Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00769 M00755
The cover of Bob Marley’s Uprising album is reproduced (with an additional image of Marley at the top) by Mo Chara Kelly on the wall of his (old) home in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00759
Tricoloured quotations from James Connolly and Patrick Pearse below the image of a kneeling volunteer with RPG launcher: “The great appear great because we are on our knees – let us rise” and “As long as Ireland is unfree, the only [honourable] attitude for Irishmen and [Irish]women is an attitude of revolt.”
Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00751
The words of Padraıg Mac Pıaraıs’s poem Mıse Éıre are included alongside the portraits of the seven signatories to the 1916 Proclamation. It includes the line “Great is my glory, I who bore brave Cú Chulaınn” and Cú Chulaınn is pictured on the right, in the death pose made famous by Oliver Sheppard in a statue installed in the GPO in 1935. Painted by Mo Chara.
Mıse Éıre: Sıne mé ná an Chaılleach Bhéarra.
Mór mo ghlóır: Mé a rug Cú Chulaınn cróga.
Mór mo náır: Mo chlann féın a dhíol a máthaır.
[Mór mo phıan: Bıthnaımhde do mo shíorchıapadh.]
[Mór mo bhrón: D’éag an dream ınar chuıreas dóchas.]
Mıse Éıre: Uaıgní mé ná an Chaılleach Bhéarra.
Norglen Gardens, west Belfast. For the completed work, see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
(This image is dated 1989 but is probably from 1988.)
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00750
“… but employs the argument of force.” Mural against the censorship of Sinn Féin, painted by Mo Chara at the Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00748
A Cormac cartoon protesting British censorship of Sınn Féın is rendered as a mural by Mo Chara Kelly. Richard May ran (unsuccessfully) for election to Belfast City Council in 1989.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00743 [M00744]
Cormac’s four-panel cartoon – showing a tricoloured head preaching peace after removing a Union jack gag – was painted twice by Mo Chara. This one is on the Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00742
A British paratrooper (with distinctive red beret) is hit by a falling box of ballots with Sinn Féin getting the top four preferences. Another Cormac cartoon painted as a mural by Mo Chara. For the yard wall, see Arms At The Ready.
Whiterock Road x Springfield Road, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00746 M00745
A masked volunteer with armalite on Springfield Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00747
A cartoon by ‘Cormac‘ (Brian Moore) is turned into a mural on Belfast’s Whiterock Road by Mo Chara Kelly. The mural satirizes the ad below, which urges people to call the confidential telephone to report terrorist activity. Instead, the protagonist can no longer ignore the violence of the British Army (and RUC) and calls the Sınn Féın office.
1 When the Brits were having a go … “Who cares?” I thought.
2 And when something really rough happened I just trained harder to forget it … [Speech-bubble:] Anything for a quiet life, see.
3 But where’s it got me? What have these brave lads in khaki done for me? [British Army soldier:] We’re not here to do things for you; we’re here to do things to you.
4 [RUC commander:] Hey, don’t forget us. We’ve done our share of wrecking homes, harassing people. We’ve murdered and tortured and …
5 And when I saw their kind of justice I thought “There’s got to be something better than this.” [Judge:] You may think I’m a corrupt Orange bigot. But I know that I’m a very well paid corrupt Orange bigot! And the only justice you’re going to get is British justice.
6 So I made up my mind. I wanted these thugs off our backs. [Thought-bubble:] Is it any wonder that the British tourist is the most despised person on earth?
7 You see I want a decent future, and it’s not going to happen while these “hero[e]s” are doing the dirty work of British imperialism. And it’s not going to happen if you’re waiting for someone else to do something.
8 622112. Hallo? Is that the Sınn Féın office?
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M00741
Peter Moloney Collection 