This is a repainted version of the Bloody Sunday mural in Westland Street, now with a purple background and white leaves. The Christian cross in the centre was absent from the original version of the mural, and added to the version painted in 2005.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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October 7th:
The Bogside Artists’ Civil Rights mural in Rossville Street, Derry, which was originally painted in 2004, has been repainted (in October 2015 (BBC)) and the portraits of Ivan Cooper and John Hume added.
See also the Visual History page on the Bogside Artists.
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Here is a gallery of graffiti in Creggan, Derry:
“All refugees welcome”, with the anarchism symbol
“Brits out, not sellout!!!”
“Political status now!!”
“IRA” and “PSNI not welcome”
old posters for events remembering the hunger strikers and current POWs
“#JFTC2 – End British internment”
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“Despite Your Bars We Are Stronger” – mural on the wall of the “Ex-POP” [Ex-Prisoners Outreach Programme] in William Street, Derry. The organisation was founded by John Cassidy and Davy Glennon (TPQ).
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John O’Mahony was an Irish-born but American-based republican who founded the Fenian Brotherhood, whose goal was to send arms and financial support to the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland (Brittanica).
His words from the IRB newspaper The Irish People are used in this RNU [“www.republicanunity.org“] board in Derry: “Every individual born on Irish soil constitutes, according to Fenian doctrine, a unit of that nation, without reference to race or religious belief; and as such he is entitled to a heritage on Irish soil, subject to such economic, political and equitable regulations as shall seem fit to the future legislators of liberated Ireland. From this heritage none shall be excluded.”
The date given is 1868, but the paper closed in 1865 when its offices were raided and its executives, including manager O’Donovan Rossa, were arrested.
Rossville St, Bogside, Derry. The simpler board is in Lone Moor Road, in the Brandywell.
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“Ireland did not vote for Tory cuts. Break the connection with England. www.irsp.ie. Páırtí poblachtach sóısıalaıgh na hÉireann.”
This replaces the hunger-strikers board seen in 2013.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Here is a gallery of images from Levin Road in Kilwilkie, Lurgan, including “One Ireland, one vote – 1916 Societies [web]”, “People Should Not Inform”, “RUC – PSNI not welcome”, “Join RSF [web] – Éıre Nua”, “IRA”, “IRPWA” [web], “End internment now”, “End the isolation of republican POWs”, “RUC – PSNI different name, same aim”, and “Ka-boom” from an RPG slamming into the side of the post office.
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“Cumann Thomáıs Uí Chléırıgh, An Lorgaın. End internment now. North Armagh supports republican POWs”.
Clarke grew up in nearby Dungannon and there is a cumann of the 1916 Societies in Dungannon (Fb) and, according to this board, in Lurgan. (A statue to Clarke was later mounted in Dungannon – see Gaırdín Thomaıs Uí Chléırıgh.)
Lake Street, Lurgan. The board was perhaps previously in Levin Rd – see The Lurgan Ambush.
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The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted in 2012 of the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll (BBC) and sentenced to 18- and 25-year minimums, respectively. The case is under review (Guardian) and a campaign for their release – using the hashtag “#JFTC2” – is under way (Fb).
Nailor’s Row, Derry
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This is the internment (or “assumption”) bonfire (and mini-bonfire) in the Bogside decked with a range of flags — UVF/YCV, UDA, Orange Order, the Paras, Israel, Ulster Banner, Union Flag – and an “RUC” land-rover.
Last year (2014) it was in the Meenan Square waste-ground but this year it is at the city walls/Nailor’s Row.
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