Republican Murals 2000-2009

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2000. Twinbrook Road, Dunmurry, Belfast

Policeman firing plastic bullet, children holding crosses with names of victims.
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2001. Ballymurphy Road, Belfast

Memorial to IRA men James Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna
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2002. Ballymurphy Road, Belfast

Memorial to dead female local republicans.
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2003. Flax Street, Belfast

Portraits of Robert Emmet, Sarah Curran, Anne Devlin, Thomas Russell and    Michael Dwyer. ‘Comoradh Ard Eoin. Roibeard Emmet 1803-2003. Let no man write my epitaph until my country takes her place among the nations of the world.’
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2004. Springfield Road, Belfast

Silhouettes in police line up, carrying placards: ‘Brian Nelson, media cover up, British intelligence, loyalist death squads, government ministers, British army, RUC/PSNI, Special Branch. The Usual Suspects. Collusion = state murder. Murder = murder = murder.’
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2005. Falls Road, Belfast

Frederick Douglass mural. Portrait of Douglass. ‘Inspired by two Irishmen to escape from slavery, Frederick Douglass came to Ireland during theFamine. Henceforth he championed the abolition of slavery, women’s rights and Irish freedom.’ ‘Perhaps no class has carried prejudice against colour to a point more dangerous than have the Irish and yet no people have been more relentlessly oppressed on account of race and religion.’
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2006. Falls Road, Belfast

Palestinian woman and Israeli soldier. ‘Palestine, the largest concentration camp    in the world. 3.3 million people tortured, denied their freedom.’ In Irish and             Arabic: ‘Tiocfaidh ar la/Yom qaddom’.
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2007. Museum of Free Derry, Rossville Street, Derry

Iraqnika. Guernica in colour and bombers over Iraq combined
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2008. Gardenmore Road, Twinbrook, Belfast

Portraits of Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage and Dan McCann. ‘Colin area remembers with pride and honour Vol. Mairead Farrell, Vol. Sean Savage, Vol. Dan McCann. Everyone tells me I’m a feminist. All I know is that I’m just as good as others, and that especially means men. I am definitely a socialist and I’m definitely a republican. I believe in a united, socialist country, definitely socialist. Capitalism can offer our people nothing and yet that’s the main interest of the British in Ireland. Oglach Mairead Farrell’
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2009. Falls Road, Belfast

Israeli separation wall, Palestinian children with keys; 'Free Palestine from 60 years of Nakba! We will return'. Added later: placard held by girl: 'Zionist new year message to the west. Happy war. Christmas is over'. '390+ slaughtered, 30th 12.08'