2008 image of the vintage (1987) GPO piece in Courtrai Park, Strabane, seen previously in 2002.
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Easter Rising
Easter Parade
A call in Twinbrook to march in the 2008 Easter [Rising] Parade. “Assemble 1.00 pm Beechmount Avenue, Sunday 23rd March 08. Wear an Easter lily. Support the march. Join Sinn Féin”. Off Stewartstown Road, Belfast.
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Beechmount Óglaigh
The memorial garden in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, goes beyond commemoration of IRA volunteers. Moving clockwise: dying volunteer, “local men and women and POWs”, hunger strikers, comhaltaí Shinn Féin, proclamation, na hÓglaigh, “innocent people from the area”, “the unsung heroes off [sic] this area”, Sands quote.
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GPO Dublin 1916
2008 image of 2002’s Easter Rising mural in Berwick Road, Belfast.
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ETA – RIRA
These hand-drawn BRY/RIRA murals are a montage of many traditional republican symbols, such as Celtic FC, the Easter lily, Bobby Sands, an assault rifle, the Tricolour and a crude island of Ireland. Plus support for Basque separatists ETA. “CRF” = “Catholic Reaction Force”? Dove Gardens, Derry.
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Twinbrook Final Salute
Three generations of republicans, from the Troubles, the Rising, and the Rebellion, salute “F[rankie] Ryan, B[obby] Sands, J[ohn] Rooney, G[erard] Fennell, B[artholomew] Teeling”. The first four are modern IRA volunteers; the last is a United Irishman from Lisburn (Rebel Breeze has a full account of his deeds).
For an unspoiled view, see J0194.
Juniper Way, Twinbrook.
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Éirí Amach Na Cásca
For the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the mural shown above was painted on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast (aka RPG Avenue). The mural reproduces a 1941 stamp designed by Victor Brown showing an armed volunteer outside the GPO. For more information and the postage stamp, see Raising The Flag.
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Free Ireland
Bouquets of tricoloured flowers are placed on the Free Ireland mural at the corner of Beechmount Avenue and Falls Road, Belfast. A hand clasping an Easter lily is manacled by bonds “Made in Britain”. The mural is now in its fifteenth year. For the plaque, see the original 1990 post.
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Easter Rising 1916
“Freedom fighters outside the GPO – Easter Rising 1916”. Connolly, Pearse, and Markievicz lead the attack on the GPO. Markievicz was in fact at St Stephen’s Green.
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Easter 1916
Side by side in Brandywell Road, Derry: the Easter lily (with “IRA” on one of the flags) and “disband the RUC”.
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