Here are two images of the remnants of a poster left over from January’s Bloody Sunday March, one from Creggan with a “Boycott Israeli goods” stencil, the second from the Bogside.
The artist is given as “CH”.
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US Americans go to the polls today to choose between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for President (as well as many House and Senate elections). The poster above (in a shop window in Royal Avenue) offers some radical advice: “Nobody will keep election promises. Nobody will represent you. Nobody will help you. Nobody cares! If Nobody is elected things will be better for everyone!”
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IRA volunteer Tony “TC” Catney died in August 2014 and a volley of shots was fired over his coffin (Tele), but a memorial event was held in August 2016. To advertise the event, the IRPWA has commandeered the hoarding at corner of Divis and Northumberland streets. Catney was imprisoned at the age of 16 for the 1974 killing of Maurice Knowles. In recent times he was an RNU and JFTC2 supporter.
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Pay the £5 “door tax” and you can attend the Fernhill Flute Band’s “Full night of loyalist culture” including “Blood And Thunder, Melody, DJ, disco, ballots, prizes, and more”.
(We’ll start posting images from that other culture night — #CNB16 — tomorrow.)
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More ‘people should not inform’ PSNI posters (and a large board in Thames Street, shown below) from the IRPWA (Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association) including the arrest of Padraig McShane, along with one demanding “Political status now” with a raised fist grasping barbed wire.
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As a comparison of the first and third images – taken six weeks apart – show, a count of the days in prison has been added to the Tony Taylor board on the green in front of the H-Block memorial in Derry, reminiscent of the counts that were kept of the hunger strikers in 1981 (see, for example, Day 55 | Day 61 on the Peter Moloney Collection blog).
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Citizen Nobody (tw) paste-up on top of Big Men Wail Hammers on top of Costume Party.
Union Street, Belfast.
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The old Nissen huts of Long Kesh are rendered in cartoon style of this ‘march against internment’ poster, which has been plastered over a commercial hoarding on Northumberland Street.
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Some of the people on 35th anniversary march were perhaps among the “Short Strand Youth Against H-Block & Armagh” in 1981 but the speakers at the Dunville Park rally were intentionally drawn from the younger Sinn Féin leaders, including Nıall Ó Donnghaıle from the Short Strand (An Phoblacht).
Here’s Michael McVeigh’s contribution to the Guthanna ’81 project; he was a member of the youth group during the blanket and hunger strikes.
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Same-sex marriages took place for the first time in England, Wales, and Scotland in 2014 (and last month on the Isle of Man (BBC-NI)) but they remain illegal in Northern Ireland. Shown here are two images of Roscommon artist Joe Caslin’s massive paste-up in Hill Street, showing a Northern Ireland couple “Charlene & Sharon” (Tw) who went to the U.S. in order to marry, and a companion piece to his piece in George’s Street South in Dublin, showing two men. The parade of Belfast’s Pride festival takes place today.
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