The Canadian and Australian flags join the star and crown of Northern Ireland and the flags of the apprentice boys in Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
M00068
The Commonwealth
Author: Extramural Activity
Londonderry
The Ulster Banner (though without a crown over the six-pointed star) is flanked by two Union Flags
Bond’s Place, Waterside, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1982 LC
M00066 M00067
And The Armalite Made Us Equal
Two images from 1982 of the graffiti in the previous post (from 1981): “God made the Catholics and the Armalite made us equal”.
On the lower wall, next to Rossville flats, are various graffiti: FTQ”, “IRA”, (possibly re-purposed from “FTOIRA”?), “UTP”, “INLA”, “Bobby Sands MP”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00037 M00039
Provisionals For Freedom
“Easter 1916-72” and a large tricolour in Howard Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney (according to the spreadsheet, but perhaps 1972? Compare with M00032)
M00031
Viva Argentina Ole!
The war over the Falkland/Malvinas islands lasted ten weeks from April to June, 1982. Sympathies in the Bogside lay with the Argentinians. “Britan[n]ia rules the waves no more”, “Join Na Fıanna Eıreann now” and one other indecipherable slogan. Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00023
Don’t Let Them Die
“Dont let them die” with an Irish tricolour and “IRA”. On Central Drive, Derry and next to The Conveyor Belt.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00030
The Conveyor Belt
Four scenes from the “conveyor belt” of the British police and judicial system, including (in the bottom left) a prisoner before a single judge in a Diplock court, around an image of Ireland with a union jack in the shape of a soldier with rifle aloft standing over Northern Ireland.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00087
Our Fetters Rent In Twain
A phoenix rises from a pair of disembodied hands tearing apart an “H” made of brick, illustrating the lines “and then I prayed I yet might see/our fetters rent in twain/and Ireland long a province be/a nation once again”. Also with the lark in barbed wire, four provinces, and names of six hunger strikers: Bobby Sands MP, Francis Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson. Falls Road in Andersonstown, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00223
Three Flags
A trio of flags on halberds: Starry Plough, Tricolour, Sunburst.
0222?Beechmount Avenue?, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00222
Armalite
An armalite on the corner of Falls Road library in Sevastopol Street, Belfast (and visible at the edge of 13 Gone But Not Forgotten) points at a saracen (or Humber Pig) parked on the pavement. “Provos” graffiti is on the abandoned houses on the Falls Road.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00221
Peter Moloney Collection 