More pro-Palestinian work, this time in Lecky Road, Derry, expressing solidarity between the PLO’s struggle in the Second Intifada and the IRA’s (Óglaıgh na hÉıreann) during the Troubles and perhaps continuing beyond the Good Friday Agreement.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01764
This is the first full mural from the IRPWA in the Collection (after a 2001 flag in Derry and some 2002 writing in Belfast). It calls for segregation in Portlaoise, Maghaberry, and English jails.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01758 [M01760]
“Bietan jarrai” is the slogan of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [Basque Country and Freedom]) and means “Keep on with both”, referring to the snake (politics) and the axe (armed struggle). “Borrokarako dei eginaz irrintzi bat dabil” means “the call to battle is a piercing one” from the song Batasuna. “Tıocfaıdh ár lá” is Irish for “Our day will come”.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01752
Pat Hughes was a former British Army soldier who later joined the IRA and was killed in an accidental explosion (in 1972). He is remembered along with Edward Grant (1973), Michael Hughes (1974), Brendan Watters (1984), Colm Marks (1991). Together the five are known as the “Derrybeg Martyrs”.
Main Avenue, Newry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01734
Board on Camlough Road, Newry, calling for political status for republican prisoners in Maghaberry. For the bus shelter and the IRA on the lamp-post, on the left, see Bus Shelters Of The Revolution and IRA For the hunger striker/political status board on the right, see Political Status Denied.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01735
“I ndılchuımhne orthu sıúd a bhaın le ceantar Dhoıre Beag agaus a fuaır bás as son saoırse na hÉıreann. Ar dheıs Dé go raıbh a n-anamacha. Erected in proud and loving memory of all those associated with the townland of Derrybeg who fought and died in Ireland’s struggle for freedom. Muıntır Dhoıre Beag a thóg an leacht cuımhneacháın seo. Nochtadh é um Cháısc 1996. [This monument erected by the people of Derrybeg. Unveiled Easter 1996.]”
Derrybeg, Newry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01732
Two “IRA” nail-ups, both in Newry, one in Derrybeg with an Easter lily, the other on Camlough Road with a Tricolour.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01733 M01736
Bus shelters in Camlough Road, Newry, painted with a Starry Plough (for the INLA) and a Tricolour (for the IRA).
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01737 M01738
IRA volunteer Dennis (or Denis, according to Sutton, and thence lots of others) Heaney was kill on June 10th, 1978 by an undercover British Army member whilst attempting to hijack a car, near the spot of this plaque to his memory in Harvey Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01731
Two-colour mural of the GPO and an Irish rebel. The third digit of the date in the lower right-hand corner has been blocked out by the addition of a lamp-pole but is believed to be an “8”. Courtrai Park, Strabane.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01730
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