Flags on the Shankill Road, West Belfast. From left, the Northern Irish flag (Red Cross on white background, Red hand of Ulster centre, with Union Jack, top left corner; Union Jacks; Israeli flag - some Loyalists identify with Israel's position as...
1988
Graffiti; Loyalist; Michael Stone; Milltown Cemetery
Loyalist graffiti, Sandy Row, South Belfast, 1988. Graffiti salutes Michael Stone, a Loyalist paramilitary who attacked Sinn Féin funeral of IRA Volunteers killed in Gibraltar at Milltown Cemetery in 1988; Stone killed three and injured sixty....
1989
Graffiti; Loyalist; Peace Line
Loyalist graffiti, Peace Line, Lower Shankill, West Belfast, 1989. 'UVF' - Ulster Volunteer Force; 'FTP' - Fuck the Pope; 'Fuck Taigs' - Taig is derogatory reference to Catholic; 'Fuck IRA UDA Rules UVF'. The Peace Lines are mostly made of brick...
1989
Graffiti; Loyalist; Peace Line; UVF
Loyalist graffiti, Peace Line, Lower Shankill, West Belfast, 1989. 'UVF Kill All Taigs' - Ulster Volunteer Force; 'Taig' is a derogatory reference to Catholics. The Peace Lines are mostly made of concrete and steel walls up to 25 feet high, topped...
1983
Graffiti; Non-Aligned
Graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. Centre-left, background, symbol of Anti-Nazi League, anti-Fascist organisation in Britain in the 1970s and 80s; centre right, illegible/incomplete - '?We Are the Enemy... Nazi'.
1989
Graffiti; Peace Line
Graffiti, Peace Line, Lower Shankill, West Belfast, 1989. Graffiti here is mixed - 'UVF' - Ulster Volunteer Force; 'NF' (National Front - a British fascist organisation); 'UTH' - Up the Hibernians, pro-Nationalist slogan; 'ANF' - anti-National...
2008
2008
Graffiti; Republicans
Street sign, Cavendish St./Falls Rd, West Belfast. Republican dissident graffiti - 'Boycott Stormont' - and local graffiti.
1984
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican graffiti, Divis Flats, West Belfast, 1984. 'P.I.R.A.' (Provisional IRA) 'I.N.L.A.' (Irish National Liberation Army). Streetname - Whitehall Path.
2003
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican graffiti, Fallswater St, Falls Road, West Belfast, 2003. Graffiti misspelled and abandoned; 'Conit' - presumably Continuity IRA; Republican slogan, 'Tiocfaidh Ár Lá' (Our Day Will Come), coined by Bobby Sands, painted over.
1980
Graffiti; Republicans; Dirty Protest
Republican graffiti, Falls Road, West Belfast, 1980. Graffiti refers to first Hunger Strike in 1980. The protest was called off on December 18 after 53 days; the collapse of the deal led to the second Hunger Strike of 1981. 'God Save Ireland',...
1980
Graffiti; Republicans; H-Blocks; Hunger strikes
Republican graffiti, Falls Road, West Belfast, 1980. Graffiti refers to the first Republican Hunger Strike in 1980. The protest was called off on December 18 after 53 days; the collapse of the deal led to the second Hunger Strike of 1981. 'H-Block...
1983
Graffiti; Republicans; INLA
Republican graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. 'INLA Land' (Irish National Liberation Army); 'FTP' (Fuck the Pope) - changed to 'FTB'. 'IRSP' (Irish Republican Socialist Party'); 'Ardoyne Army'.
1979
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA
Republican graffiti, Andersonstown, West Belfast, 1979. Graffiti on wall of Allied Irish Bank: 'Provisional [Provisional IRA] Freedom '79' with Easter Lily'. 'Boycott EEC' [European Economic Community - forerunner of European Union]. Political...
1984
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA
Republican graffiti, Divis Flats, West Belfast, 1984. 'P.I.R.A.' (Provisional IRA) 'I.N.L.A.' (Irish National Liberation Army). Streetname - Whitehall Path.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA; Peace Line
Republican and kids' graffiti at the Peace Line, Clonard, West Belfast, 1989. 'U T Rogues' - U T R usually designates 'Up The IRA'; 'Fred the Head Waz Framed By Roger Rabbit and Scooby', other kids names etc. The Peace Lines are mostly made of...
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA; Peace Line
Republican and kids' graffiti at the Peace Line, Clonard, West Belfast, 1989. 'U T Rogues' - U T R usually designates 'Up The IRA'; 'Fred the Head Waz Framed By Roger Rabbit and Scooby', other kids names etc. The Peace Lines are mostly made of...
1979
Graffiti; Republicans; RUC
Republican graffiti, Falls Road, West Belfast, 1979. Graffiti refers to recently elected Conservative Prime Minister in Britiain and the Royal Ulster Constabulary: 'Death to Thatcher and the R.U.C'. Underneath, graffiti from the election campaign...
2010
Graffiti; Sinn Féin; Republicans
Graffiti, Islandbawn St., Beechmount, West Belfast. Graffiti originally read 'No Votes for Sinn Féin Traitors' - altered to read 'Vote for Sinn Féin'.
2004
Graffiti; Street Signs; Republicans
Republican graffiti and street signs, Fallswater St, Falls Road, West Belfast, 2004. '?IRA' - not stated but presumably intended to be ironic reference to P (Provisional) IRA, questioning Republican authenticity of (P)IRA compared to Continuity...
2010
2010
Loyalist; Artwork
Loyalist artwork, Sandy Row, South Belfast, 2010. Commemoration of UVF 1912; stones preserved and mounted - from adjoining bakery where UVF trained in 1912; on wall of SandyRow Community Centre.
