Non-aligned graffiti, Gortfin St., Falls, West Belfast. As part of the clean-up campaign of war-related political graffiti, walls were re-painted or whitewashed. This provided nice clean walls for local kids and others. 'Free to do as your told'...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Bobby Sands; Prisoners; H-Blocks; Margaret Thatcher
Republican mural, Rockmore Rd., Falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural painted during the Hunger Strikes, before death of Bobby Sands. On left, image of scroll, with quotation from Bobby Sands, 'You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea/You cannot...
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; Bobby Sands; Prisoners; H-Blocks; Margaret Thatcher
Republican mural, Rockmore Rd., Falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural painted during the Hunger Strikes, before death of Bobby Sands. On left, image of scroll, with quotation from Bobby Sands, 'You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea/You cannot...
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
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...
1983
Murals; Republicans; Sinn Féin
Republican election slogan, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1983. 'Rise with your class not out of it! Vote Sinn Féin'.
1983
Murals; Republicans; IRA; RUC; Bobby Sands
Republican graffiti, Glenfada Park flats/Rossville St, Derry, 1983. From left: 'Rt.Hon [Right Honourable - title given to British Members of Parliament] Booby Sands OC [Officer Commanding] MP[Member of Parliament] IRA'; 'Lizzy [Queen Elizabeth -...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Graffiti; British Army
Republican graffiti, Lenadoon Avenue, Suffolk, West Belfast, 1989. Originally painted in 1981. Extract from Patrick Galvin's poem, 'Letter to a British Soldier on Irish Soil'; 'When you came to this land/You said you came to understand/Soldier...
2003
Graffiti; Loyalist; Johnny Adair
Loyalist graffiti, lower Shankill Road, 2003; former head of UDA/UFF 'C' Company, Johnny Adair, was threatened and forced out of Northern Ireland as a result of an internal feud in the loyalist paramilitary organisation in February 2003; 'Your Days...
2009
Memorial; Murals; Mother Ireland; Sinn Féin; Irish Republican Army
Republican memorial in form of mural, corner Donegall Rd/St James Crescent, West Belfast. IRA volunteer Francis Liggett (left) and Sinn Féin member Paddy Brady (right) with Mother Ireland (Éire) as the centrepiece and Gaelic insignia surround....
2009
Memorial; Murals; Mother Ireland; Irish Republican Army
Republican memorial in form of mural; corner Donegall Rd/St James Crescent, West Belfast. IRA volunteer Francis Liggett (left) and Sinn Féin member Paddy Brady (right) with Mother Ireland (Éire) as the centrepiece and Gaelic insignia surround....
2009
Memorial; Murals; Mother Ireland; Irish Republican Army
Republican memorial in form of mural; corner Donegall Rd/St James Crescent, West Belfast. IRA volunteer Francis Liggett (left) and Sinn Féin member Paddy Brady (right) with Mother Ireland (Éire) as the centrepiece and Gaelic insignia surround....
2009
Memorial; Murals; Mother Ireland; Irish Republican Army
Republican memorial in form of mural; corner Donegall Rd/St James Crescent, West Belfast. IRA volunteer Francis Liggett. Excerpt from poem by Bobby Sands - 'Weeping Winds' ('Oh, whispering winds why do you weep/When roaming free you are./Oh, is it...
Mural, St Katherine's Road, St James, West Belfast. Mural celebrates Belfast Celtic Football (Soccer) Club (1891-1949) and Celtic park (now demolished); portraits of players Charlie Tully, Paddy Bonnar, Jimmy Jones, and line from song chanted by...
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