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You are jumping the shark a bit. I'd agree that the average person doesn't give a fuck, but the ones in the know are very well aware of how helpful (and lucrative-notice these people do not have day jobs) international solidarity campaigns are.
>Why not murals depicting Irish history
Because history was made in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s too. Before someone blows a gasket, the likes of Brendan Hughes or Joe McCann were to there communities what the likes of the Blacksmith of Ballinalee or Tom Barry were to theirs. The Republic of Ireland's Government and media don't want you to think this, and the Ned Stapleton Cumann embedded within RTÉ worked very hard to ensure that "old IRA good, new IRA bad, new communist IRA pretty good" became the tagline.
>why not non-republican heroes
Because these murals are in Republican areas. But Springhill and Ardoyne have "non Republican" murals, such as the very cool one depicting Lugh or the multiple ones which combine Cú Chulainn with Republican leaders or martyrs-just like in the GPO in Dublin. There's multiple murals depicting the Flight of the Earls, or the Potato Blight, or the Rising in Dublin, or Vikings.
>In the south you see old Irish gods and folk scenes
See above, those are up north too.
>catholic saints
Again, there are those too. Rosary on Berwick is the best known, flanked on either side by other houses depicting the stations of the cross.

So, aye, I don't think teenagers cutting about the Falls Road give much of a fuck who Mandela was. But the huge amounts of money and publiclity that come from maintaining "muh international solidarity movement" makes it extremely obvious why these things stay around, kek.

You're also saying this like there aren't literally plans to turn the GPO into a shopping centre as we speak.

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