“Óglach Coımhín Mac Brádaıgh a fuaır bás agus é ag cosaınt a phobaıl.” [Volunteer Coimhín Mac Brádaigh, who died while defending his community.] Mac Brádaıgh was killed pursuing loyalist gunman Michael Stone, who was attacking the funeral of the Gibraltar 3, in Milltown Cemetery, on March 16th, 1988, twenty years before the board above was erected on the Andersonstown Road. After a short time it was moved to South Link.
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“Israel, fuck you!” and “Fuck Isra[e]l”. Here are two pieces of anti-Israel graffiti on the Whiterock Road.
In the background of the second image is a 2006 piece by Mo Chara, ‘Paistí na Carraige’ on the Whiterock Children’s Centre.
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Pro-Palestinian graffiti on the shutters of the newsagents on the Falls at the top of Donegall Road, west Belfast.
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Miriam Daly was chairwoman of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party) and shot dead in 1980 by the UDA/UFF in 1980. Originally painted in 1996 by Ciaran McKeirnan, Brian O’Loan, and son Donal Daly. Previously seen in 2001 | 2002 | 2003.
Oakman Street, west Belfast.
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“Everyone tells me I’m a feminist. All I know is that I’m just as good as others, and that especially means men. I am definitely a socialist and I’m definitely a Republican. I believe in a united socialist country, definitely socialist. Capitalism can offer our people nothing and yet that’s the main interest of the British in Ireland – Oglach [sic] Maıréad Farrell.” Farrell was one of the Gibraltar 3 (along with Sean Savage and Dan McCann), killed by SAS soldiers in 1988. Painted by Rısteard Ó Murchú.
Jasmine Corner, Twinbrook
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John Murray, Caoımhín Mac Brádaıgh/Kevin Brady and Thomas McErlean were killed by Michael Stone as they pursued him in Milltown Cemetery after he had attacked the funeral of the Gibraltar 3 on March 16th, 1988.
Springfield Road/Monagh Road, west Belfast.
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“Not as Catholics or Protestants, not as nationalists or unionists, but as Belfast workers standing together.” For the 100th anniversary of the strike by dockers and carters in Belfast, this large board was painted by Fra Maher and Rısteard Ó Murchú. It was launched without the title across the top (youtube | M03786).
Leaders Boyd and Larkin are portrayed in the middle. The second panel shows speakers (including Larkin) on a platform (O’Hare); the third shows an RIC guard of blackleg workers – about 70% of the force mutinied and the fifth panel shows dismissed RIC constable William Barrett being carried through Belfast; the sixth shows the Cameron Highlanders being stoned by picketers (History Ireland). Margaret Lennon and Charles McMullan, two Catholic victims of British soldiers, shot during protests, are portrayed in the bottom right.
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One RIC member was killed and another wounded outside the Beehive Bar in a shoot-out with IRA men in September 1920. In reprisal, County Inspector Harrison and his men killed Vol. Ned Trodden, Vol. Sean Gaynor, and Sean McFadden (Rısteard Ó Murchú). The gang, under Detective Inspector Nixon, would go on to kill more Catholics in 1921 and in 1922 commit the McMahon killings and the Arnon Street killings, in each of which 6 people died.
On the right is a small board on “political policing”: “Agents exposed. Shoot-to-kill. Spying. Cover-ups. Collusion. Plastic Bullets. Sectarian policing. Poisoning peace process.”
Northumberland Street, west Belfast
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“Whoever we are, wherever we live, these rights belong to all children under the sun and the moon and the stars, whether we live in cities or towns or villages or in the mountains or valleys or deserts or forests or jungles. Anywhere and everywhere in the big wide world these are the rights of every child.” No war, poverty, or spoils. Signposts mark the way to Ofer Prison Camp in the West Bank and Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Islandbawn Street, Belfast.
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These two pieces of anti-PSNI graffiti are in Glenvale Street, PUL west Belfast: “PSNI no-go zone – enter at your own risk” and “Providing Support [for] Nationalist Interests”.
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