For the 30th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike. “Assemble Mickey Devine’s house Rathkeele Way. Main speaker Raymond McCartney.” On the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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Eamonn McCann ran for People Before Profit (web) in Foyle in the Assembly elections of 2011 (unsuccessfully). He also stood for election in 2007 and 2004 and was one of the Raytheon 9.
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“Civilian, husband and father” Patsy Gillespie worked as a cook at a British Army base in Londonderry. On October 24th, 1990, he was abducted from his Shantallow home and forced to drive a van loaded with 1,000 pounds of explosives to the base at Coshquin, where it killed five British Army soldiers and Patsy himself (WP). The stone “presented by the soldiers” is opposite the bar on the Buncrana Road.
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“Change the dynamics of local politics – vote republican! vote for change! Vótáıl Garry Donnelly #1 Derry City Council elections 2011” Donnelly ran as an independent republican; he was unsuccessful in 2011 but elected in 2014 (WP). The board appears below a 32CSM board in Westland St, Derry.
See previously: Free The Derry Four (one | two)
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The Patsy O’Hara (IRSP/INLA) mural (dating back to 2006) in Bishop Street is paint-bombed. It would be quickly repaired. The image of the info board is from 2015.
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Sinn Féin electoral ads from Derry and Omagh ahead of the 2011 Assembly elections:
First, a paint-bombed hoarding at the top of Abercorn Road, Derry.
Second, the words of Bobby Sands are invoked in Gobnascale (Strabane Old Rd) – May 5th is also the date of Sands’s death in 1981.
Third, “Ceannasaíocht ar fud na hÉıreann” from West Tyrone Sinn Féin in James Street, Omagh.
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Real IRA graffiti and mural in Creggan, Derry.
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Support from the Bogside, Derry for Ballymurphy, Belfast, in its campaign for justice and a full account of what happened on August 9th-11th, 1971.
Lecky Rd/Durrow Pk, Bogside, Derry
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Two memorial plaques are added to Cromore Drive in Creggan, not far from the 2nd battalion memorial garden: Joe Walker was shot by the British Army in 1973 (Derry Daily); Paddy Deery and Eddie McSheffrey were killed while transporting a bomb in 1987 (Derry Journal).
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The Irish tricolour flies over Free Derry Corner in early 2011. In the background are The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette.
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