This isn’t the first time that street art has been used to highlight McKee’s story, using art as activism.

Following her murder, there was a backlash against the new IRA and its political allies in the fringe party Saoradh. This led Lyra’s friends and activists to peacefully print their red painted handprints onto the party’s office in Derry.

Although she was just eight years old when the Good Friday agreement was signed in 1998, McKee dedicated herself to investigating how the effects of decades of violence and division continued to reverberate down the generations in Northern Ireland.

Her first novel, The Lost Boys – which she was working on at the time of her death – was about growing up in a “conflict hotspot” in North Belfast, off the road known as Murder Mile.

This is why it is so important that we do not forget McKee’s legacy, and continue to explore the issues that she cared so deeply about.

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Art becomes activism: A new mural has been dedicated to murdered journalist Lyra McKee