An IRA volunteer reclines with rifle at the ready.
Rathlin Drive, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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CNR
In Proud And Loving Memory Of Derry’s Dead Volunteers
Derry volunteers who died between 1970 and 1982 are commemorated in this Derry mural. Their names are listed on scrolls on either side of a phoenix. Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Joseph Coyle, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagen, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Bernard Coyle, Dennis Heaney, Patrick Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell
Bligh’s Gardens, Derry
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Join Na Fıanna Éıreann
Two shamrocks join the Tricolour and Sunburst flags on either side of a Fıan wearing sunglasses and beret. Bligh’s Gardens, Derry
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Victory To The Provos
Graffiti in City Cemetery, Derry, including “Victory to the Provos”, “IRA (P)”, “UTP”, “FTH” and an unknown one: “RUTS” — get in touch if you know what it means.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Guerilla Days In Ireland
Guerilla Days In Ireland — red and pink background to volunteers with machine gun and RPG. Based on a poster by a Short Strand artist, circa 1983.
Rathlin Drive, Derry
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Unity Flats
Four pieces of graffiti from Unity Flats. “1971 No Trials, 1984 Show Trials” (referring to the Supergrass system) along with “IRSP” (Irish Republican Socialist Party) and “FSLN” (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional), a red star and a sickle; “If you want the RUC in Newry, ring 999 and ask for 9” (referring to a February 1985 mortar attack that killed 9 officers); “Kirkpatrick Paid Informer” (referring to the INLA’s Harry Kirkpatrick (WP); and “INLA-Freedom”.
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Vote Fitzsimmons No. 1
“Vote Republican”: In the old Unity flats, a board promoting Sinn Féin and specifically Harry Fitzsimmons, in the 1985 elections for Belfast City Council (ARK). Unity Place, Belfast.
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Vote Sınn Féın
1985 version of the graffiti shown in Brit Thugs Out.
Eastway, Derry
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Join Up Now!
1985 version of Fianna Éireann and Derry Not Londonderry (with “Vote Republican – Mitchel McLaughlin” sticker).
Rossville Street, Derry
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Murdered By The Crown
This is a 1985 image of a 1981 mural featured previously. The side-wall to the left had not been painted in 1981 — see There Is An Inner Thing In Every Man.
Blucher Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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