Graffiti; Loyalist; Michael Stone; Milltown Cemetery
Loyalist graffiti, Village/Southlink, South Belfast, 1988. Graffiti refers to actions of Michael Stone, a Loyalist paramilitary who attacked Sinn Féin funeral of IRA Volunteers killed in Gibraltar at Milltown Cemetery in 1988; Stone killed three...
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...
1981
Graffiti; Loyalist; UVF; Hunger strikes
Loyalist mural, Sandy Row, East Belfast, 1981. Ulster Volunteer Force graffiti, anti-Republican Hunger Striker Bobby Sands: 'Support the UVF Sands Rot in Hell'.
2004
Graffiti; Murals; Republicans; Palestine; Israel
Republican mural and graffiti, Iveagh Parade, Falls Road, West Belfast 2004. 'Continuity IRA' graffiti: Continuity IRA was formed as a breakaway paramilitary group from the IRA after Republican Sinn Féin broke with Sinn Féin in 1986 on the...
1983
Graffiti; Non-Aligned
Graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. Centre-left, background, 'Celtic' (Celtic Football Club in Glasgow is the team which Northern Irish Catholics traditionally follow); local graffiti.
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'.
2010
Graffiti; Non-Aligned
Graffiti, St James Park, St James, West Belfast. 'Fear is used to control you'.
2010
Graffiti; Non-Aligned;
Graffiti, Islandbawn St, Beechmount, West Belfast. 'Smash the Fascism' 'Diversity Unity' 'Smash the Racist Oi!' 'Nazis Out'; Red Star; Hammer and Sickle; UTH (Up the Hoods).
1983
Graffiti; Non-Aligned; ANL
Graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. Centre-right, background, symbol of Anti-Nazi League, anti-Fascist organisation in Britain in the 1970s and 80s.
2010
Graffiti; Non-Aligned; Censorship;
Grafitti, St James Rd., West Belfast. 'Reject Censors'.
1983
Graffiti; Non-Aligned; Republicans
Graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. Background from left: 'IRA'; 'Smash H-Block'; 'Brits Out'; 'Unity Skins'; 'Unity Skinheads'.
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.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican graffiti, Springhill Crescent, Ballymurphy, 1989. Slogan addressed to local regiment of British Army stationed in area at the time.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican/local graffiti at Cupar Street, Falls, West Belfast, 1989. Barrier to close off Cupar Street and prevent free access for security purposes; kids graffiti and 'Cupar Reaction Force'.
1984
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican graffiti, Lenadoon Avenue, Suffolk, West Belfast, 1984. 'Bonanza R.I.P'. INLA Volunteer Paul 'Bonanza' Mc Cann was killed in a shoot-out in disputed circumstances in a police raid on a house in Lenadoon Avenue in which a policeman was...
1983
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. 'Join The Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement'; Patsy O'Hara was one of the Republican Hunger Strikers in 1981.
1983
Graffiti; Republicans
Republican graffiti, Unity Flats, Belfast City Centre, 1983. Left, background, 'Provos' 'IRA'.