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Republican mural, Andersonstown Road, West Belfast, 1981. Left: the lark in barbed wire ('The Lark and the Freedom Fighter' is the title of a collection of Bobby Sands' writings from prison), surrounded by emblems of four ancient provinces of Ireland. Centre: Republican phoenix arising from ashes of broken H-Block. Quotation from Nationalist ballad, 'A Nation Once Again', originally written by Thomas Davis, leader of the Young Ireland group in the 1840s: 'And then I prayed I yet might see, Our fetters rent in twain, And Ireland, long a province, be, A Nation once again'. Underneath, names of the first six Hunger Strikers to die: Bobby Sands MP; Francis Hughes, Ray McCreesh; Patrsy O'Hara; Joe Mc Donnell; Martin Hurson.!Hunger strike Republican
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