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Title: mni00086
Creator: Crowley, Tony
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Murals of Northern Ireland
Rights Information: Physical rights are retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley. Copyright is retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley.
Description: Republican mural, Springhill Avenue/Springfield Road, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. Map of Ireland, with Sinn Féin symbol; 'Britain Ignores the Force of Argument Censored'; in 1988 the British Government banned British news organisations from broadcasting interviews with representatives of Republican and Loyalist groups, including the elected representatives of Sinn Féin. Mural has been paintbombed and graffitied with Loyalist slogans 'UVF' (Ulster Volunteer Force), 'PAF' (Protestant Action Force'. Painted over: figures for Sinn Féin electoral success - 1 MP, 56 local councillors, 40% Nationalist electorate.
Republican
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: mni00086.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mni/id/313
Language: English
Subject: Mural painting and decoration
Republican
Sinn Féin
Censorship
Time Period: 1987
Source: Scanned from original photograph
Relation: Murals of Northern Ireland Collection https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/mni

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