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
Graffiti; British Army
Graffiti painted by British soldiers, Divis flats, West Belfast, 1981. 'Brits Rule Divis INLA PIRA are Bent'. 'Bent' here may mean corrupt but is more likely to be homophobic. Divis flats, the highest point in West Belfast, was used by the British...
1981
Murals; Republicans; IRA
Republican mural, Rockville Street Road, Falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural commemorates IRA attack at Narrow Water, near Warrenpoint, 27/8/1979, in which eighteen British soldiers were killed by two bombs (the heaviest British casualties in a single...
1981
Murals; Republicans; Provisional IRA
Republican mural, Lenadoon Avenue, Andersonstown, West Belfast, 1981. 'Welcome to Provo Land' (addressed to British soldiers - 'Provo' is short for Provisional IRA).
1981
Murals; Republicans; IRA
Republican mural, Rockville St., Falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural commemorates IRA attack at Narrow Water, near Warrenpoint, 27/8/1979, in which eighteen British soldiers were killed by two bombs (the largest number of British casualties in a...
1981
Murals; Republicans; IRA
Republican mural, Rockville St.,Road, Falls, West Belfast, 1981. Mural commemorates IRA attack at Narrow Water, near Warrenpoint, 27/8/1979, in which eighteen British soldiers were killed by two bombs (the largest number British casualties in a...
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...
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...
1982
Murals; Republicans; H-Blocks; IRA
Republican graffiti, Westland St., Derry, 1982. 'Political Status Now', 'Smash H-Blocks' refers to Republican prison campaign. 'All the Queens Horses and all the Queen's Men Couldn't Catch the I.R.A. in London Again'. Graffiti refers to IRA bomb...
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, depicting Cromwellian soldiers (sword, pikestaff, horse to right) attacking a...
1988
Murals; Republicans; IRA
Republican mural, Springfield Rd, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1988. 'Semtex Kills More Germs Than Vortex That's the Ra's Verdict' (Semtex high explosive, favoured by IRA; Germs - British soldiers; parody of advertisement for claening agent).
1989
Murals; Republicans; Gaelic
Republican mural, Rosnareen Park, Suffolk, West Belfast, 1989. 'Saor agus Sóisialach!' (Free and Socialist). Mural paintbombed by British soldiers, graffiti by local kids.
1989
Murals; Republicans; Graffiti; Hunger strikes
Republican graffti, Lenadoon Avenue, Suffolk, West Belfast, 1989. Originally painted 1981, graffiti in support of Joe McDonnell and the other Hunger Strikers. 'The People of Lenadoon support Joe McDonnell and his Brave Comrades on Hunger Strike'....
1989
Murals; Republicans; Colonial Violence
Republican Mural, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1989. One of series of images representing colonial violence in Ireland; here colonial soldiers carrying sword and halbert and bearing (anachronistically) Northern Irish flag) torture prisoner. A...
1989
Murals; British Army; Graffiti
Graffiti, Springhill Avenue, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. British soldiers, from regiment stationed in area at the time - 2nd Royal Anglian - graffiti on wall in staunchly Republican area.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; War Zone
Republican graffiti, Broadway/Falls, West Belfast, 1989. British Army documents referred to this area as 'War Zone "C"'; the graffiti is an ironic welcome to the soldiers.
1989
Graffiti; Republicans; IRA
Republican graffiti, Roumania Rise, Lower Falls/Divis, West Belfast, 1989. Graffiti refers to IRA killing of 6 British Army soldiers in bombing of minibus after Charity run in Lisburn, N.I.
1989
Graffiti; British Army; IRA; INLA
British Army graffiti, Divis Flats, Divis, West Belfast, 1989. British soldiers' graffiti on wall in Divis Flats complex; 'Brits Rule Divis INLA PIRA are Bent' (homophobic insult). The British Army maintained an observation and communications post...
1989
Murals; Republicans; British Army; IRA
Republican mural/British Army graffiti, Springhill Avenue, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. Republican mural: 'Victory to the Irish Republican Army' with Irish Tricolour to right; graffiti by British soldiers, from regiment stationed in area at the...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Graffiti; IRA
Republican graffiti, Lower Falls Rd., West Belfast, 1989. Graffiti addressed to British soldiers - placed at bottom of Falls Rd, ironic juxtaposition with advert for Harp Lager above ('Some Guys Have All the Luck'): 'Welcome to West Belfast. Provo...
