An early IRPWA [Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association] flag, a Tricolour with a gunman and fists in manacles, demanding “political status now!” in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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This mural is popularly known as ‘Saturday Matinee’ because young people in Derry would spend Saturdays (and many other days) rioting against the British Army, which had been deployed in August 1969 after the Battle Of The Bogside. The official title is The Rioter and it is the eighth mural from the Bogside Artists in The People’s Gallery. The original photograph on which the mural is based is by Clive Limpkin.
Replaces Nothing Has Changed.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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“Féıle na Samhna – ceılıúradh na nGael” (Samhain festival – celebration of the Irish” at An Gaeláras Doıre (now Cultúrlann Uí Chanáın).
Rear of Free Derry corner, Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Shields of three of the four provinces on light poles in Westland Street, Derry, augmented with “RIRA”, “Celtic”, “RIP Bobby Sands” and Tricolours and Sunburst.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The lark is at the centre of 12 hunger strikers (1981 + Gaughan and Stagg).
Moneynick Road, Toome
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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This graffiti might be from the period of the ceasefires or from after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and its implementation, when the IRA moved toward decommissioning its weapons, beginning to do so in October 2001. Racecourse Road, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The Housing Executive/European Regional Development Fund plaque is presumably not for this “road sign” of the celebrating sniper! See previously: Free Derry Corner 1996 | The Boys Are Back.
Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The imagery runs the gamut from a koala, a Native American, a tricoloured shamrock, and a donkey between curtains, to hurleys and The Petrol Bomber, to Bart Simpson. Drumleck Drive, Derry.
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The first mural to Scottish soccer team Celtic (and local team Derry City) in the collection. There is a shamrock in the bottom right.
Drumleck Drive, Shantallow, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The “P” make it clear that it’s the Provisionals who are being criticised for surrendering.
Eastway, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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