Author: Extramural Activity

The Petrol Bomber

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The Petrol Bomber was the first mural painted by the Bogside Artists – Kevin Hasson, Tom Kelly, and William Kelly – as part of what would become The People’s Gallery (Visual History).

It shows 13 year-old Paddy Coyle (Derry Journal) with a Molotov cocktail and wearing a gas mask (used to protect rioters against CS gas).

The Rossville flats are in the background of the mural (though not of Clive Limpkin’s original photo, included below from this gallery of Limpkin’s images of Derry 1969-1972).

Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry

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Slán Abhaıle

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British army soldiers on the road to London under an Irish-language party banner with tricoloured balloons. “Time for peace – time to go.”

Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry

The image was also produced in the Short Strand (east Belfast), in Ardoyne (north Belfast), above the Sınn Féın offices/Sıopa Na hEalaíne (west Belfast), on Free Derry Corner, and in Letterkenny.

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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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