“Make a difference, join Sinn Féin.” above the sinn Féin office on the Falls Road, with plaques to Máire Drumm and Pat ‘Beag’ McGeown to the left and right.
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“Make a difference, join Sinn Féin.” above the sinn Féin office on the Falls Road, with plaques to Máire Drumm and Pat ‘Beag’ McGeown to the left and right.
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Tá Ár gCultúr Beo (“Notre culture est vivante/La nostra cultura e viva/Our culture is alive”) was painted by Mo Chara Kelly with help from the local youth. The red parts of the mural use a translucent medium that Kelly had become acquainted with while painting in the United States (An Phobal A Phéinteáil 10) that allow additional figures from modern Ireland (left) and Celtic Ireland (right) to be seen. The winged figure (repeated four times) is a heron that he found in a book of Celtic designs while serving time in Long Kesh.
The mural was the first of four projects in Springhill facilitated by the Upper Springfield Development Trust as part of a “West Belfast Arts & Heritage Trail” (as per the plaque just out of view to the right) or “Public Arts Trail”.
Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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“End British policing in Ireland: intimidation, sectarianism, 28 day detention, corruption, child assaults, evidence tampering –www.32csm.info” 32 County Sovereignty Movement board on Durrow Park, Derry.
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This BBC page gives a brief history of water charges in Northern Ireland up to 2009, eight years after they were originally to be introduced. The protesting board above – “No water charges”, below an Ógra Shinn Féin board, is in Bridge Street, Strabane.
“Join Ógra Shinn Féin. Shaping the Ireland of tomorrow – a voice for the youth of today. ‘Everyone has their part to play’ – Bobby Sands.”
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Claire McGill, Pat Doherty, and Barry McElduff of West Tyrone Sinn Féin. Electoral board above the Sinn Féin office James Street, Omagh.
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“Putting Ireland first [in Europe]”. Sinn Féin European election hoarding for candidate Bairbre de Brún on the side of the Andersonstown office (Connolly House).
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The power station below Divis tower, rather than the so-called International Wall a little further up the road, is becoming the starting point for (republican) west Belfast. Visitors from around the world are greeted in a variety of languages. The board is sponsored by Gort Na Móna Historical Society. Above it is a Fáilte Feirste Thiar [Welcome To West Belfast] tarp: “Promoting west Belfast tourism”.
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Sinn Féin Youth claims to be the “tóirsire”/”torch-bearer” for the campaign to unite Ireland. Racecourse Road, Derry.
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Three constituency offices – the SDLP’s Byrne had lost in 2003 and 2007, pushed out by Kieran Deeny who was campaigning to keep the Tyrone County Hospital open – and a Sinn Féin hoarding in Omagh. James Street (x2), Dublin Road, Dromore Road
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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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