Information boards with photographs from the early Troubles are added along Rossville Street, Derry, for the benefit of tourists, supplementing the People’s Gallery. These three are to Free Derry Corner, Bloody Sunday, and Aggro Corner.
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Inside the Bloody Sunday Museum, 14 crosses, one for each of the victims on Bloody Sunday (January 30th, 1972), including John Johnston, who died on June 16th.
Glenfada Park, Derry
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An “RUC Out” road-sign is modified with “SF [Sınn Féın] out”.
St Columba’s Walk, Derry
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This is the scene at the Lecky Road underpass (going up to Barrack Street) in February 2007: above,”SF/RUC scum”, “Kill all cops”, “Vote Peggy O’Hara“, “Israel scum”, with tricoloured supports and light-pole; below, a series of paste-ups to victims of Bloody Sunday (on its 35th anniversary) and others nominated as part of Bluebell Arts’s “Unsung Heroes” project – Willie McKinney (killed on Bloody Sunday), Kevin McElhinney (killed on Bloody Sunday), “Palestinian youth from Balata refugee camp. Despite being denied a homeland, they dare to dream. Nominated by Bluebell Arts”. Here is a gallery of images from the anniversary march (indymedia) with plenty of anti-SF messages on display.
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Peggy O’Hara – mother of 1981 hunger striker Patsy – stood in the NI Assembly election of March 2007. She garnered 4.4% of the first preference votes but was not elected (ARK).
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Legislation to protect workers (and other patrons) from second-hand smoke came into effect on April 30th, 2007 (BBC-NI).
Free Derry Corner, Bogside, Derry
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The INLA declared a ceasefire in 1998 but did not begin decommissioning its weapons until 2009. The graffiti shown above (Rossville St, Derry) calls on it to unite with hard-line republicans from the Continuity and Real IRAs.
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Denis Donaldson, IRA and Sınn Féın member, was killed by a shotgun blast to the chest in April 2006. He was living in a Donegal cottage after being outed as an Mi5 and Special Branch informer. The Real IRA later (2009) claimed responsibility. Next to that graffiti is “Vote your No. 1 army” (previously seen in 2005) with a number of modifications: it looks as though “Real” was replaced with “C” (Continuity IRA) and then all of the modifiers have been deleted in favour of simply “IRA”.
Gartan Square, Derry
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“Freedom, justice and peace.” The new Sınn Féın office in Rath Mór, Derry, overlooking Eastway, opened in late 2006.
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Anti-extradition graffiti in Eastway and Gartan Square, Derry. Please get in touch if you can identify “Fergal” or “Tommy”.
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