This printed tarp on the side of the Falls Road commemorates the ten 1981 hunger strikers (along with Frank Stagg, Michael Gaughan, Nora Connolly, and Maıréad Farrell, paired with international figures Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Leonard Peltier, and Nelson Mandela) and features a verse from a Bobby Sands poem The Crime Of Castlereagh: “All things must come to pass as one/So hope should never die/There is no height or bloody might/That a freeman can’t defy./There is no source or foreign force/Can break one man who knows,/That his free will no thing can kill/And from that freedom grows.”
This tarp, which is 20′ x 20′, was printed from Mo Chara’s original 8′ x 8′ painting; it was also printed on a 30′ x 30′ tarp in New York. For all three, see the Chronological Catalogue of Mo Chara’s works.
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Who originally made this, and what year was it painted in? Could anyone tell me or are these facts unknown?
Hello – the original piece was created in 2001 for the 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike. You can read about the creation of the original and the two larger tarps that were made from it (of which this is one) in the book about Mo Chara – free pdf at https://gerardmocharakelly.wordpress.com/ – see Ch 10