“50 aniversario Cuban Revolution 1959-2009. Comhgaırdeas a mhuıntır Chúba! [Congratulations, people of Cuba!] Caoga blıaın den réabhlóıd. [Fifty years of the revolution.] ‘We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle’ – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara Lynch. Ógra Shınn Féın.” International board in Meetinghouse Street, Strabane, with portraits of Fidel Castro and (Jim Fitzpatrick’s) Che.
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National Hunger Strike Commemoration. Remember the hunger strikers. Tír Eoghaın 2009. Blackflag and torchlight presentation, Anne Street, Dungannon. Main commemoration Galbally community centre.” Placed temporarily on top of Sınn Féın – The Winning Way. The same board was hung in Chapel Road, Dungiven.
Bridge Street, Strabane
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Internment bonfire on the Foyle walkway including Union Flags, Ulster Banner, UDU and UVF flags, and the central panel from a QEII mural in Bond’s Place (in the loyalist Waterside).
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Bogside internment bonfire on Lecky Road, Derry, with Union Flags, Ulster Banners, Rangers flag, top and scarf, England top, OO flag, UFF flag, a cut-out PSNI landrover, and portrait of the CoI “Earl Bishop” Frederick Hervey which was stolen from outside St Columb’s (BBC-NI). “Free Colin Duffy”, “Rebels 3, Brits 0”.
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Sınn Féın leader Gerry Adams said of the IRA in 1995 “They haven’t gone away, you know” (youtube). The phrase is here used against him, with the British Army in place of the IRA: “Those who administer British rule are traitors – they haven’t gone away you know – Afghanistan, Iraq, Ireland.” 32CSM (32 County Sovereignty Movement) board at the top of Westland Row, Derry.
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These are two of about 25 panels about Creggan with a focus on heritage and youth, on Eastway, Derry.
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Claire McGill, Pat Doherty, and Barry McElduff of West Tyrone Sınn Féın. Electoral board above the Sınn Féın office in James Street, Omagh.
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“Be safe not sorry. Don’t burn, baby burn.” Young people are encouraged to have a disco inferno rather than a Bogside internment bonfire. Fire safety mural on the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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Three suspected IRA car bombs exploded on Main Street, Claudy, on July 31st, 1972, killing nine people and injuring 30. This memorial on Church Street was designed by Elizabeth McLoughlin and unveiled in 2000. The plaque also acknowledges “the suffering and loss of many others in the Claudy region over the years.”
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Ulster Unionist Party East Belfast Advice Centre, in 2009 the offices of Sir Reg Empey, MLA. The shield/emblem in the top is very rare (and probably a mistake): provincial (rather than six-county) Ulster with a crown on top.
Albertbridge Road, Belfast
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Peter Moloney Collection 