Spotted in the lower Shankill estate: a gaping gorilla dressed in Orange Order collarette carrying a Union flag.
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Great Ape
Belfast west
Gibraltar
Sean Savage, Maıréad Farrell, and Dan McCann were “Executed by the British SAS 6th March 1988.”
“Oh! Cold March winds that pierce the dark/You cry in aged tones/For souls of folk you’ve brought to God/But still you bear the moans//Oh! Weeping winds, this lonely night/My mother’s heart is sore/Oh! Lord of all, breathe freedom’s breath/That she may weep no more! – Bobby Sands Weeping Winds“
Replaces the painted board seen in 2001.
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The Women Of 1916
“This mural is dedicated to the Women of Cumann na mBan, Óglaıgh na hÉıreann & Sınn Féın.” Image “from R[uth] Taillon’s book The Women Of 1916“. For the mural on the left, see Sister Soldiers.
Hawthorn Street, west Belfast.
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Cuba–Ireland
This is the ‘Cuba – Ireland’ mural in Shiels Street, middle Falls, west Belfast, at the end of its life in 2008. The mural dates back to at least 1998 – see the images from 1999 in the Peter Moloney Collection.
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Collusion!
“A web of double agents, death squads and deceit” involving PSNI, RUC, Special Branch, RHC, UFF, MI5 MI6, LVF, UDA, UDR, UVF. The web begins at the door of 10 Downing Street. On the side wall of the Sınn Féın office on the Andersonstown Road.
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Caoımhín Mac Brádaıgh
“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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Anti-Israel
“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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End The Siege Of Gaza
Pro-Palestinian graffiti on the shutters of the newsagents on the Falls at the top of Donegall Road, west Belfast.
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History Is Written By The Winner
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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Colin Area Remembers
“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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Extramural Activity 