archaeography

Divismore Way, Ballymurphy, Belfast - April 2006.

This image depicts four IRA volunteers sitting around a table in a local house equipped with an assortment of weapons, cups of tea and cakes. The volunteers are being supplied the refreshments by two elderly ladies. One of the volunteers is also recreated larger on the right hand side of the house. The mural is bordered by ‘celtic’ knot-work, punctuated by the four provincial shields of Ireland. I was informed that the image represented that some volunteers could not live in their own houses, and therefore had to find refuge in the local community, who hid and nourished them.