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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The brightly-coloured couple in the Coke ad are a stark contrast to the graffiti scrawled below.
Lecky Road, Derry
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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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Free Derry Corner (Visual History) in 1987.
Lecky Road, Derry
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This slogan might date to well before this image was taken in 1987
It was still visible in Twinbrook’s Summerhill Road in 2022.
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Writing on the Whiterock Road, Belfast: “The west has the best – vote Sınn Féın – vote Adams X”.
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Or, with h-lenition, Teach Sheosaımh Mhıc Gıollabhuí. The Sınn Féın press centre on the Falls Road, Belfast, is named for anti-Treaty IRA man Joe McKelvey, who was also the founder of the O’Donovan Rossa GAA club in Belfast. The mural features the shields of the four provinces and Sınn Féın in Celtic-style lettering.
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Two images of an almost complete Nuada mural by Mo Chara in Springhill Avenue, Belfast. The only thing that seems to be missing is the (titular) lettering, which would go in the red circle – “This is Nuada, king of the Tuatha Dé Danann.” The mural is based on the illustrations of Jim Fitzpatrick.
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Here is a faded and vandalised version (with “PIRA suck shit”) of 1986’s Stad Maggie Anoıs. Beechmount Avenue.
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“Stop! Strip Searches” along with “Sınn Féın”, “Hoods beware” and “Sasanach Amach” on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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