“Easter 1916-1991. 75 years of struggle. Join in the fight”.
Falls Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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75 Years Of Struggle
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Mandela Father Of Freedom
Bobby Sands Saoirse
Memorial to Bobby Sands, with phoenix above (painted by Mo Chara Kelly) in Jasmine Way/Juniper Park, Twinbrook, next to Sands’s home. Two volunteers in reflective pose would later be added by local youths.
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Free Ireland
1991 image of the Free Ireland mural on Beechmount Avenue (RPG Avenue), Belfast, with two shots of the side wall. At the top, a stencilled board reads “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (The “Beechmount Five”. See Greenleft News) At the bottom, Pearse’s famous lines “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
For a close-up of the IRA plaque, see 1990’s Free Ireland.
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Markievicz Unemployed Centre
Job-seekers office named after (former) local resident Constance Markievicz in Union Street, Sligo. Now the “Intreo” unemployment centre.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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Hunger Strikers
Portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers are combined in a gallery on Lecky Road, Derry, next to a call to march in the Celebration Of Resistance in Belfast on Sunday August 11th. If you recognize the artist, please get in touch.
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Jesus I Trust In Thee
Jesus of Nazareth giving a blessing of blue and red rays while walking a paved road (Sister Faustina‘s The Divine Mercy).
Painted by Con Campbell in 1986/1987.
Moss Park, Galliagh, Derry
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Welcome To The West Bank
A reference to one of the Israeli-occupied territories. With “IRA” and “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) graffiti. The plaque in the centre is the memorial to Charles Love.
Glenfada Park, Bogside, Derry
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GRY
Francis Hughes and the Tricolour, Starry Plough, and Sunburst flags. “GRY” perhaps for “Gobnascale Republican Youth”.
Gobnascale, Derry.
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Up The RA
Republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Peter Moloney Collection 