1. Directions 1.Decide who in your group will be in charge of the following: -Computer/controlling the ppt -Recording the information -Turning in the completed work 2.Go to my classes/homework page and download the “Belfast Murals” ppt. 3.Follow the rest of the directions: Mural Analysis On the paper provided answer the following questions for each mural : Slide # ___ 1.What are the unique images or symbols used in this mural? 2.What is the purpose of this mural? 3.Do you think this mural is Unionist/Loyalist OR Nationalist/Republican mural? Explain WHY. 4.Should this mural be covered? Explain WHY or WHY NOT.

2. The Troubles: Belfast Murals

3. Slide 1 Caption: For as long as one hundred of us remain alive we shall never in anyway consent to submit to the Irish for not for glory, honor, or riches we fight, but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life.

4. Slide 2 Caption: …fled their homes as the IRS launched a bitter sectarian attack on Protestant communities throughout Belfast. The loyal people of Liverpool held out the hand of friendship in our hour of need. Up to 2000 terrified women and children escaped from burning homes to live in the safety of Liverpool. The act will never be forgotten. Liverpool – Belfast, a bond never broken. No surrender.

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7. Slide 5 Caption – Left: 10 people from Ardoyne were murdered by weapons imported by the British Governemnt form South Africa by their agent Brian Nelson in January 1988 until 1994. Right: The consignment of weapons smuggled in by Nelson…. 200 AK47 rifles 90 Browning 9mm pistols 500 grenades 30,000 rounds of ammunition 1 dozen RPG7 rocket launchers and warheads

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10. Slide 8 Caption: Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.

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