Republican Murals 2000-2009
2005. Divis Street, BelfastFrederick 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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2008. Gardenmore Road, Twinbrook, BelfastPortraits 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 Mired Farrell.’
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