Peter Moloney has been collecting ephemera (postcards, posters, badges, handkerchiefs, etc.) since 1966 and taking pictures of murals, memorials, parades, military installations, and anything political since the early 70s, initially focusing on Derry but with increasing attention to Belfast and other cities and towns.

He has given his collection to a partnership of institutions for archival and display. The ‘Peter Moloney Partnership’ consists of LibrariesNI, Free Derry Museum, and Tower Museum. Some of the items can be seen digitally at CAIN. The CAIN site includes a short video introduction by Peter; there is a 45-minute audio recording of Peter talking (and singing!) about the collection and specific pieces from it at the launch of items from his collection in Tower Museum in 2018.

In addition, the images of murals, graffiti, and memorial in the north of Ireland are being made available by Extramural Activity at this web site, Peter Moloney Collection – Murals. The images are being added chronologically; as of the end of 2023, it has reached the images from August 2013.

(Please note: The first images to be dated by a digital camera (with day, month, and year) are from August 2006. For images prior to August 2006, images are assigned dates sequentially from January 1st onward in the order they appear in the collection; these months/days are not the month/day on which the photograph was taken – only the year is accurate.)

Peter strolling the streets of Newtownards (X06435)