Author: Extramural Activity

Loyalist Westwinds

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Here is a gallery of images from Westwinds estate in Newtownards, featuring (East Belfast) UVF murals and memorial gardens.

The newest one shows Carson signing the 1912 Covenant beneath a UVF emblem reading “Armed and ready”.

The one with some damage reads, “Our only crime was to serve you, the community and protect ‘our country’. Now times have changed. As a force, our belief is not only ‘for God and Ulster’ but to you, the community, ‘help us to help you’.”

The central stone in the memorial garden is dedicated to “all our fallen comrades both in the Battle Of The Somme and fight against republicanism”.

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Beware Of The Thing That Is Coming

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Here is a gallery of (post-Agreement) republican graffiti in the Brandywell, including “$inn £einn”, “Remember the 14” victims of Bloody Sunday, and a quote from Patrick Pearse: “Beware of the thing that is coming”, from the poem ‘The Rebel’, which ends “And I say to my people’s masters: Beware,/Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,/Who shall take what ye would not give.”

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Seamus Bradley

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This installation of information and photographs relating to Operation Motorman and the killing of Seamus Bradley is next to the memorial to Bradley on the path running through Bishop’s Field (which contains complete information about his death).

There was also a small installation of photographs and documents relating to Bradley’s killing below the Operation Motorman mural on Rossville Street.

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NWO!

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This large tarp in Sackville Street, Derry, reprises a piece that the Bogside Artists (painters of the People’s Gallery) produced in the USA in 2010, on the subject of free speech. The immediate cause of its use here concerning the “NWO” [new world order] is not known.

A version of the image with Union Flag tape over the mouth of Lady Justice was produced in Derry in 2011.

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Bogside

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The eastern side of what was the island of Derry is called the Water side and the western side, although originally under water, became the Bog side in about 1600. The mural shown here, by RAZER (ig), is on the back of the shops adjacent to the Bogside Inn. There is an excellent history of the area from 1162 to the construction of Rossville flats in 1966 at the Museum Of Free Derry.

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Beware The Risen People

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Here is a selection of graffiti (and crude drawings, of the INLA emblem and a petrol bomb) from the Bogside, Derry: “Brits out now – IRA”, “BRY/RSYM”, “Erin go bragh – INLA/IRSP – beır bua”, “PSNI scum”

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A Poisonous Legacy

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“British Army/RUC impunity – a poisonous legacy. 40+ years of British Army/RUC impunity, 351 dead, 4 prosecutions of soldiers. A police force that didn’t investigate, a prosecution service that didn’t prosecute, a judiciary that didn’t convict, an army that re-admitted convicted murderers, and successive governments that denied the murder of hundreds of [?interned?] civilians.”

The Poisonous Legacies conference was held in Derry’s Guildhall on June 14th and 15th 2013, organised by the Pat Finucane Centre and the Bloody Sunday Trust (pdf report).

This board is on the rear of Free Derry Corner.

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Remember The 14 Men

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After the Saville report (gov.uk) was published in 2010, the PSNI took up its own investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday (January 30th, 1972), which is still on-going (see Bloody Sunday: Appeal For Witnesses). The Derry graffiti shown here calls for justice for the 14 people who died as a result of 1 Para’s attack. The DUP’s Gregory Campbell claims that the prosecution of British Army soldiers would be “disastrous” (BelTel). Victims’ rights groups have described calls for an end to all enquiries as “a betrayal” (BBC).

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