Republican mural, Springhill Avenue, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. Local election mural; motif taken from Paris '68; Irish Republican gagged by Britain; when gag removed talks peace. In 1988 the British Government banned British news...
1989
Murals; British Army; Graffiti
Graffiti, Springhill Avenue, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. British soldiers, from regiment stationed in area at the time - 2nd Royal Anglian - graffiti on wall in staunchly Republican area.
1989
Murals; Republicans; Prisons; Hunger strikes
Republican Mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1989. Mural sets out 'The Five Just Demands' of the prison protest which led to the Blanket Protest and ultimately the Hunger Strike of 1981. '1. The Right to Wear their Own Clothes. 2. The Right...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes
Republican mural, Beechmount Street, West Belfast, 1989. Left, Irish Tricolour, 'IRA', 'Tiocfaidh ár lá'; centre, fists bound together with barbed wire against Irish Tricolour; right, names of seven Hunger Strikers 'Kieran Doherty; Joe McDonnell;...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Colonial Violence
Republican Mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1989. Third of series of images representing colonial violence in Ireland; here prisoners violently placed on the 'conveyor belt of justice', beginning at Castlereagh Interrogation Centre, with...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Colonial Violence
Republican Mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1989. Two images; left, British hand strangles Ireland (swastika cuff-link); right, brutish depiction of Royal Ulster Constabulary policeman.
1989
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes
Republican mural, Beechmount Street, West Belfast, 1989. Left, Fists bound together with barbed wire against Irish Tricolour; right, names of seven Hunger Strikers 'Kieran Doherty; Joe McDonnell; Kevin Lynch; Martin Hurson; Tom McIlwee; Paddy...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes
Republican mural, Clowney Street, Beechmount, 1989. One of the oldest murals, represents republican Phoenic; emblems of four ancient provinces of Ireland, Ulster, Connacht, Munster and leinster, with slogans 'the people arose is 69 they will do it...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Colonial Violence
Republican Mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1989. Two representations of colonial violence in Ireland; left, Ireland, with tricolour lily, crucified on Cross of Unuion Jack flag; right, Ireland bearing a Crucifix made in Britain.
1989
Murals; Republicans; An Phoblacht; Republican News; IRA
Republican mural, Sevastopol Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1989. Painted on the side of Sinn Féin offices on the Falls Road, mural is an image taken from the front page of the Republican newspaper, An Phoblacht/Republican News; Ireland, with...
1989
Murals; Republicans; An Phoblacht; Republican News; IRA; Gaelic language
Republican mural, Sevastopol Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1989. Painted on the side of Sinn Féin offices on the Falls Road, mural is an image taken from the front page of the Republican newspaper, An Phoblacht/Republican News; Ireland, with...
1989
Murals; Republicans; British Army
Republican mural/cartoon, Cavendish Street, Beechmount, West Belfast, 1989. Ironic reference to British Army's public relations policy of engaging with nationalist residents of the area.
1989
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes
Republican mural, Clowney Street, Beechmount, West Belfast, 1989. One of the oldest murals, represents republican Phoenix; emblems of four ancient provinces of Ireland, Ulster, Connacht, Munster and leinster, with slogans 'the people arose is 69...
1989
Murals; Republicans; IRA; Gaelic
Republican mural, Sevastopol Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1989. Painted on the side of Sinn Féin offices on the Falls Road; image depicts two IRA volunteers bringing down a British Army helicopter with an M60 heavy machine gun; colours of...
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; War Zone
Republican graffiti, Broadway/Falls, West Belfast, 1989. British Army documents referred to this area as 'War Zone "C"'; the graffiti is an ironic welcome to the soldiers.
1989
Murals; Republicans; IRA; Gaelic
Republican mural, Sevastopol Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1989. Painted on the side of Sinn Féin offices on the Falls Road; image depicts two IRA volunteers bringing down a British Army helicopter with an M60 heavy machine gun; colours of...
1989
Murals; Republicans; An Phoblacht; Republican News; IRA
Republican mural, Sevastopol Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1989. Painted on the side of Sinn Féin offices on the Falls Road, mural is an image taken from the front page of the Republican newspaper, An Phoblacht/Republican News; Ireland, with...
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA
Republican graffiti, Roumania Rise, Lower Falls/Divis, West Belfast, 1989. Graffiti refers to IRA killing of 6 British Army soldiers in bombing of minibus after Charity run in Lisburn, N.I.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA
Republican graffiti, Conway Street, Falls, West Belfast, 1989. Graffiti refers to IRA mortar attack on Newry Police Station in 1985 in which 9 police officers were killed.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; Informers
Republican graffiti, St Peter's Court, Lower Falls/ Divis, West Belfast, 1989. Warning to informers, 'Touts Beware'; the punishment for informing in Republican (and Loyalist) areas was death.
