‘Divisive’ hunger striker posters removed from 1916 garden

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Posters commemorating Republican hunger strikers that were erected at the 1916 remembrance garden in Shantalla were removed shortly after being displayed.

Deputy Mayor of Galway Martina O’Connor said that the posters were divisive and controversial, and neither the Shantalla Residents’ Association nor Galway City Council gave permission for them to be displayed.

The posters depicted the faces of the 10 men who died on the hunger strikes in 1981 during the Troubles.

They appeared last Friday and prompted much discussion among residents of Ashe Road and Colmcille Road, adjacent to the garden, and elsewhere in Shantalla.

“If you allow them up, do you allow Unionists to put up their flags? It could all be very divisive,” said Cllr O’Connor.

Éirígí, the Republican organisation, posted about the posters on social media; and their logo was on the posters.
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