In 1987, 20 surface-to-air missiles missiles were part of the shipment confiscated from the trawler Eksund. In 1988, it was reported that a shipment of arms from Libya to the IRA included such missiles. Springhill Park or Ballycolman, Strabane. Next to Onwards To Victory.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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IRA mural in Springhill Park, Strabane. For the poster on which the three volunteers are based, see Our Day Will Come.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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For nine years, IRA man Joe Doherty, a native of the New Lodge, fought extradition from the United States. Doherty had escaped from Crumlin Road jail while awaiting trail on three counts of murder. He was eventually deported in 1992. (WP)
New Lodge Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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A frequent biblical idea about lack of faith (Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:21, Ezekiel 12:2, Matthew 13:15, Acts 28:27, Romans 11:8. NKJV) used to comment on censorship. Rossville Street, Derry. See previously: Many Have Eyes.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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“They call the killing of Stephen McConomy ‘civil order’.” McConomy was an 11-year-old boy killed by a British Army plastic bullet on April 16th, 1982.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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A call to march on the rear of Free Derry Corner, with police and army firing plastic bullets. Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Free Derry Corner, 1989 or 1990. Lecky Road, Derry. It’s not clear whether this is before or after the paint-bombed wall also from 1989. Perhaps after, given that the graffiti on the block to the right has been blacked out.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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These are the same image, rotated for legibility, of the Hunger Strike memorial in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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A line from Tone Is Coming Back Again, painted in Twinbrook in 1981: “Too long we’ve borne, with smouldering wrath, the cursed alien laws.” Tone’s profile is drawn on the tricolour in the middle.
unknown street (Twinbook), Belfast.
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A fist clutching barbed wire and an bound “H” breaking apart, with three demands: “No prison uniform, no prison work, free association”.
unknown street (Rosnareen?), Belfast
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