Republican mural, Lenadoon Avenue, Andersonstown, West Belfast, 1981. 'Welcome to Provo Land' (addressed to British soldiers - 'Provo' is short for Provisional IRA).
1981
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes
Republican mural, Clowney St, Beechmount, West belfast, 1981. Republican slogan during Hunger Strikes - detail of larger mural: 'Magge (sic) Thatcher think again, don't let our brave men die in vain'; local graffiti.
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Clonard Street, Lower falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural depicts lark caught in barbed wire - image taken from Bobby Sands' collection of prison writings, The Lark and the freedom Fighter'. On right, Ireland, also trapped in barbed...
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Lenadoon Avenue, Andersonstown, West Belfast, 1981. Mural addressed to British soldiers - 'Soldier, do you think that you have got away with the murders of our political prisoner's (sic) and innocent children on the street's...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikers
Republican mural, Springfield Rd., West Belfast, 1981. Mural painted on advertising hoarding, depicts Hunger Striker - H (H-Blocks) A - (Armagh Women's Prison); 'Victory. To. The. Blanketmen. POWs'. Names of the fist four Hunger Strikers who died...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes; Margaret Thatcher
Republican mural, Clowney St, Beechmount, West belfast, 1981. Republican slogan during Hunger Strikes - detail of larger mural: 'Magge (sic) Thatcher think again, don't let our brave men die in vain'; local graffiti.
1981
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikers
Republican mural, Springfield Rd., West Belfast, 1981. Mural painted on advertising hoarding, depicts Hunger Striker - H (H-Blocks) A - (Armagh Women's Prison); 'Victory. To. The. Blanketmen. POWs'.
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Lenadoon Avenue, Andersonstown, West Belfast, 1981. Quotation from poem by Patrick Galvin, 'Letter to a British soldier on Irish soil': 'When you came to this land/You said you came to understand/Soldier we're tired of your...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Easter 1916; Patrick Pearse; James Connolly
Republican mural, Rossville St., Derry, 1981. Mural depicts two leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising - left, Patrick Pearse, right, James Connolly
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Rosville St., Derry, 1981. Mural, left, depicts lark trapped in barbed wire - reference to Bobby Sands work 'The Lark and the Freedom Fighter'. Right, Republican volunteer with rifle, Irish Tricolour on left, Easter Lily on right.
1982
Murals; Republicans; Plastic Bullets
Republican mural, SpringWhiterock Rd./Falls Rd., West Belfast, 1982. Mural protests deaths by plastic bullets; 'Civil Order Plastic Death In Memory of those Murdered by Plastic Bullets'; mural 'Done by Springfield Youth Against H-Block and Armagh'....
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'.
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'.
1983
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Rossville St., Derry, 1983. Mural depicts two Republican Volunteers firing over Phoenix arising from ashes. Above, election posters from 1983 British General Election showing Social Democratic and Labour Party MP John Hume (rival...
Republican mural, Westland St., Derry, 1983. Recruitment mural for Fianna [na h]Éireann - youth wing of IRA. Posters below from election posters from 1983 British General Election showing Social Democratic and Labour Party MP John Hume (rival...
1983
Murals; Republicans; Derry; Londonderry
Republican mural, Westland St., Derry, 1983. Graffiti refers to controversy over name of the city - Londonderry, the name given by the pro-British colonists in the 17th century, and Derry, the name used by nationalists and Republicans. The name of...
1983
Murals; Republicans; Na Fianna Éireann; Easter 1916
Republican mural, Westland St., Derry, 1983. Recruitmnent mural for Na Fianna Éireann (Fianna na hÉireann - youth wing of IRA). Myral depicts IRA Volunteer in paramilitary dress to left; middle - Easter Lily above 'Easter 1916'; right 'Na Fianna...