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Another mural in Northumberland Street (Falls Road end) depicting a possible Bill of Rights. Northern Ireland still lacks an official Bill of Rights for its citizens - see http://www.borini.info/ for more information.

Another mural in Northumberland Street (Falls Road end) depicting alleged atrocities by the Royal Irish Constabulary in the early 1920s in Belfast.

Mural on Northumberland Street in Belfast (Falls Road end) depicting the dockers and carters strike of 1907.

Another mural on the 'International Wall' this is perhaps more of an advert for the West Belfast Taxi Association. Featured to the right is a smaller mural of Martin Meehan (1945-2007), a Sinn Féin politician and former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA, and he spent eighteen years in prison during the Troubles.

On part of the 'International Wall', this mural depicts Irish Republican prisoners in jail. "I.R.P.W.A." stands for the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association.

Another mural on the 'International Wall' this depicts Frederick Douglass (1815-1895), a former slave who became one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Douglass later served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. He is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice. See http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/home.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass for detailed biographies.