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Ballymurphy Road Murals
On one single street on the Ballymurphy Road are several mural paintings. They each tell a story such as this first one highlighting political causes around the world. James Connolly is shown here as representing Ireland while there’s also one of a Zapatista and two others. Further down the road is a small but equally symbolic one for the simple reason it depicts this contemporary art work of any modern society – a small step towards normalisation here.
Opposite this is another political one dedicated towards all political prisoners from this Greater Ballymurphy area who died or were killed during the past Troubles. The centre memorial records all the names of those deceased. It was actually unveiled by Gerry Adams on the 12th May 1985 making it one of the oldest in the street.
This next one shows councillor and ex IRA volunteer Pat McGeown. He died from a heart-attack at the age of 44, on the 1st of October 1996.
Opposite this mural is another dedicated to the memory of Paddy Teer, who as it states died in Long Kesh Prison on the 2nd of July 1974, age 20. This would have clearly been at the height of the Troubles and during one of the bloodiest years of fighting.
The last one at the end of the street celebrates the lives of Jim Bryson and Patrick Mulvenna. They were killed on ‘active service’ in 1973. It’s the most creative of all the paintings since it depicts this actual street in a typical scene right out of that period. The roads were often blocked off from the army while the two volunteers are shown as protecting the neighbourhood rifles at the ready. The writing on the side of the army jeep reads Oglaigh na hEireann. This of course is more tongue in cheek since this would have been a typical British Army vehicle but the artist had obviously either a sense of humour or in the less likely of cases a jeep like this may have been captured and commandeered by the IRA.
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