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Title
mni00550
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
Loyalist mural, Hopewell Avenue, Lower Shankill, West Belfast, 2000. Mural commemorates Stevie McCrea, killed by IPLO (Irish People's Liberation Organisation -breakaway group from INLA) in 1989; mural depicts Red Hand Commando flags and insignia (RHC - a small group closely associated with the Ulster Volunteer Force), over memorial, flanked by two armed RHC volunteers (who appear in the form of regular soldiers); inscription to the right: 'For he shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary him, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember him' (poem by WW1 poet Laurence Binyon); visible to the right is Crumlin Road jail.
Loyalist
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Identifier
mni00550.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mni/id/128
Language
English
Subject
Mural painting and decoration
Loyalist
Memorials
Red Hand Commando
Time Period
2000
Source
Scanned from original photograph
Relation
Murals of Northern Ireland Collection https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/mni

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