Pro-Palestinian graffiti on the shutters of the newsagents on the Falls at the top of Donegall Road, west Belfast.
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End The Siege Of Gaza
Author: Extramural Activity
Collusion!
“A web of double agents, death squads and deceit” involving PSNI, RUC, Special Branch, RHC, UFF, MI5 MI6, LVF, UDA, UDR, UVF. The web begins at the door of 10 Downing Street.
On the side wall of the Sınn Féın office (Connolly House) on the Andersonstown Road.
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Caoımhín Mac Brádaıgh
“Óglach Coımhín Mac Brádaıgh a fuaır bás agus é ag cosaınt a phobaıl.” [Volunteer Coimhín Mac Brádaigh, who died while defending his community.] Mac Brádaıgh was killed pursuing loyalist gunman Michael Stone, who was attacking the funeral of the Gibraltar 3, in Milltown Cemetery, on March 16th, 1988, twenty years before the board above was erected on the Andersonstown Road. After a short time it was moved to South Link.
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Remember The Milltown Martyrs
John Murray, Caoımhín Mac Brádaıgh/Kevin Brady and Thomas McErlean were killed by Michael Stone as they pursued him in Milltown Cemetery after he had attacked the funeral of the Gibraltar 3 on March 16th, 1988.
Springfield Road/Monagh Road, west Belfast.
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Hunger Strikers
Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan are included alongside the deceased 1981 hunger strikers in a gallery of portraits that has been updated annually since (at least) 2006. The large panel shows blanket-men Hugh Rooney and Freddie Toal, and Bobby Sands, the first to die in 1981.
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Colin Area Remembers
“Everyone tells me I’m a feminist. All I know is that I’m just as good as others, and that especially means men. I am definitely a socialist and I’m definitely a Republican. I believe in a united socialist country, definitely socialist. Capitalism can offer our people nothing and yet that’s the main interest of the British in Ireland – Oglach [sic] Maıréad Farrell.” Farrell was one of the Gibraltar 3 (along with Sean Savage and Dan McCann), killed by SAS soldiers in 1988. Painted by Rısteard Ó Murchú.
Jasmine Corner, Twinbrook
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Young Guns
Sixteen year-old Glen “Spacer” Branagh was killed by a premature blast bomb during a riot on Remembrance Sunday, 2001. His portrait is on a board at the centre of UDA flags and guns (and the tigers of Tiger’s Bay (which would make it “Tigers’ Bay”).
“If the Provos and the pan nationalist front and the British and Irish governments keep trying to succeed in a united Ireland then they may prepare themselves for another 30 bloody years for the battle will have just begun.”
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A Message For Foxy
A message for Foxy in the Markets area of south Belfast: “Foxy remember your [sic] only a lorry driver and don’t forget it”.
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Union Flag
Union flag and red, white, and blue bollards in Ritchie Street, north Belfast.
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Huns Out, Guns Out
Here are two images of graffiti on the cannons on the walls of the old Derry city. Above, “Fuck the Huns [Protestants]”; below, “I shagged ur ma”.
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