Murals; Republicans; Prisoners; H-Blocks; Margaret Thatcher
Republican mural, Rockmore Rd., Falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural painted during the Hunger Strikes, before death of Bobby Sands. 'Break Thatcher's Back Status Now'. Image of Blanket man against H of the H-Block; at sides Tricolours topped by barbed...
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; 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...
1983
Murals; Republicans; Sinn Féin
Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1983. Sinn Féin election mural for Belfast City elections 1983, Alex Maskey elected; 'Maskey 1'; slogan 'Parliament is the Political Wing of the British Army' (response to charges that Sinn Féin...
1983
Murals; Republicans; Fianna Éireann; Sinn Féin
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...
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts on left, two Ulster Volunteer Force Volunteers with armalite rifle and Uzi sub-machine gun, on right, flags of UVF and YCV (Young Citizen Volunteers - Youth wing of UVF)...
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts on left, two Ulster Volunteer Force Volunteers with armalite rifle and Uzi sub-machine gun, on right, flags of UVF and YCV (Young Citizen Volunteers - Youth wing of UVF)...
1989
Murals; Loyalist; Red Hand Commando; UVF; Protestant Action Force; YCV
Loyalist mural, Frenchpark Street, South Belfast, 1989. Mural depicts Red Hand Commando (covername used by UVF) emblem; flanked left by emblem - shamrock topped by crown - of Young Citizens' Volunteers, the Youth wing of the UVF, and right, emblem...
1989
Murals; Loyalist; Red Hand Commando; UVF; Protestant Action Force; YCV
Loyalist mural, Frenchpark Street, South Belfast, 1989. Mural depicts Red Hand Commando (covername used by UVF) emblem; flanked left by emblem - shamrock topped by crown - of Young Citizens' Volunteers, the Youth wing of the UVF, and right, emblem...
1994
Murals; Republicans; Nationalist; Gaelic culture
Murals, Republican/Nationalist, Flax Street, Ardoyne, North Belfast, 1994. Representation of Ériu - mythological queen slain in 1698 B.C. Above image,'Ardoyne Fleadh Cheoil' (Ardoyne Music Festival), below, 'Meon an Phobail a Thógail Tríd an...
1995
Murals; Loyalist; Commemoration; Ulster Volunteer Force
Loyalist mural, Spier's Place/Shankill Road, West Belfast, 1995. UVF memorial to dead volunteers, Trevor King, William (Frenchie) Marchant, Davy Hamilton (killed 1994, 1994, 1987, 1994 respectively). Two armed UVF volunteers standing guard under...
1996
Memorial; Plaque; Republicans; IRA
Memorial plaque, Ballymurphy Crescent, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1996 (originally unveiled by Gerry Adams 12th may 1985). Memorial depicts two IRA Volunteers, female and male, to left and right of plaque. Top of plaque reads: 'This monument was...
1997
Murals; Republicans; Prisoners
Republican mural, New Lodge Road, New Lodge, Belfast, 1997. Mural commemorating various prison campaigns by the Republican movement through historical iconic images. Central image, hands cuffed together wrapped in barbed wire (invokes one of the...
1998
Murals; Republicans; Commemoration; Bobby Sands
Republican mural, Sevastopol Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1998. Mural painted on side of Sinn Féin offices, iconic image of Bobby Sands, first Hunger Striker to die in 1981. Above and below, phoenix and lark smashing chain, left and right,...
Republican mural, Oldpark Road, Oldpark, North Belfast, 2001. Hunger Strike memorial, depicting the Maze/Long Kesh Prison, with H-Block prison compound, two blanketmen, a lark entangled in barbed wire, and black and white reproductions of the ten...
Republican Sinn Féin mural, Falls Road, West Belfast, 2001. Representation of Hunger Striker, with Republican Volunteers with RPG7 Rocket Launcher below. 'Our actions are political not criminal', quote from Bobby Sands.
2002
Murals; Republicans; Commemoration; IRA Volunteers
Republican mural, Ballymurphy Road, Ballymurphy, 2001. Mural depicts two local IRA volunteerss, Jim Bryson (left) and Patrick Mulvenna, Bryson with rifle, Mulvenna with machine gun, on active service on Ballymurphy housing estate; Bryson and...
2002
Murals; Republicans; Commemoration; IRA Volunteers
Republican mural, Ballymurphy Road, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 2002. Mural depicts four IRA volunteers, three in foreground, armed, wearing paramilitary combat uniforms; four portraits of the men in miniature; below, portraits of Republican...
2002
Murals; Unionist; Loyalist; Commemoration; Queen Elizabeth II
Unionist/Loyalist mural commemorating 50th anniversary of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth the Second to the British throne, Spier's Place, West Belfast. Portrait of Queen and various symbols of the countries of the Union (rose - England, thistle -...
2004
Street Arch; Loyalist; Flags; Emblems
Loyalist Street Arch, Shankill Road, 2004. Depiction of Battle of Somme, First World War, 1st July 1916, '36th Ulster Division'. To left, emblem of Ulster Volunteer Force, 'For God and Ulster', with list of WW1 battles; to right, emblem of Young...
