“Springfield residents say … No bigots on our road! 27 June re-route sectarian marches.” The lambeg drummer is from the “Kill All Taigs LVF flute band”. The march went ahead, with a large RUC presence and a silent protest from locals (RN | Jarman).
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“Remember the ten H-Block martyrs. 1981-1998. Unbowed – unbroken.” With a pair of fists in barbed wire, a funeral volley fired over a coffin covered with Tricolour and beret, and a line-drawing of Bobby Sands. Signed “Republican Youth”
Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne,Ard Eoın, north Belfast/tuaısceart Bhéal Feırste
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“Not Spain, not France. Free Catalonia. Since 1714 the Catalan nation is military [sic] occupied for the Spanish and French states. Catalonia has their own culture, language, and history. Our country have [sic] more than 1000 years of history as a nation. The Catalan flag is the first European flag. Our fight flag is the “Estelada”. The white star means the freedom, and the blue triangle stands for the sky of humanity. Free Catalonia! United Ireland! El nostre dia arribarà! Tıócfaıdh [sic] ár lá. 11/8/97″
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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This is a mural of international solidarity between Catalonia (llibertat), Ireland (saoırse), the Basque country, Palestine, and Mexico, whose flags can be seen along the bottom. The skulls hanging on the left are labelled as coming from Kenya, India, Ireland, and Cambodia. The people featured are Steve Biko, Che, Máıre Drumm, Maıréad Farrell, Miram Daly (whose son Donal worked on the mural), Nelson Mandela, Leila Khaled, and Leonard Peltier. The aboriginal flag is on the chimney breast and the pots are painted in the four colours of man.
The mural was painted by Féıle Artists (including Danny D, Marty Lyons, Mo Chara Kelly, and Donal Daly) along with Victor Ochoa (WP).
Falls Road/Fallswater Street, west Belfast
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From left to right: “Drumcree – no surrender”, Britannia with a Union Flag and an Ulster Banner shield, Ulster Young Militants, UDA, UFF, “South East Antrim Brigade”, “Cloughfern Young Conquerors [Fb] est. 1973″ with the flag of independent Northern Ireland, and a pair of hooded gunmen flanking a wreath “dedicated in rememberance [sic] of Gerry Evans”. Evans was killed by the INLA on April 27th, 1994, shot at his shop in the Northcott centre. (Lost Lives 3472. Sutton describes Evans as a “civilian”.)
Painted by “Artists Hazey / Neeky” in Knockenagh Avenue, Newtownabbey
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Some of the programme from the 1996 festival is available in the ‘Extraordinary Women’ collection at the Linenhall Library. 1996 was also the first year of Féıle FM (“Triple FM”) (The Can).
Painted by Margaret McCann in Hawthorn Street, west Belfast
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Text would later be added along the bottom reading, “This mural is dedicated to the Women of Cumann Na mBan, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann & Sınn Féın.” Image “from R[uth] Taillon’s book The Women Of 1916.” Taillon is a Canadian who moved to Belfast in 1980 and has been doing work with the women’s movement in the north and on women’s history – see NVTv.
Hawthorn Street, west Belfast. There was also a mural on the low wall to the left – see The Soldiers Of Cumann Na mBan.
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“This mural is a memorial to the volunteers of A Coy 1st Batt who served the Shankill community so bravely during the years of conflict. Gone but not forgotten.” The flags being held on either side are of the Shankill Protestant Boys (1st battalion, Ulster Volunteers) and the USSF.
Canmore Street, Shankill, west Belfast. Paddy Duffy’s British Telecom van is parked on the Shankill, to the right of the image.
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“Liberty, equality, freedom – saoırse”. US President Bill Clinton visited Belfast and Derry on November 30th, 1995, and his visit included brief walk-abouts on the Shankill and the Falls (Clinton Library | BBC).
The stop on the Falls was at Dunville Park, where this painting on boards had been quickly (and briefly) erected on top of a mural (25 Years Of Resistance).
On the left is “Wolfe Tone 1798” and on the right “Abraham Lincoln 1865”: “Let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation’s wounds, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves”. (Lincoln’s second inaugural speech concludes, “With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”)
The stencil on the lower wall – “25 years – time for peace, time to go. Demilitarise now!”, designed by Robert Ballagh – belongs to the previous mural.
Dunville Street, west Belfast
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“In loving memory of Stevie McCrea”. Red Hand Commando volunteer Stevie McCrea was sentenced to 16 years for the murder of James Kerr in 1972 (Behind The Mask) and was subsequently “murdered by the enemies of Ulster” on February 18th, 1989 in an IPLO attack on the Orange Cross (WP). (The door of the club can be seen next to the mural in M00560.)
On the side-wall, Binyon’s ‘For The Fallen‘ is modified for the singular “he”: “For he shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary him nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him.”
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