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Break The Connection With Capitalism

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2013-05-01 Anti-Fascist+

“In Memory of the Belfast men who fought against fascism with the international brigade, Spanish civil war 1936 – 1939.” The colours of the international brigade (red, yellow and purple – here a lighter violet colour) serve as a background.

The board shows Belfast socialists walking at Bodenstown, 1934 as part of the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration, held each year in June. Tone, an Anglican and the founder of the United Irishmen, is buried in the Bodenstown graveyard. Sources report, however, that there was an attempt to exclude these marchers, from “Shankill Rd Belfast Branch”, from part of the 1934 commemoration. The reasons given vary: they were carrying a non-standard banner, they had communist leanings, and, they were Protestants. (See Paddy Byrne | WP1 – though a different banner is mentioned | WP2 – see “legacy” section | WP3 – see fn. 1).

The plaque to the right reads: “In memory of all those who fought in Spain against Fascism 1936-1939. This mural  was erected by Teach Na Fáılte Republican Ex-Prisoners Support Group and Belfast City Council. It was unveiled on April 20th, 2013 (irsp.ie). Signed “[Fra] Maher 2013”.

Northumberland Street, west Belfast.

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BRY Board

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2013-03-07 BRY+

A fairly crude painting on a piece of board on a wall in the Bogside showing an Ulster flag (the board is a light yellow and there is no crown above the red hand) and an Armalite rifle. (Previously from the same area: BRAGging | Painting The Town)

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Ding Dong The Witch Is Gone

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2013-04-21 DingDong2+

Black-and-white and colour versions (see below) of graffiti on Divis Street celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher. The power of the state lives on, however, in the surveillance camera atop the pole. (Previously: Rot In Hell | Living Like Animals | Thatcher The Real Criminal | Thatcherism)

“Ding-dong! The witch is dead” (from The Wizard Of Oz) (youtube) went to #2 in the singles charts in the aftermath of Thatcher’s death.

2013-04-21 DingDongColour+

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Painting The Town

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2013-03-07 BRYTricolour+

An electrical box and light-post painted in the colours of the Irish tricolour by dissident republicans in the Bogside in Derry. “BRY” is “Bogside Republican Youth”

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Sledgehammer

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2013-04-23 BedroomTax+

“Smash the Tory Bedroom Tax”. A Republican Network For Unity flyer protesting a provision in the 2012 Welfare Reform Act (WP), passed into law on March 8th, 2012, which would penalize welfare recipients if they are deemed to be under-occupying their home. The flyer shows what seems to be a Maoist worker taking a sledgehammer to the bill.

In addition to the flyer in good condition, above, you can see below another copy of the flyer, which can be also seen at the left-hand-side of the wall in yesterday’s post, on the front of a metal box.

2013-04-22 BedroomTax+

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Never At Peace

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2013-04-22 TheFoolsWide+

Words from Padraig Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 are featured in this mural at the bottom of Brompton Park, in Ardoyne. It ends …

“They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

A colourised photograph from the day itself – with Pearse in uniform – can be found at Goggle Arts & Culture.

2013-04-22 TheFools+

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Hunger Strikers

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2013-03-20 TwinbrookStrikers+

“Remember the Hunger Strikers – 32nd Anniversary”. Twinbrook memorial to the hunger strikers of 1981, updated annually. Bobby Sands, featured on the right, and who lived a stones-throw away from this mural, was the first to die, on May 5th. Seen previously in 2008.

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BRAGging

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2013-03-07 BRYGraffiti+

Dissident republican graffiti, done with a marker, in the area around the Bogside Inn, at the bottom of Westland Street, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

On the left-hand side we have “INLA” and a five-pointed star, a flag (featuring a sunburst and the plough in the stars), “F T PSNI”, “SS RUC” on a tricolour, “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) and “BRAG” (Bogside Republican Action Group) and “we fear no loyalists”.

On the right-hand side we have “Free Gaza”, “Hamas” with Palestinian and Irish flags, “BRY” and starry plough and tricolour, “Fuck Sınn Féın sellouts” and “ONH” (Óglaıgh na hÉıreann).

See previously: BRAG

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The Bogside

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2013-03-07 Bogside+

The Bogside Artists’ ‘The Death Of Innocence’ at the bottom of Westland Street in Derry. The mural features Annette McGavigan, who died on September 6th, 1971, at age 14, shot by a British Army soldier. The mural is three storeys high; its height can be judged in comparison with the pedestrian walking below it. Above the mural, the streets of the bogside stand row upon row.

In the video below, one of the artists, Kevin Hasson discusses the mural, including the later alterations to the coloured butterfly and the broken rifle. The original version can be seen in M02053.

See also the Visual History page on The People’s Gallery.

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The Birth Of The Irish Republic

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2013-04-10 EasterRising+

Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic shows James Connolly lying injured on a stretcher, being tended to by Elizabeth O’Farrell (? WP), while Pearse, Clarke, and Plunkett (and Ceannt?) stand by. Detail (taken in 2004) just below …

The Birth Of The Irish Republic has its own Visual History page.

See previously: Easter Rising – Whiterock Road mural depicting Countess Markievicz outside the GPO during the Rising.

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