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Strike Back

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Here are two more responses to the coronation of King Charles last weekend: (above and last) a Lasaır Dhearg (web) tarp in north Belfast reading “Fuck King Charles”; immediately below, an Éıstıgí (web) sheet/flag reading “Ní Mo Rí [Ní hé mo rí é/[he is] not my king]. Not our king.” in Strand Road, Derry.

Compare previously: England’s Bloody Empire and Not Our King with The Settlement Of The True Protestant Religion.

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Mol An Óıge

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“Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí [encourage youth and it will flourish, or less literally, youth responds to praise].” The emblems in the corners are of two local GAA clubs “Naomh Eoın” and “Caıırınéal [Caırdınéal] Uí Dhomhnaıll” – the “Joe Cahill Annual Tournament” was held at Easter at their two pitches.

Joe Cahill joined the Fianna in 1937 and was involved in the republican movement from then until his death in 2004, including being in Tom Williams’s company in 1942, and was later a founder member and Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA.

The new board was launched on April 4th. This is the third Joe Cahill mural on this wall – see previously Joe, Tom, Frank (2005) and Perpetual Cup (2013). The long-time plaque on the wall has been removed.

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Not Our King

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Signs in upper west Belfast (Glen Road at the Monagh roundabout, and Shaws Road at the top of Lenadoon): “Not our king”, in protest at the coronation of Charles III (see The Settlement Of The True Protestant Religion and England’s Bloody Empire).

“Ag obair do chách” [working for all] is a Sınn Féın electoral slogan for the upcoming local elections.

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England’s Bloody Empire

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“India, Jamaica, Palestine, Aden, Malaysia, Kenya, Derry, Ballymurphy, Shankill, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq … England’s bloody empire.”

A new UK monarch, Charles III, formerly the Prince Of Wales, will be crowned today. Charles has been colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment since 1977 (BBC). He is shown above with General Mike Jackson – see From The Top Down | Jail Jackson.

The list of areas listed above as sites of British Army atrocities includes the (Protestant) Shankill in Belfast where, on the same night of September 1972, two local men – Richie McKinney and Robert Johnston – were shot and killed by the parachute regiment (Eamon McCann | Irish News | AP video of the public protests and UDA statement on the killings).

The killings resurfaced recently when flyers in support of the regiment’s “Soldier F” – accused in connection with Bloody Sunday in Derry in January that same year – that had been posted on the Shankill were torn down – see Stop The Witch Hunt.

In the middle image: an “anti-monarchy rally” organised by the 1916 Societies (Fb) takes place at noon in Lifford. “We serve neither king nor kaiser but Ireland.“

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Glengormley Republican Youth

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“Brits out” and “Wear an Easter lily”. The CNR population in Glengormley has been increasing, especially to the west (home of Naomh Éanna CLG in Hightown) and south (see Fáılte Go Dtí Glengormley and, on the same Elmfield wall as shown below, INLA/Stop Internment) – Belfast North, which includes Glengormley, returned a nationalist (Sınn Féın’s John Finucane) for the first time in the 2019 general election. The broader Newtownabbey area is still predominantly Protestant, however, and there is an Orange arch right in the middle of Glengormley each year.

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The United Nations

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A trio of international causes aimed at the visiting Joe Biden, president of the United States, from Gael Force Art and People Before Profit. What’s new here is the “No 2 NATO” under the Irish Tricolour. The other two parts have been on the mountain previously: the Cuban flag with “unblock Cuba” reprises the maassive Cuban flag on the mountain in 2021, which was depicted in the La Solidaridad Invariable mural on Divis St, and the Palestinian flag with “BDS” [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] in 2018’s #BDS.

The third image shows the Cuban flag being rolled out; Bayview Media has a video of the installation on twitter.

For more on Biden’s visit, see Joe Biden, Globalist.

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Joe Biden, Globalist

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“Joe Biden, globalist. Not welcome in Ireland.” Joe Biden landed in Belfast yesterday and was greeted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (Bel Tel | Reuters). This morning, he will deliver at the Belfast campus of UU, before heading south to Louth, Dublin, and Mayo (Journal).

This is an Ógra Shinn Féin (ig | web – youth division of Sinn Féin Poblachtach) sticker in Divis Street; they also have a “Joe Biden, warmonger” version (tw).

In the same vein is the poster below from the “Belfast Anti-war group” advertising rally outside city hall and an upcoming conference at Queen’s: “No to Biden, no to war”

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Who Is The Terrorist?

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“I’m a child. They have the guns. Who is the terrorists? ‘Cherish all the children of our nation equally’? ” The quote is from the 1916 Proclamation (CAIN); it has been used inclusively for various classes (see Cherish | The Children Of The Nation) but here is applied to children.

Anti-Agreement republicans have complained about being searched in the streets and in their homes, sometimes in front of children. (There is a Facebook group on the issue.)

RNU (ig | Fb) board in Divis Street, west Belfast.

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