“IRA Hunger Striker Óglach Joe McDonnell 1951-1981.” McDonnell was the fifth striker to die, on July 8th, after 61 days.
Shaws Road, west Belfast
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Óglach Joe McDonnell
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Stop At Nothing
“Our rulers will stop at nothing to attain their ends. They will continue to rule and rob until confronted by men who will stop at nothing to overthrow them.” The quote is from James Connolly on Conscription in 1915. Local volunteer Joe McDonnell is portrayed between the names of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers. Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast.
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Blight
“Nature sent the potato blight, government & landlords created the famine.” A woman kneeling between two gravestones inspects a rotten potato during the Great Hunger (Visual History).
Lenadoon Avenue, west Belfast
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Bleed Black & White
St Oliver Plunkett FC, [founded] 1969, (Fb) with portraits of Philip Mulryne, Anton Rogan, Jim Magillen, Paul McVeigh, Jackie, next to Lenadoon Park, where the team plays its home games.
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Léana An Dúın – Unbowed Unbroken
The main Lenadoon mural is refreshed and more portraits and a plaque added (on the right). The dying Cú Chulaınn (as portrayed in bronze by Oliver Sheppard, in a statue installed in the GPO in 1935) is used as a symbol for the locals from Lenadoon (including IRA volunteers) who fought for freedom (“saoırse”). They are listed on the scrolls to each side and in the portraits in the apex: Tony Henderson, John Finucane, Brendan O’Callaghan, Joe McDonnell, Laura Crawford, Maıréad Farrell, Patricia Black, Bridie Quinn (previously listed as Bridie O’Neill).
For the previous version (though without the three faces it initially had, of O’Callaghan, McDonnell, and Farrell) see M01934.
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Che & Messi
Heroes of the revolution – Che Guevara and … Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi?
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The Celtic Bar
Charlie Tully, born in the Pound Loney in 1924, played for Belfast Celtic (1944-1948) and Glasgow Celtic (1948-1959) (WP | CharlieTully.com). The mural is on the back of the Celtic Bar on the Falls Rd/Waterford St.
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Ní Thıg Leat
“Ballymurphy unbowed, unbroken” with images of Ballymurphy including the mural of McCrudden-O’Rawe–Jordan and memorial garden on Divismore Way (left) and Springhill (right). The male figures in the foreground are unnamed but the four in jackets are presumably Stone, McWilliams, McCracken, and Dougal after their mural in Springhill Drive was blanked; the female activists on the left of Cú Chulaınn are Mary Austin, Kathleen Clarke, Annie McWilliams. “This mural was unveiled by Gerry Adams MP 2nd May 2010.”
“Ní thıg leat Éıre a chloígh, ní thıg leat fonn saoırse mhuıntır na hÉıreann a mhúc[h]adh.” [“You cannot subdue Ireland; you cannot extinguish the desire for the freedom of the Irish people.”]
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38 Days
Saor Uladh member Liam Hannaway went on hunger strike in protest at being held in a Special Supervision Unit at Maghaberry prison rather than with other republican prisoners. He ended his fast when he was moved to a hospital ward after 42 days. For more see RN | BBC-NI.
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