Volunteers fire a funeral volley beneath a complete trio of republican flags: the Sunburst, the Tricolour, and the Starry Plough. Shantallow, Derry.
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Bobby Sands – Che Guevara
Like the “Heroico” image of Che Guevara – see the Visual History page on Jim Fitzpatrick – the smiling Bobby Sands would become the standard one. They differ in that Che is in his uniform (attending a funeral service) while Sands is in civilian clothes, and the attire indicates that Che is a military hero while Sands, who was an IRA volunteer, would become an icon primarily as a hunger-striker. (See the Visual History page on the Sevastopol Street mural of Sands.)
In this mural, which pre-dates the refinement of Sands’s image, the two portraits are combined. Sands is accompanied by flag-bearing Irish volunteers and Che by a Soviet orator (Lenin?) on a tank. perhaps to emphasise the socialist dimension of the republican (and particularly INLA) struggle.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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Educated Disciplined
“Whilst Ireland or any part of her is occupied by a foreign body then the only attitude of Irish youth should one of organized opposition. Na Fianna Eireann. Educated, disciplined, revolutionary youth movement.”
Small board on a tricolour in Central Drive, Creggan, Derry.
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Stop Extradition
Graffiti in Westland Street, Derry. Compare this scene – in 1988 – with the same view from 1973.
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The Bog
On the left of this image is the Óglaıgh na hÉıreann mural (seen previously in Guess Who). On the right, on the back of the traffic sign, is “The Bog” and “IRA”. Lecky Road, Derry
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Victory To The IRA
Republican graffiti in Ferguson’s Street, Derry.
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Sınn Féın
The Sınn Féın lettering writ large in Creggan Heights, Derry (with the island of Ireland as a background, though this cannot be seen in the image above). The image below gives a much better sense of what the mural looked like under ordinary lighting.
See also All-Ireland Army, which was at the far end of this block of houses, at the junction with Linsfort Drive,
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Assemble Sunday 28 June Creggan Shops
Board with 9 Derry Brigade volunteers on the rear of Free Derry Corner.
Top: Jim Gallagher, Jimmy Carr, Colm Keenan, John Starrs, ?John McDaid?
Bottom: Eugene McGillan, Gerry Donaghey, John Brady, Junior McDaid
On the rear of Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry. (Visual History)
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Victory To The IRA 1916-87
The brightly-coloured couple in the Coke ad are a stark contrast to the graffiti scrawled below.
Lecky Road, Derry
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End Of The Rossville Murals
The decline of Rossville flats and the murals below them. For images from earlier years, see Eire Nua | Resistance | Murdered By Paratroopers.
Rossville St, Derry. “Victory to the hunger strikers” can be seen on the city walls behind the flats.
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