Murals in Clondara Street
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Murals in Clondara Street
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 27 Apr 2012
These murals are unique in that they commemorate members of OIRA (Official IRA). OIRA advocated only defensive action against state forces and the protestant paramilitaries - and hence were known by the more militant factions of the republican movement as "the stickies". The green and yellow mural commemorates the OIRA Belfast leader Liam McMillen, quoting his Bodenstown speech, June 28th 1973. "We stand not on the brink of victory, but on the brink of sectarian disaster" McMillen, shot dead in 1975 by members of the rival PLA (a cover name for the Irish National Liberation Army INLA) is portrayed on the mural together with a silhouette of republican gunman. The other main mural depicts Joe McCann, an OIRA Staff Captain who was killed escaping arrest by the Security Forces in 1973. The roundels portray the plough, a republican symbol, and James Connolly the Scottish-born socialist republican executed after the 1916 uprising.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.588207
Longitude
-5.970141