“Disband RUC” still visible in 2007 in Park Avenue, Derry.
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Disband RUC
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Those Who Tend This Republican Plot
“This stone was presented by the Republican Movement, Derry, on the 22nd October 1999 in recognition of those who tend this Republican plot and republican graves in this cemetery.” “Buıoch [= buíochas?] ó Ghluaıseacht na Poblachta.”
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The Supreme Sacrifice
These are close-ups of the IRA memorial in Derry’s City Cemetery (“Erected Easter 1975”, with the roll of honour extended around the base and then onto additional stones, and a plaque added in 1991 on the 75th anniversary of the second hunger strike and seen first in 1994). “Arna tógáıl An Cháısc 1975, ag Brıogáıd Dhoıre, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann ın ómós agus ı gcuımhne ár gcomrádaıthe a rınne a ardíobaırt go saortar ár dtír dhúchaıs.”
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Vol Mickey Devine
McCool-Coyle-Carlin
All five people included on this plaque – Joe Coyle, Tommy Carlin, Tommy McCool and two daughters Bernadette and Carole – were killed by a premature explosion as bombs were being made in the McCool’s house in Dunree Gardens in Creggan. The plaque is on the side of the community centre in Fanad Drive, Derry.
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Eamonn Lafferty
19 year-old Provisional IRA volunteer Eamonn Lafferty was “killed on active service 18th August 1971”, in a gun-battle with British Army forces who were attempting to dismantle barricades in republican “Free Derry”.
Kildrum Gardens, Derry
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Republican Gravestones
These three IRA gravestones are in Derry City Cemetery. The first is to Hugh and Susan Morrison, IRA and Cumann na mBan members in 1922 (findagrave/Derry Journal). Hugh died from a premature bomb explosion during a gun-battle at Skeog/Skeoge (p. 41 of 1916 Derry Rising Revisited). Brothers John and Hugh Gallagher – John was “killed in June [1920] Derry riots” while Hugh was “shot by Free State soldiers at Drumboe Castle [holding centre]” in 1922. Finally, John Starrs, killed in a gun battle with the British Army in William Street, in 1972.
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SF – MI5 Out!
Anti-Sınn Féın graffiti in Blucher Street, Derry.
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Patrick Sheils
A plaque “dedicated to the memory of Patrick Shiels Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann 1878-1957. Erected by the republican movement 11th April 2007 to mark his 50th anniversary. I measc laochra na nGael go raıbh sé” is added to the Operation Motorman mural in Rossville Street, Derry. Paddy Shiels took part in the Easter Rising and was later Derry OC. See BMH testimony #676 by Liam Brady.
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Free Derry Féıle
Mural on the side of the “container” shop in Glenfada Park advertising the “Free Derry” féıle.
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