UVF-YCV mural on a stone wall in Magheramorne (south of Larne), repainted (see the version in 2008, below) and with three flags added.
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No Excuse
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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The Will To Consume Terrorises You
Citizen Nobody (tw) paste-up on top of Big Men Wail Hammers on top of Costume Party.
Union Street, Belfast.
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End Internment – Free Tony Taylor
Tony Taylor, an RNU leader and former IRA man in Derry, remains in Maghaberry prison after having his license revoked in March of this year. (See Free Tony Taylor.) Sinn Féin last week again called for Taylor’s immediate release of Tony Taylor (youtube). The Cogús mural above is in Beechmount Avenue.
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Self-Government Is Our Right
Here is the second (of three) new paintings on the exterior wall of Casement Park in Andersonstown, west Belfast celebrating the life and death of Roger Casement. The words come from Casement’s speech from the dock at his trial on charges of treason. The quote in fact reads “Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself — than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.” As the post on the first painting (see It Is Better For Men To Fight And Die) noted, Casement made his name (and was knighted) for his reports into abuses of “human rights” in Congo and Peru.
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UDA Flag-Bearer
Rather than the Union flag that he carries in other murals and on the original Iron Maiden album cover (see The Trooper), in this version Eddie The Trooper carries a UDA flag (with the UFF symbol also shown). “AYM” is probably “Antiville Young Militants”.
See also Eddie’s Visual History page.
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The Re-Birth Of The Irish Republic
In addition to the seven signatories of the Proclamation of an Irish Republic, 9 other leaders of the Easter Rising were executed in the wake of the rebellion. The portraits of all 16 are part of the — newly refreshed — mural of Walter Paget’s painting The Birth Of The Irish Republic. The mural now includes a bright red phoenix. (For the original mural, and Paget’s painting, see the painting’s Visual History page.) In order of appearance, the 16 (with links to their WP pages) are …
(Left-hand side)
- John MacBride
- Roger Casement
- Thomas MacDonagh
- Éamonn Ceannt
- Thomas Kent
- Con Colbert
- Michael Mallin
- Edward Daly
- Michael O’Hanrahan
- Willie Pearse
- Seán Heuston
(Right-hand side) - James Connolly
- Joseph Plunkett
- Patrick Pearse
- Tom Clarke
- Seán Mac Diarmada
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Show No Mercy, Expect None Back
Above and below are images from a new UFF/UDA/UYM mural in Ballyclare, featuring the Ulster banner and Union flag, and a quartet of hooded gunmen.
A very similar slogan is used in an Eddie The Trooper mural in Carrickfergus.
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Music Is Our Drug
Five images of the St. James Youth mural on Rodney Parade across from the farm: “Music is our drug – R speaker is R dealer” and “Mates do hugs, not drugs”.
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Re-Graffiti
This republican graffiti in Rathmore Crescent in London-/Derry is unusual in that it is a re-paint — the slogan shown above (“Free All POW’s IRA”) is what was on this fence previously.
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Extramural Activity 