The back of Free Derry Corner is used to advertise the 2008 Gasyard Féıle, on the theme of ‘outside’. Free Derry Corner itself is depicted under the rainbow.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Two volunteers in sunglasses fire a funeral volley over the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Internment without trial was a highly controversial ‘Special Power’ enacted in 1971. This 2008 graffiti alleges that the practice still continues under the guise of indefinite remand. The practice was used against RIRA and CIRA members. See, for example, this 2008 RTÉ report and the later case of Luke O’Neill who was granted bail after (only) 17 months.
Lecky Road, Derry
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These images are from Top Of The Hill/Gobnascale. The size of the Tricolour flying on Old Strabane Road can be gauged by the second picture, which was taken from Craigavon bridge.
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‘Dark tourism’ comes to Derry: Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber mural feature on the side of a CitySightSeeingDerry open-topped tourist bus.
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This is a poster for an exhibition by Maria McKinney at Context Galleries. perhaps related also to this initiative from the Centre For Contemporary Art, both examining the role of London Street in the city of London-/Derry.
Artillery Street, London-/Derry
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Images depicting a pair of WWI memorials – Thiepval Tower and Ulster Tower – are added to the Somme mural below the Cathedral Youth Club.
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No surrender! Let no one question the loyalty of this graffitist in Wapping Lane, Londonderry. Quis separabit!
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Red-white-and-blue kerbstones in Hallidays Road, north Belfast.
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“Between 1969 and 1988 117 residents from the New Lodge, Carrick Hill and Newington were killed as a direct result of the conflict. 22 of those were killed by state forces. 86 were killed by loyalist paramilitaries. 19 of those who died were IRA volunteers.” Placard on the New Lodge Road.
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