Irish Republican mural, 1992

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Text: You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution.

Year: 1992.

Publisher: NA.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: Mural shows Irish revolutionary James Connolly and Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, a soldier of the Irish Republican Army and a Black Panther member. The Irish flag is painted behind them, with a banner at the top showing the phoenix (adopted as a symbol of the Provisional IRA’s “rebirth” in 1969) and the Aztec eagle emblem of the United Farm Workers union in the US. The text reads: “You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution”. Exact location is Ballymurphy Road in Belfast.