The Butcher’s Apron

03500 2016-06-03 Beechm Queen Axe+
Martin McGuinness waits, with hand outstretched, to greet a smiling Queen Elizabeth who strides towards him carrying a bloodied axe and wearing a Union flag apron spattered with the blood of people from Ireland, Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Mural in Beechmount reproducing a 2012 Latuff cartoon (below).
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Camera Settings: f14, 1/500, ISO 200, full size 3888 x 2592
Update: 2016-06-21 The figures have been blotted out (by Sinn Féin, alleges the IRPWA):
03546 2016-06-21 Queen Axe blanked+
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Camera Settings: f11, 1/500, ISO 400, full size 3888 x 2592
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