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Seamus O'Malley Visitors to Belfast may be struck by the recurrence of the year 1916 in partisan graffiti. On Inishcarn Drive in Rathcoole, a mural depicts a graphic scene of trench warfare, under text that partly reads "The charge of the 36th Ulster Division at Thiepval 1st July 1916." The engagement at Thiepval was part of the Battle of the Somme, where Ulster divisions suffered some of the heaviest losses in the history of human warfare. Elsewhere, a mural on Beechmount Avenue off Falls Road shows a gunman of the Easter Rising, under the banner "Éirí amach na cásca 1916" (Easter Rising 1916). For Catholics, April 1916 marks the symbolic origin of the Irish Republic, when the Easter rebels attempted a military coup in Dublin. These two events, mere months apart, form the basis of modern partisan myths. For loyalists, 1916 signified fighting for the British Empire; for republicans that date meant asserting Ireland's independence. As one might expect, however, graffiti is rarely a vehicle for depicting a crucial, and enormously complicating aspect of Ireland's involvement in World War I: the historical fact that a large number of Irish nationalists and Catholics from all parts of the island
New Hibernia Review – Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas
Published: Mar 1, 2012
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