish Republican Army is right: The British government does not listen to the ballot box in Ireland and the only thing they will listen to in Ireland is what they listened to in other colonies: agitation, rebellion, and armed forces”. 

Oakman Street, Beechmount, west Belfast

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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger For Justice

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This Whiterock Road mural shows a blanketman/hunger-striker being watched over by a uniformed volunteer, on a large tricoloured bunting/drape at the feet of an angel holding a banner reading “blessed are those who hunger for justice“. Above are the words “Their hunger, their pain, our struggle“. The shields of the four provinces of Ireland and two shamrocks complete the mural.

Whiterock Road, west Belfast

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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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British Repression

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depicting (from left to right) Ireland in the grip of a fist with a Union Flag cufflink, a prison guard whose mouth holds prison bars and the arm of a bleeding prisoner, and a naked figure in a tricoloured scarf crucified on a Union Flag.

There is a fourth panel to the right, of the island of Ireland bearing a cross “Made in Britain”.

At least three of the original images are by Jack Clafferty, a founder member of the Troops Out Movement (see the Peter Moloney Collection).

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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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