The murals which reference Palestine make up a specific subset of the international murals, and can be viewed through the same lens. They similarly interpolate their viewers and draw power from the tradition of their form and the physical space in which they exist. They too are reimaginings of Ireland: even though many of them make direct political statements about Palestine they also create new narratives of Ireland because they draw on connotations from their physical surroundings (“You Are Now Entering Free Gaza”) and the support which they lend (“Palestine… The Largest Concentration Camp…,” “Free Palestine…”) is necessarily reflected back to be compared with Ireland’s historical and cultural perspective.
We chose to have a specific focus on the depiction of Palestine in Ireland—among many other international themes—because we felt that the references to Ireland in murals in Palestine constituted a direct conversation between the two places which we wanted to explore.
