HISTORY - TROUBLES
- Title
- Blythe Street, Belfast, 1994
- Object Name
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
- Maker
- Bill Rolston (Primary maker)
- Description
- Muralist seen working on Ulster Defence Association (UDA) mural. Here he is painting a section which quotes the Declaration of Arbroath (a letter written by Scottish bishops in 1320 which argues for Scottish independence from England) but 'the rule of the English' has been changed to the 'the rule of the Irish'.
- Catalogue Number
- BELUM.W2024.2.34
- Notes
- National Museums Northern Ireland
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