Kieran Doherty

Kieran Doherty was an IRA volunteer, who died on the 2nd of August 1981 during the Hunger Strike at the Maze prison.

When he died he was 25, and he died after 73 days on hunger strike, the longest of the 1981 hunger strikers.

He is buried in the Milltown Cemetery.

Kieran Doherty, Slemish Way - Andersonstown Road, Belfast 2015

The mural, as it appears now, is the result of the new painting of 2014 which replaces a previous mural of Doherty.

This new mural reports scenes of Doherty's funeral, which took place on the 4th of August 1981. On the left corner, there are the portraits of Doherty’s parents.

Several criticisms followed the inauguration of this mural, mainly because it reports masked gunmen. Read some of them in the BBC channel and the Belfast Telegraph.

On the other side, the Republican community celebrated the inauguration of the new mural dedicated to Kieran Doherty, as it is possible to follow in the video

Below some details of the mural:

Kieran Doherty's hearse, Slemish Way - Andersonstown Road, Belfast 2015

The volley at the Kieran Doherty's funeral, Slemish Way - Andersonstown Road, Belfast 2015

Kieran Doherty's funeral, Slemish Way - Andersonstown Road, Belfast 2015

The real photos of the funeral, which served as insipation for the mural, are shown in the hungerstrikes.org website.