Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue, Beechmount, West Belfast, 1981. Beechmount Avenue was an important locus for muralists in 1981. This mural depicts Ireland (with Easter Lily)being crucified on a cross made of the British Union Jack 'Made in...
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Beechmount Street, West Belfast, 1981. Fists bound together with barbed wire against Irish Tricolour. Mural paintbombed, local graffiti - UTP (Up the Pope).
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
Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue, Beechmount, West Belfast, 1981. The conveyor belt of justice; long mural - Republican representation of British justice system; mural begins, left, armed colonial soldiers with Ulster flag, pike, sword, beating...
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue, Beechmount, West Belfast, 1981. Beechmount Avenue was an important locus for muralists in 1981. This mural depicts Ireland (with Easter Lily)being crucified on a cross made of the British Union Jack 'Made in...
1981
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue, Beechmount, West Belfast, 1981. The conveyor belt of justice; long mural - Republican representation of British justice system; mural continues left with colonial soldier on horseback - passing on to soldier...
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; IRA; Gaelic mythology
Republican mural, Rossville St., Derry, 1981. Left, depiction of Gaelic mythological hero Cuchulain; right, honour roll of local IRA dead volunteers 1970-1981. Names have been paintbombed.
1982
Murals; Republicans; IRA; 1916
Republican mural, Islandbawn Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1982. Mural depicts IRA Volunteers in 1916, left (rural setting), and 1982, right; centre top, Gaelic, 'Oglaigh na hEireann' (IRA); centre, Irish Tricolour with the Lark of Freedom;...
1982
Murals; Republicans; IRA; 1916
Republican mural, Islandbawn Street/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1982. Mural depicts IRA Volunteers in 1916, left (rural setting), and 1982, right; centre top, Gaelic, 'Oglaigh na hEireann' (IRA); centre, Irish Tricolour with the Lark of Freedom;...
1982
Murals; Republicans; H-Blocks; Prisons; Margaret Thatcher
Republican mural, Rockmore Road/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1982. Mural depicts Republican Blanketman on the H-Blocks, Maze Prison protest for Political Status. 'Break Thatcher's Back Status Now' ; to left and right, barbed wire and irish Tricolour;...
1982
Murals; Republicans; H-Blocks; Prisons; Margaret Thatcher
Republican mural, Rockmore Road/Falls Road, West Belfast, 1982. Mural depicts Republican Blanketman on the H-Blocks, Maze Prison protest for Political Status. 'Break Thatcher's Back Status Now' ; to left and right, barbed wire and irish Tricolour;...
1982
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikers; Prisoners
Republican mural, Rosnareen Avenue, Andersonstown, West Belfast, 1982. Memorial to Kieran Doherty, died in the 1981 Hunger Striker. Mural depicts Doherty, centre, two pikestaffs on either side; 'Prisoner of War 'Kieran Doherty Murdered 2nd August...
1982
Murals; Republicans; Hunger strikes
Republican graffiti, Lenadoon Avenue, Suffolk, West Belfast, 1982. Painted during 1981 Hunger Strike; 'The People of Lenadoon Support Joe McDonnell and his Brave Comrades on Hunger Strike'. Paintbombed.
1982
Murals; Republicans; INLA
Republican mural, Divis Flats, Lower Falls, West Belfast, 1982. Memorial to INLA Volunteers Matt Mc Larnon, killed engaging British Army 12 May 1981, and Danny Loughran, killed in Republican feud, 5 April 1975. Mural depicts both Volunteers with...
1982
Murals; Republicans; IRA
Republican graffiti, Westland St., Derry, 1982. 'All the Queens Horses and all the Queen's Men Couldn't Catch the I.R.A. Again'. Graffiti refers to IRA bomb attack on Household Cavalry Regiment in Hyde Park in 1982; four soldiers died as a result...
1983
Murals; Republicans
Republican mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1983. Detail from series of murals originally painted in 1981 representing British violence in Ireland. This image depicts Ireland (Tricolour hanging from figure) being crucified on the British...
1983
Murals; Republicans; IRA
Republican mural, Shaws Road, West Belfast, 1983. Mural depicts IRA Volunteers with Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers and automatic rifles; 'Victory to the IRA'; Ireland in Tricolour to left. Originally painted in 1981, mural has been extensively...
1984
Murals; Republicans; Gaelic
Republican mural, Rosnareen Avenue, Andersonstown, 1984. Mural depicts chain of resistance past and present, from phoenix rising from ashes to figure top left with automatic rifle; 'An Slabhra Gan Bhrisead (The unbroken chain), We Owe It To Them......
1984
Murals; Loyalist; 1690
Loyalist mural, Hopewell Crescent, 1984. Mural depicts, top, Masonic Star with Red Hand Ulster, 1690; centre, British Crown over Bible, draped by Northern Ireland flag and Union Jack; underneath, 'The Throne is Established Through Righteousness'...
