“End British political policing. End internment of Irish citizens.”
Ant-Agreement stencil in the New Lodge.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00669
Queen’s Parade
physical force
Damn Your Concessions, England
Ground-level wide shot from the New Lodge showing “Support the POWS” on the left and “Free Marian Price” on the right.
On the mural itself: “Níl aon rud acu ına n-armlann ımpırıul [ımpırıúıl] a bhrısfidh meon an Éıreannaigh [Éıreannach] nar mhaın [mhıan] leıs a bheıth brıste – They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit [of an Irishman who does want to be broken]” “Damn your concessions, England – it’s our freedom we want.” [– Seán Mac Dıarmada]
“Maghaberry concentration camp – End forced strip searches – End controlled movement.”
At the bottom of the figure in black on the orange background – “Damn your concessions England. Give us our freedom.” [– Seán Mac Dıarmada.]
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00668 support the p.o.w.s, free marian price
Owed On A Belfast Wall
There are houses on only one side of Azmor Street and they look across at the ends of the houses across the street (Brookmount Street) – the writing is on the end of one of these houses but the graffiti is only visable from Azmor Street. A very old piece of graffiti on an old row of houses, due for demolition. Shankill area.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00672 fuck off pnsi wptp uff, ulster is owers, c/coy, l/s
40
A new mural was launched on Sunday (Oct 7th, 2012) on the international wall, presenting five local (lower Falls) volunteers who died at this time forty years ago (during 1972): Daniel McAreavey, Joseph McKinney, Jimmy Quigley, John Donaghy, Patrick Maguire (real name Patrick Pendleton). Maguire, McKinney and Donaghy died together in an explosion (Oct 10); Quigley (Sept 29) and McAreavey (Oct 6) were shot. For further details of the how these five met their deaths, see among others Lost Lives by McKittrick et al. (Archive.org | Amazon UK | US). Biographies of the five begin at 7m46s in this history of D Company. Quigley holds a copy of James Connolly’s 1910 pamphlet Labour in Irish History.
Image of the mural in development.
Video of the parade and unveiling on youtube.
Takes the place of the Raıdıó Fáılte mural on the International Wall.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00671 danny, joe, jimmy, JD, paddy, “They shall be spoken of among their people and the generations shall remember them and call them blessed” – PH Pearse from ‘The Mother‘
RIP Alan Ryan
Real IRA member Alan Ryan was killed in north Dublin on September 3rd and graffiti has appeared mourning his death, supposedly at the hands of “drug dealing scum”. For background, see Irish Times | An Sıonnach Fıonn.
These two pieces are both on walls around the tower blocks in the New Lodge.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00834 X00823
Big Willie
This is the new plaque to “William Morgan (Big Willie). Will always be remembered and sadly missed by all his mates in Tiger’s Bay. Murdered by cowards 11th July 2002. You will never be forgotten ‘big man’.”
Morgan was struck by a hit-and-run car on July 6th, 2002 and died in hospital five days later. The car is reported to have deliberately mounted the kerb where he was walking on North Queen Street and the attack was thought to have been sectarian, as the alleged driver and passenger were republicans and the car was found burned out in the New Lodge (NewsLetter | IndyMedia).
For the old plaque, see William Morgan.
N Queen Street, north Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X05195
A Dead End
Here’s a full-size version of a recent Republican mural at the north end of Springhill Ave. The tower beyond is the Springfield Rd. police station. The “August 2010 Agreement” is an agreement reached between prisoners and authorities about treatment in Roe House, an exclusively republican wing.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00631 implement the aug 2010 agreement h-block 1981 maghaberry 2012 end forced strip searches end controlled movement, stop the torture of irish political prisoners
Marian Price – Whiterock Rd
Marian Price (WP) mural, Whiterock Rd. Launched May 13, 2012. Owen Paterson (with one “t”) was replaced last week as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after five months in office. Charges against Price were reinstated on September 5th (Slugger). See also Marian Price poster .
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00629 free marian price is owen patterson’s political hostage, end internment
Na Fıanna Ard Eoın
The Fıanna plaque at the top of Berwick Road gets a sunburst background and cut-out portraits of the four Fıanna named on the plaque which dates back to 2009, commemorating “one hundred years of resistance” (1909-2009): Davy McAuley, Josh Campbell, Josie McComiskey, and Bernard Fox, all of whom died in 1972. The vintage Fıan on the left is perhaps Christy Lucey. The medal pictured is the Golden Jubilee medal.
“You may kill the revolutionary, but never the revolution.” “Dedicated by the Republican Network For Unity.” “Strength in our hearts, strength of our limbs, consistency of our tongues.”
For close-up of the plaque, see M06728.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X05185 [X05183] X05184 [X01561]
For God And Ulster, For King And Country
A board to slain UVF members John Hanna (died 1991-09-10), Stevie McCrea (1989-02-18) and Sammy Mehaffy (1991-11-13), with poppies and image from WWI, and a shrine below also commemorating the service of the 36th Ulster Division in WWI. Frenchpark Street, Village area, south Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00608 sammy mehaffy 1972-1991, john hanna 1971-1991, stevie mccrea 1952-1989, remembering our brother’s lost lives and the human cost of conflict, the legacy of lost hopes and dreams. we come not to mourn but to praise their memory. we keep the memory of the brave, the faithful and the few, some lie far off beyond the waves, some sleep in ulster too. all are gone but still live on the names of those who died and true men like you, remember them with pride, 36th ulster division, for they shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them,
Extramural Activity 