Republican graffiti on Lecky Road. Derry: “Batman kill 10 – we will be back (‘agian’?)”
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00778
Batman Kill 10
Month: April 1989
RUC Bastards Out
Republican graffiti on the walls of Derry
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00779
Ballymurphy Youth Club
A clash of mythical creatures in Springhill Avenue, Belfast: the white Pegasus and a black unicorn.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00760
A Legitimate Right To Take Up Arms
A year after creation, the boards at the top of the Gibraltar 3 mural have given way. 1988 image of A Legitimate Right To Take Up Arms.
Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00756
Our Day Will Come
1989 image of Our Day Will Come in Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00754
Nuada & Loughgall
1989 image of Is É Seo Nuadha Rí Tuatha Dé Danann and Loch gCál together at the top of Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
See also 1988 image of the pair, with Loch gCál in better condition.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00752
Freedom’s Sons
Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00769 M00755
Uprising
The cover of Bob Marley’s Uprising album is reproduced (with an additional image of Marley at the top) by Mo Chara Kelly on the wall of his (old) home in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00759
Beıdh Ár Lá Lınn
Nine hooded republican volunteers, employing an assortment of weapons – rifles, RPG launcher, drogue bomb, machine gun – against a rising sun in South Link, Belfast. “We will have our day.” The trio in the bottom right corner are familiar from other murals, such as this one in Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00772 M00753
An Attitude Of Revolt
Tricoloured quotations from James Connolly and Patrick Pearse below the image of a kneeling volunteer with RPG launcher: “The great appear great because we are on our knees – let us rise” and “As long as Ireland is unfree, the only [honourable] attitude for Irishmen and [Irish]women is an attitude of revolt.”
Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00751
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