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.
1979
Graffiti; Republicans; RUC
Republican graffiti, Falls Road, West Belfast, 1979. Graffiti refers to recently elected Conservative Prime Minister in Britiain and the Royal Ulster Constabulary: 'Death to Thatcher and the R.U.C'. Underneath, graffiti from the election campaign...
2010
Memorial; Republicans; Civilians
Republican memorial, corner Donegall Rd/St James Crescent, West Belfast. Plaque 'Dedicated to the memory of the shopkeepers who, while serving our community, were murdered by British death squads'. Jim Carson, killed by Loyalist Retaliation and...
2010
Memorial; Republicans; Civilians
Republican memorial, corner Donegall Rd/St James Crescent, West Belfast. Plaque 'Dedicated to the memory of the shopkeepers who, while serving our community, were murdered by British death squads'. Jim Carson, killed by Loyalist Retaliation and...
2002
Murals; Loyalist; Commemoration; Oliver Cromwell
Loyalist mural, Shankill Parade, West Belfast, 2002. Mural commemorates life of Oliver Cromwell, 'Born 1599, Died 1658, Lieutenant General, Lord Protector of the Protestant Faith'. Cromwell is a Protestant hero for his role as staunch defender of...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Bobby Sands
Republican mural, Shaws Road, West Belfast, 1981.Mural protesting death of Bobby Sands, first Hunger Striker to die. 'The Lark and the Freedom Fighter' (title of collection of Sands' writings from prison). Quotation from text: 'I have the spirit of...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Bobby Sands; Hunger strikes
Republican mural, Shaws Road, West Belfast, 1981. Left of mural: slogan protesting death of Bobby Sands, first Hunger Striker to die. 'The Right Honourable Bobby Sands Esq MP Murdered by his Fellow Members of H[er].M[ajesty's].Govt'; Bobby Sands...
1985
Murals; Republicans; Bobby Sands; James Connolly
Republican mural, Bond Street, Markets area, Belfast, 1985. Sinn Féin election mural originally for 1983 General Election campaign. Mural depicts Bobby Sands and James Connolly; 'Vote Socialist Vote Republican Vote Sinn Féin'; mural extensively...
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...
2000
Murals; Republicans; Collusion
Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue/ Falls Road, West Belfast. Representation of a spider on a web; web begins at door of 10 Downing Steet (above left). 'Collusion. A web of double-agents, death squads and deceit'. Republican accusation concerning...
2002
Murals; Republicans; Collusion
Republican mural, Divismore Crescent, 2002. Accusation of British State involvement in Loyalist murders of Republicans and Nationalists. 'Collusion = State Murder!!!!!' 'The Usual Suspects', representation of suspects in identification parade'...
Republican graffiti, Carlisle Road, New Lodge, Belfast, 1989. From left 'INLA' (Irish National Liberation Army), 'Bás don RUC' (death to RUC), with swastikas; 'I.R.A.', with Tricolour underneath; 'Saoirse, nó, Bás' (Freedom or Death);...
2000
Murals; Republicans; Non-Aligned; Drugs; Community Politics
Nationalist/non-aligned mural, Beechmount Avenue, Falls, West Belfast, 2000. Anti- drug (glue- sniffing) campaign; 'The Result of Solvent Abuse can be Grave!' Mural shows church and graveyard with headstones, each headstone carries messageabout...
2000
Murals; Republicans; Non-Aligned; Joyriding; Community Politics
Nationalist/non-aligned mural, Beechmount Avenue, Falls, West Belfast, 2000. Anti-joyriding mural painted by Beechmount Community Youth Project (artists - Margaret McCann and Tracey McVerry) based on Edward Munch's 'The Scream'. Figure is shown...
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'....
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...
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. Detail depicts a prisoner on the Blanket learning Irish by writing onthe wall of...
1981
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...
1999
Murals; Republicans; RUC; Police; Sectarianism
Republican mural, Artana Street, Lower Ormeau Road, South Belfast, 1999. Mural makes link between the official finding that the London Metropolitan Police's investigation into the death of the Black teenager Stephen Lawrence (killed in a racist...
