Not Catholics versus Protestants but atheists versus believers. Contradictory pieces from the towpath running along the Bann, out of Portadown and towards Newry. The first says “No Gods. No Masters”. The second says “The fool hath said there is no God.”
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Here is another piece of graffiti in response to the death of Margaret Thatcher, outside the Royal Victoria hospital on the Falls Road: “Iron Lady? Rust In Peace”, with “Upara” – Up The (I)RA. Thatcher was given the sobriquet by the Soviet army newspaper Red Star in 1976, apparently in imitation of the “Iron Chancellor”, Otto von Bismarck (WP).
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Reaction to the death (on Monday, April 8th) of Margaret Thatcher, U.K. Prime Minister 1979-1990 (WP), in an alley below Divis flats, between Divis Street and Clonfaddan Crescent.
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This graffiti in Portadown is related to the on-going protest over the flying of the Union Flag at Belfast City Hall.
See previously: Let Your Union Flag Fly | Imagine | And So This Is Christmas.
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An electrical box and light-post painted in the colours of the Irish tricolour by dissident republicans in the Bogside in Derry. “BRY” is “Bogside Republican Youth”
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Dissident republican graffiti, done with a marker, in the area around the Bogside Inn, at the bottom of Westland Street, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.
On the left-hand side we have “INLA” and a five-pointed star, a flag (featuring a sunburst and the plough in the stars), “F T PSNI”, “SS RUC” on a tricolour, “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) and “BRAG” (Bogside Republican Action Group) and “we fear no loyalists”.
On the right-hand side we have “Free Gaza”, “Hamas” with Palestinian and Irish flags, “BRY” and starry plough and tricolour, “Fuck Sınn Féın sellouts” and “ONH” (Óglaıgh na hÉıreann).
See previously: BRAG
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“You are now entering Free Derry” – Free Derry Corner with The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette murals in the background.
For a Visual History of the gable, see Free Derry Corner.
(A copy (in Belfast) of one of the flyers on the side of the wall in the first image above can be seen in End Impunity.)
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As a member of the IRA, Price was jailed for the Old Bailey bombing in 1973, and her post-Agreement license was revoked in May, 2011, when she was charged, as a member of the Real IRA, in connection with the Massereene Barracks shooting of 2009 – she was sent to Maghaberry. IRPWA graffiti in Gartan Square, and at the Eastway roundabout, Derry.
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“In God We Trust” on a wall jutting out/continuing on from the main “peace” line, in The Fountain, Londonderry.
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“IRA” daubed on a wall in The Fountain, Londonderry, painted over with an impromptu and almost colourless Union jack that also looks like an asterisk.
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