SWD 36

Peace an Illusion! Prepared for Collusion! Two people-devouring Loch Neathach sea monsters-of-the-faith with 2 innocent victims of The Troubles, northern Ireland, sigh.

Art: 2019
Media: Ink, colored pencil, an Irish postage stamp and a British postage stamp, and a rubber stamp of an elephant; 12 small sketches I drew, years ago, of images printed on the metal book cover of a prayer book, the images depicting the Twelve Tribes of Israel
Framed, 18 ¼ in. x 22 ¼ in. [46.3 cm H x 56.5 W]

Deborah Ann Cartwright, 20, worked in a hair salon. She was waiting for her application to study textile design at Manchester University when she died in the Omagh bombing terrorism attack, August 15, 1998. Twenty-nine people died. On the day of her funeral her college application acceptance letter arrived in the mail. She was a graduate of Omagh High School. Omagh is a city located 68 miles west of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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John Scullion, 28, was shot in a sectarian terrorist shooting on May 27, 1966. A storeman (in American English, someone who stocks and organize merchandise in a store or warehouse, a stocker),  he had just got to the door of his home from a pub when he was shot. He died of his injuries on June 11. He lived in the Falls Road area of W. Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Background note on basic terms describing identification with one side or the other:
Unionists / Loyalists = mostly Protestants.
Nationalists / Republicans = mostly Catholic.

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Some background notes I culled from the internet:
Aside from the British military (which has had a controversial history of operations in northern Ireland), the main “paramilitary” (civilian combatant) organizations were:
Catholic affiliated: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA);  the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) /
Protestant affiliated: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF); Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
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PROTESTANT SLOGANS:
“ For God and Ulster”
“No surrender”
“Kill all Taigs”, uses a derogatory term referring to Northern Irish Catholics.
Quis separabit? (Latin: Who will separate [us]?), derived from Romans (Christian New Testament); translates as "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" It was the motto of the (Protestant) Ulster Defence Association

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CATHOLIC SLOGANS:

Tiocfaidh ár lá (Irish language, meaning ‘Our day will come.’) was a motto of the (Roman Catholic) Irish Republican Army (IRA).
The slogan ‘Armalite in one hand and ballot box in the other’ was coined by Danny Morrison (IRA affiliated), 1981.

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THE OPPOSING SIDES & MURAL SLOGANS SEEN AROUND BELFAST:
“Prepared for Peace, Ready for War,” a loyalist (Protestant) slogan seen in at least one Belfast exterior building mural.
“Collusion is Not an Illusion – It is State Murder.” Seen on Republican (Catholic) murals, Belfast.