Physical rights are retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley. Copyright is retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley.
Description
Republican mural, Whiterock Road, Ballymurphy, 1999. Mural depicts the Famine which took place between 1845-9, in the year of the 150th anniversary. Figure of woman with child begging at bottom, to the left and right: children scavenging in the fields for potatoes with woman and child working the fields and harvesting the failed crop; middle image father and child; 'An Gorta Mór' (The Great Hunger/Famine); 'Britain's genocide by starvation'; 'Ireland's Holocaust 1845-1849'; 'Over 1,500,000 deaths'. Celtic embroidery; name of artist - Gerard Kelly - and date at bottom right. Republican
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