Graffiti in support of republican prisoners in Maghaberry. Central Drive, Derry. The Irish Times profiled the prison in 2017.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01600
Political Status In Maghaberry
CNR
RIRA
Real IRA graffiti in Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01597
We Support The Wyanes From Ardoyne
Holy Cross Catholic girls’ primary school, situated in loyalist Ardoyne, Belfast, was picketed by locals in late June, 2001 and throughout the autumn term, on the grounds that they and their homes were being attacked in the area. Images of young children (wee’uns or wains) being ushered through a police cordon while subjected to abuse made headlines around the world and prompted the two graffiti in this post,
St Columb’s Wells and Bligh’s Lane, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01599 M01595
Political Status Now!
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
M01593
The Saturday Matinee
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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Copyright © 2001/2007 Peter Moloney
M01594 M03922
Féıle Na Samhna
“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
M01592
Ulster, Leinster, Connacht
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
M01591 M01590 M01596
Remember The Hunger Strikers
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
M01589
Peace Or War?
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
M01586
Sniper (Back) At Work
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
M01585
