Light through prison bars illuminates a prostrate hunger striker attended by two women, one of whom wears a headscarf in the tricolours – this board is from 1986. Below it (visible in the wide shot) is an earlier Easter Rising commemoration mural (from 1991) with portraits of the seven signatories to the proclamation arranged around a large lily.
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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Portraits of the 14 victims of Bloody Sunday in Chamberlain Street, Derry for the twentieth anniversary of the killings in 1992. For names and ages, see the 1974 Bloody Sunday Memorial.
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Copyright © 1992 Peter Moloney
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Graffiti of solidarity between the IRA and the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation) on a container on Lecky Road, Derry. Also “Omagh.0.IRA”?
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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“Shout with one voice – Vote Sinn Féin”. A small and colourful board in Lecky Road, Derry, with a fist of protest raised to the stars.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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“The oak-grove of Colmcille” (or Columba) – the full name of Derry in Irish at the Butcher Street/Fahan Street gate, Derry.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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Two pieces of “Stop extradition” graffiti in Derry, one on the walls of the old city, the other in Windmill Terrace.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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“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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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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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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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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