Free Ireland

1991 image of the Free Ireland mural on Beechmount Avenue (RPG Avenue), Belfast, with two shots of the side wall. At the top, a stencilled board reads “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (The “Beechmount Five”. See Greenleft News) At the bottom, Pearse’s famous lines “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

For a close-up of the IRA plaque, see 1990’s Free Ireland.

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Markievicz Unemployed Centre

Job-seekers office named after (former) local resident Constance Markievicz in Union Street, Sligo. Now the “Intreo” unemployment centre.

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Hunger Strikers

Portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers are combined in a gallery on Lecky Road, Derry, next to a call to march in the Celebration Of Resistance in Belfast on Sunday August 11th. If you recognize the artist, please get in touch.

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Jesus I Trust In Thee

Jesus of Nazareth giving a blessing of blue and red rays while walking a paved road (Sister Faustina‘s The Divine Mercy). Racecourse Road, Derry.

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Welcome To The West Bank

A reference to one of the Israeli-occupied territories. With “IRA” and “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) graffiti. Glenfada Park, Derry.The plaque in the centre is the memorial to Charles Love.

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GRY

Francis Hughes and the Tricolour, Starry Plough, and Sunburst flags. “GRY” perhaps for “Gobnascale Republican Youth”. Corrody Road, Derry.

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Roll Of Honour

A short IRA roll of honour on Strabane Old Road, Derry: James O’Hagan, Ciaran Fleming/Flemming, Willie Fleming/Flemming, and (scored out?) Gerry Logue.

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Up The RA

Republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.

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Charles Love

“In memory of Charles Love, accidentally killed on 28th January 1990. Unveiled by his father Patrick. Erected by the Bloody Sunday Initiative 27th January 1991. Padre Pio pray for him.” Love was 17 years old when he was hit by flying masonry from an IRA bomb. Fahan Street/Rossville Street, Derry. The lettering from RUC Keep Out is still faintly visible.

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Derry Brigade Oglaigh na hÉireann

An IRA roll of honour in Brandywell Road, Derry. Carlin, Coyle, McCool, Lafferty, O’Hagan, Keenan, McGillen, Starrs, Bradley, Donaghey, Quigley, Brady, Carr, McDaid, Walker, Craig, Russell, Lynch, McDaid, Meenan, Moyne, Coyle, Gallagher, Heaney, Duffy, McBrearty, Maguire, Bradley, Fleming, Doherty, Fleming, English, Gough, McFadden, Hagan, McSheffrey, Deery

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