Physical rights are retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley. Copyright is retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley.
Description
Republican mural, Falls Road, West Belfast, 2001. Commemoration of ten Hunger Strikers who died in 1981; detail: 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'; 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; upper left, Mahatma Ghandi, Indian Civil Rights leader, imprisoned by the British, went on several Hunger Strikes. Other symbols in main body of image, top left, lark symbolising freedom; top right, barbed wire; other symbols, in middle of hunger-strikers' portraits, Celtic image of Mother Ireland; at each corner of the image, emblems of Ulster and Munster. Republican
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