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Republican mural, Falls Road, West Belfast, 2001. Commemoration of ten Hunger Strikers who died in 1981; portraits of the men over representation of H-Block and Celtic symbol, poem by Bobby Sands: 'All things must come to pass as one/So hope should never die/There is no height or bloody might/That a freeman can't defy./There is no source or foreign force/Can break one man who knows/That his free will no thing can kill/And from that freedom grows'; inscription 'This mural is dedicated to the ten brave Irish hunger strikers who sacrificed their lives in 1981. Their cause is ours, freedom.Celtic design around border with portraits: top left, Frank Stagg, Irish republican hunger striker, died in Wakefield, British prison 1976; top right, Michael Gaughan, died in Parkhurst, British prison, 1974; right top, Martin Luther King, leader iof American Civil Rights Movement, inspiration for Norther Ireland Civil Rights Association; bottom right, American Indian, representation of Leonard Peltier, Native American Civil Rights Activist imprisoned by USA; right/bottom, Nora Connolly, Irish Republican, imprisoned by Irish Free State, 1923; left, bottom, Mairéad Farrell, Irish republican who went on hunger strike in Armagh women's prison, 1980, killed on IRA Active Service, March 6th 1988; bottom left, President Nelson Mandela, South African Civil Rights and ANC leader, imprisoned by the South African government, 1964-1990; upper left, Mahatma Ghandi, Indian Civil Rights leader, imprisoned by the British, went on several Hunger Strikes. 'Saoirse' is the Irish for 'Freedom'. Other symbols in main body of image, top left, lark symbolising freedom; top right, barbed wire; bottom right, roisín dubh, dark rosaleen, symbol of Ireland; bottom left, Easter lilies; other symbols: in middle of hunger-strikers' portraits, Celtic image of Mother Ireland; at each corner of the image, emblems of the four provinces of Ireland. Republican
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