The Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) logo is a Molotov cocktail with an Easter lily as a fuse. Divis Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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REM 1690
In 1690, William III defeated James II at the Battle Of The Boyne, securing Ireland for England. And in legend, Ulster was won in a race by an O’Neill tossing his severed hand ahead of his competitor. Similar battle is needed to preserve Northern Ireland, the mural suggests. “Quis separabit” is the motto of the UDA, and “Terrae filius” (“Son of the land”) is the motto of the Ulster Young Militants, its youth branch. Lord Street, Belfast.
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Show No Mercy And Expect None
Iron Maiden’s Eddie The Trooper becomes a South East Antrim UDA/UFF gunman, striding over the graves of “G. Adams”, “A. Maskey”, and “McGuinness”.
For more information on Eddie and a full list of Eddie murals, see Eddie’s Visual History page.
Castlemara Drive, Carrickfergus
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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
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Ethnic Cleansing
The mural shows people being hanged, speared, and drawn behind a horse, and houses in flames.” The persecution of the Protestant people by the church of Rome, 1600 – the ethnic cleansing still goes on today.”
Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
INLA Roll Of Honour
Six INLA volunteers are remembered on a memorial stone in the City Cemetery, Derry. The other memorial is to the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers (“They were ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances whose steadfast resolve, discipline, and unity of purpose prevailed”) and five local “comrades and friends”.
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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
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Hunger Strike
The sixth mural from the Bogside Artists commemorates the 1980 hunger strikes, first in Long Kesh and subsequently in Armagh Women’s Prison. The main figure is Raymond McCartney; the female figure is perhaps Mary Doyle (the other two female strikers were Maıréad Farrell and Maıréad Nugent). The info board is from 2007. Rossville Street, Derry.
“This mural is dedicated to the H Block/Armagh prison struggle and in memory of [the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers]. Ní neart go cur le chéıle.”
The paint-bombed version is from May, 2013, but the mural would not be replaced until 2015.
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Copyright © 2000, 2007, 2013 Peter Moloney
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The Death Of Innocence
Completed version of the Annette McGavigan mural in Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1999?/2000?/2001? Peter Moloney
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Cuba
This is half of a mural in Shiels St, Belfast. (The other half is around the corner to the right and is visible in this 2001 post.) This wall features Che (on the corner) and Fidel (in the poster above the three gentlemen) and other scenes from Cuba.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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Ireland’s Holocaust
“Britain’s genocide by starvation”, “Ireland’s holocaust 1845-1849”, “Over 1,500,000 deaths”. Completed version of the Great Hunger mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, previously seen twice in development: 1995 | 1997. The images used are from Illustrated London Newses of the time (see the Visual History page on an gorta mór).
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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Bloody Sunday Commemoration
The fourth mural by the Bogside Artists shows the faces of the fourteen people who died on or as a result of Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972, shot by the “gun-happy louts” (as described by the Belfast UDA; Vanguard also called for their removal – see the entry for Robert McKinnie in Lost Lives) of the 1st Parachute Regiment; 15 more people were injured.
By row, the victims portrayed are:
Michael McDaid, John Young, Paddy Doherty
John Johnston (d. June 16th), Hugh Gilmour, Gerry Donaghy, Barney McGuigan
Gerry McKinney, William Nash, Kevin McElhinney, Jackie Duddy
Jim Wray, Michael Kelly, William McKinney
The portraits are presented within a circle of oak leaves – symbol of Derry – one for each person.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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