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Murder In Mind

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A small tribute to the Bloody Sunday dead: portraits of fifteen victims with two verses of a song “Murder In Mind”: “They came to our town, the Paras, with murder in mind//As people marched down from Creggan/Towards the Guildhall for civil rights/It was a cold but sunny day/No one could image what was in front of them that sunny day.//The Paras stood in William Street/Laughing and chatting and raring to go/To murder for king and crown/And for Ted Heath 10 Downing Street”. (Also seen in 2002.)

The memorial pillar dates back to 1974.

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Guernica

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Picasso painted Guernica to protest the Nazi bombing of the Basque capital of Gernika (at the request of Franco’s forces) on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in hundreds of deaths. Its reproduction in Derry in 2007 was to protest the Iraq war; it is entitled Iraqnica (Derry Journal).

Guernica was also painted on the International Wall in Belfast.

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Women At Work/Catalonia 300

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These two boards are on the fence outside the Pilot’s Row Centre in Rossville Street. The first is a Bogside & Brandywell Women’s Group compilation of women in various occupations (plus Bernadette Devlin breaking up pavement); the second shows support for Catalonia: “300 years of occupation, 300 years of resistance”.

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The Battle Of The Somme 1916

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Soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) Division go over the top at the battle of the Somme – the original photograph can be seen at the BBC. In faded or newly-sketched letters on the right, “At the going down of the sun/And in the morning/We will remember them.”

The UDA mural on the left of the youth club is to Sgt Lindsay Mooney.

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Londonderry History

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From left to right: the apprentice boys crying “No surrender!”; the breaking of the boom; the Guild Hall; Walker’s statue; and Roaring Meg, a cannon in the Double Bastion. Dopey Dick, the orca, is on the wall of the building to the right (see the news report in the Digital Film Archive).

These are paintings on boards, replacing the five wall-paintings seen in 2005.

Outside the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain.

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