Joe Hughes was confined to a wheelchair and could not speak or properly use his hands. Nonetheless, he became a boy scout, visited Lourdes and Rome, and raised thousands of pounds for disability causes. He was awarded an MBE and a People Of The Year award. The board includes a poem by Brian Smeaton and a biography of Joe.
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A candle for each of the seventeen people killed by plastic bullets, including, in the middle, Nora McCabe. From the info plaque: “Nora McCabe was shot dead by the RUC on the 8th July 1981 at 7:45 a.m. as she left her home in Linden Street off the Falls Road in Belfast for the corner shop to buy cigarettes. It was also the morning that Joe McDonnell died on hunger strike …” For the poster her candle sits on, see Plastic Death.
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A large “H” on the Whiterock Road, Belfast with pictures of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, and Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan on the crossbar, with Tricolour and Starry Plough flags (and perhaps a 30th anniversary flag).
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On 9th July, 1972, British Army snipers fired from Corry’s timber yard overlooking the Westrock bungalows. Five civilians were killed: John Dougal, Margaret Gargan, Fr Noel Fitzpatrick, David McCafferty, Patrick Butler. The memorial garden shown here is in Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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Unfinished and damaged “No plastic bullets/No RUC” mural in Springhill Avenue.
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In Táin Bó Cúailnge, the “sweet-mouth harpers of Cain Bile” are also “druids, men of great cunning and great power of augury and magic.” The come to Medb and Ailill to entertain them, carrying mistletoe by which they sing, but are mistaken as Ulster spies; the harpers turn themselves into deer to escape their pursuers, near the Lia Mór (Great Stone) (Death Of Lethan). Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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IRA in the colours of the Tricolour on the light-poles of Springhill Avenue/Springhill Heights, Belfast.
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RUC officers in riot gear fire plastic bullets. Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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IRA volunteers on manoeuvres with rifles and RPG, while British Army helicopter flies to base (possibly Divis Tower). Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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A trio of volunteers with Long Kesh in the background fire a funeral volley over photographic portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers. Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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