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Killing With Impunity

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2013-03-06 LatuffImpunity+

Line drawing in Derry/Doıre by Carlos Latuff showing an army soldier, with “impunity” across his shoulders, taking aim at a blind-folded woman, representing martyrs’ families.

Latuff is a Brazilian political cartoonist (web site). This piece is outside the Free Museum of Derry (pictures of the piece in progress). Just out of shot (to the right) is an actual bullet-hole from Bloody Sunday. He also added a drawing to Free Derry corner (M08306). On the same visit (July 2012), he worked in Belfast on a mural expressing solidarity between Palestinian and republican POWs and also did a line drawing on a café wall. (See also: Latuff cartoon used in a flyer for a rally to End Impunity.)

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Easter Re-Union

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“Ardoyne, Bone & Ligoniel Easter Re-Union, on Tuesday 2nd April, Crumlin Star social club, 8 til late, with prominent guest speaker, traditional Irish night, followed by disco. Taıle [entrance fee] £5.00”.

In CNR north Belfast.

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Red Fist

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2013-03-29 BangorUFF+

An Ulster Freedom Fighters mural in Bangor, to the northeast of Belfast. The mural is at the edge of a Loyalist estate which is on high ground; it (and its companion) overlook and dominate a major junction on a network of roads around the town.

Some previous non-palm (and non-UDA) red hands: Proud, Defiant, Welcoming | I Would Give My Right Hand

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The Culture Wars

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2013-02-13 IRAUnionAsterisk+

“IRA” daubed on a wall in The Fountain, Londonderry, painted over with an impromptu and almost colourless Union jack that also looks like an asterisk.

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Lest We Forget

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2013-02-27 EmersonSt+

A mural in Emerson Street, Londonderry, featuring UFF/UDA volunteer Cecil McKnight and additionally naming Lindsay Mooney, Ray Smallwoods, Gary Lynch, Ben Redfern, and William Campbell. McKnight is shown standing in front of a mural in the adjacent Bond’s place circa 1990 (facing the Trooper mural). The Londonderry crest (left of centre, over McKnight’s right shoulder,) is featured in the mural in Vita, Veritas, Victoria.

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Stevie McCrea

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Red Hand Commando volunteer Stevie McCrea was sentenced to 16 years for the murder of James Kerr in 1972 (Behind The Mask) and was subsequently “murdered by the enemies of Ulster” on February 18th, 1989 in an IPLO attack on the Orange Cross (see M00560 | WP).

“For he shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary him nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him.”

McCrea is included on murals in south Belfast’s Frenchpark Street and Broadway (dating back to at least 1993).

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Where Youth And Laughter Go

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2013-03-13 TrevorKing+

Mural in Disraeli Street to Trevor King, to the left of the old Brian Robinson mural and two gables to the right of the new Brian Robinson mural. Having been shot by the INLA and paralysed from the neck down, King took the decision to remove his own life-support (WP).

The words on the left are from Suicide In The Trenches by WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon:

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads pass by
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go

The poem refers to a soldier whose naturally cheerful disposition has been overwhelmed by the horrors of war.

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X01014 lt. col. trevor king y.c.v. for gold and ulster u.v.f. 1912 1st belfast battaltion ‘b’ company; in proud and loving memory of james ulster volunteer force died 9th july 1994 at the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember 14th battalion royal irish rifles somme ypres arras thiepval young citizen volunteers st, quentin grandcourt messines fricourt

For All Time

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2013-03-12 RobinsonOld+

This is the second mural to Brian Robinson in Disraeli Street. This is a much older one than the one featured on Extramural Activity a few days ago; versions of this mural on this gable go back to at least 1993. Note that the artist has included a transmitter or surveillance tower on the skyline

See the previous post for more details of his death.

A close-up of the plaque is below. As the plaque notes, his mother died at the same time –she reportedly had a heart-attack when she heard of his death.

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X01012 X01013 In proud and loving memory of Vol. brian robinson “b” coy. 1st belfast battalion ulster volunteer force killed in action 2nd september 1989 also his loving mother margaret robinson died 3rd september 1989, for god and ulster p.a.f.  protestant action U.v.f. for his country and people he took up the gun a volunteer to the end and a true ulster son robbed of his life’s-blood sept. ’89 but his name will live for all time, y.c.v. royal irish rifles st. quentin grand court messines

Béırıgí Bua

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2013-03-24 ColinGibraltar2+

A new, computer-designed and -printed board in Twinbrook/Cıll Uaıghe, with painted lettering below, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Gibraltar killings and subsequent attack on the funeral in Milltown cemetery (for which see also 25 Years – Complete and In Progress).

One of the twin brooks is Colin Burn, which runs through the Colin Glen forest park; Cıll Uaıghe is reflected in the name of the nearby Kilwee industrial estate. Strictly speaking, this piece is ‘beyond Belfast’, as Poleglass and Twinbrook are under the jurisdiction of Lisburn City Council.

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X02322 remembering the tragic events surrounding the unlawful execution of ira volunteers in gibralter gibraltar by the sas on the 6th march 1988, the shooting of vol. kevin mccracken in the defence of the community, the murderous attack on the gibraltar funeral by a british state sponsored assassin and killing of mourners john murray thomas mcerlean vol. caoımhín mac brádaıgh sean savage maıréad farrell dan mccann, i ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne, always remembered with pride by the people of the colin area

Leaving Free Derry

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2013-03-07 DerryFuneral+

A funeral cortège heads up Rossville Street/Lecky Road in Derry, past Free Derry Corner and the ‘Bernadette’ mural (featuring Bernadette McAliskey and the battle of the Bogside) in ‘The People’s Gallery‘.

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