The faces of four children of different races are worked into a curve of celtic knotwork, feathers, and Tricolour.
“Corn Beef Tin”, Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Four Children
Month: January 1997
Bloody Sunday
The third mural by the Bogside Artists (after The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette) is “Bloody Sunday” (painted with Sean Loughrey), painted for the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It reproduces a Fulvio Grimaldi photograph of local priest Edward Daly waving a blood-stained handkerchief in advance of four men carrying the body of Jackie Duddy. The left-most figure has been changed into a British paratrooper, and he is trampling on a “civil rights” banner similar to one used to cover a body. In the background is an image from earlier in the day, of the civil rights march from Creggan to the Bogside.
Lecky Road/Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Ulster First Flute
Ulster First Flute (Fb) mural in Linfield Gardens, Belfast. Blood drips from a red fist between solemn volunteers and the flags of Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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Free Our Prisoners
“In memory of our freedom fighters who fought and died for Ulster. It was not for glory they fought nor honour or riches but freedom alone which no good man should lose but with his life.” A three-panel UFF mural in Linfield Road. A scroll with four emblems (UDA, UYM, UFF and Ulster banner); flags of the UDA and Scotland with manacled red fists and an outline of Northern Ireland superimposed with the Ulster banner, between emblems of the LPA and another prisoners’ organisation; a kneeling volunteer from A battalion, south Belfast’s Sandy Row.
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We Determine The Guilty, We Decide The Punishment
Eddie the trooper rampages through Londonderry, killing Jacobite soldiers in the foreground and, in the background, leaving Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber shrouded in smoke. For more on the overhead quotation, see The Trooper.
For other Eddie murals, see Eddie’s Visual History page.
Painted by Attitude Artists. Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry.
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Long Kesh LPOW
Chained-together padlocks represent Long Kesh and UDA/UFF prisoners of war (LPOW). For the four-quadrant shield, see Sans Peur.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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The Place That Time Forgot
Harryville is an area of Ballymena with a small Catholic population which needed police protection to attend mass. The Independent called it “the town where hatred burns stronger than hope“. With “No RUC”, “No watch towers”, “Free Róisín McAliskey“, and a green ribbon for the campaign to free POWs.
Park Ave, Derry
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All Party Talks/The Boys Are Back
Contrasting messages from Anne Street, Derry: on one hand, a demand for “all party talks”; on the other, a celebrating volunteer says “the boys are back”. The first ceasefire ended in February 1996, the second commenced in July 1997.
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Soaring
An eagle lifts the Irish Tricolour heavenward. Corn Beef Tin, Central Drive, Derry. Tony Crowley/MNI has pictures of the work in progress.
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Ulster Star
An unusual emblem hoisted on an electrical pole in Sheskin Gardens, Derry: the ulster banner on a six-pointed star with red semi-circles (perhaps poppies?) behind.
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