A Pain In The Ash

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The Simpsons moved to prime-time from The Tracey Ullman Show and became a hit for Fox beginning in December 1989. By 1991, the family, and especially Bart Simpson, were famous enough to be used in the “Shantallow anti toxic waste campaign” against a DuPont “Toxic incinerator planned for Derry”: “Ban the burn – it’s a pain in the ash.” For a history of the campaign, see “A Burning Issue?” p. 7 ff.

Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry

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Celebration Of Resistance

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The practice of republican women banging binlids to alert the community to the presence of British soldiers is remembered in this Westland Street, Derry, mural. The celebration is to take place in Belfast on Sunday 11th; the only Sunday the 11th in 1991 was in August; the side-wall was then changed for a another march the following Sunday.

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