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Digital Title	mni00645
Object File Name	mni00645.tif
Photographer	Crowley, Tony
Subject	Mural painting and decoration Republican H-Blocks Hunger strikes
Description	Republican mural, Andersonstown Road, West Belfast, 1981. Left: the lark in barbed wire ('The Lark and the Freedom Fighter' is the title of a collection of Bobby Sands' writings from prison), surrounded by emblems of four ancient provinces of Ireland. Centre: Republican phoenix arising from ashes of broken H-Block. Quotation from Nationalist ballad, 'A Nation Once Again', originally written by Thomas Davis, leader of the Young Ireland group in the 1840s: 'And then I prayed I yet might see, Our fetters rent in twain, And Ireland, long a province, be, A Nation once again'. Underneath, names of the first six Hunger Strikers to die: Bobby Sands MP; Francis Hughes, Ray McCreesh; Patrsy O'Hara; Joe Mc Donnell; Martin Hurson.!Hunger strike
Publisher	Claremont Colleges Library
Date mural created	1981
Affiliation	Republican
Language	eng
Source	Scanned from original photograph
Collection	Murals of Northern Ireland Collection http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/mni
Rights	Physical rights are retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley. Copyright is retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley.
Type	Image
Format	image/jp2
CONTENTdm number	512

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