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Give Us R Future

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“We dont want the past”. A chronicle of the Troubles in Ardoyne: Orange marches, IRA shows of strength, rioting, plastic bullets, the blanket protest, funerals, vigilantism, Holy Cross.

Three close-ups (from 2014) are included below:
Both the satellite dish and the lodge-member in the board sport an orange collar(ette).
A soldier (or possibly a paramilitary) with a rifle and gas-mask  squats against a wall while another stands behind him with a baton.
Rioters under the word “freedom” on a wall and a soldier with plastic bullets. 

For the mural when new, see J1908. The board began life in colour, but, as can be seen from the wide shot below, has now faded mostly to black and white.

Jamaica Way, Ardoyne, north Belfast.

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Cú Chulaınn And Queen Maeve

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Ulster hero Cú Chulaınn and Queen Maeve of Connacht, on Jamaica Road, Ardoyne, still without its third panel.

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Cogús

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Cogús [conscience] is the POW-support organisation of the RNU (web). On the left is a blanketman, on the right is a contemporary POW being beaten by a prison guard in riot gear. “Make a difference – Join RNU – Be committed, stand as one – Implement 12th August Agreement – End strip searches – End controlled movement.”

Berwick Road, Ard Eoın.

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The End Of An Illusion

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In the summer of 2011, both sides of the Flax St/Crumlin Rd interface were pasted with images of the view from the other side, a city scene on the Flax St side as though looking into Woodvale, a hilly scene on the Crumlin Rd as though looking up Flax Street. You can see the Crumlin Road side on Street View. What remains of the other side can be seen in the image above, along with IRPWA posters (see below) concerning “Maghaberry Concentration Camp”, calling “on Sinn Fein [sic] to publicly state that the interpretation of the August agreement of 2010 is the correct one … [and to] … call on their members and supporters to get behind the protesting POWs.”

Both the type of “MagHaberry” and the arrangement of the posters make the connection to the H Blocks of the 1970s and 80s.

See also: A Dead End

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1981-2011

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For the 30th anniversary of the second hunger strike, the mosaic portraits of the ten men to die (plus Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg) used at the Falls Road end of Beechmount Avenue to commemorate the 25th anniversary, are placed around the blanketmen board above the Clowney Street phoenix.

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In Vogue

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This piece of wild-style writing by RASER and AKEN of TMN krew (which replaces last year’s eagle) is remarkable for its location, which is on the Falls Road just past the Falls/Glen roundabout (site of the former RUC barracks). As such, it is (still) the only piece of non-sectarian art in a CNR area. This wall is presumably painted with the permission (and perhaps at the invitation of) the owners of the salon.

Glen Parade, west Belfast

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Towards A New Republic – I dTreo Poblacht Nua

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Sınn Féın’s 2011 ard fheıs (annual conference) was held in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall.

Falls Road/Glen Road, west Belfast.

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Scenes From The New Lodge

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These four images are details of the scenic mural behind Finn House/Teach Fhınn in north Belfast’s New Lodge. (For another, see X04723.)

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Join RSYM

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Republican Socialist Youth Movement graffiti with stencil of Connolly and (defunct) internet address (Fb | ig) at the site of the old Andersonstown RUC barracks.

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Save Brendan Lillis

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Brendan Lillis was imprisoned in 1977 but freed in 2003. He was returned to prison in 2009 on robbery charges. Lillis was released from Maghaberry on August 19th, 2011, on humanitarian grounds – he suffered from a severe form of arthritis (BBC-NI).

At the site of the old Andersonstown RUC barracks.

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