Graffiti below the Theodore Roosevelt mural in Wapping Lane, Fountain, Londonderry: “This is Londonderry! Not Derry. No Surrender. Here to stay. UDA.”
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This Is Londonderry
Area Affiliation
Sean Gaynor
“In memory of IRA Volunteer Sean Gaynor who was murdered in his home at 236 Springfield Road by members of the RIC on the 26th September 1920. Erected by the greater Clonard ex-prisoners association.” Gaynor was one of three victims of an RIC murder gang that night (See ROM’s account.)
Colinview Street, Belfast
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Freedom Grows
This is a 20′ x 20′ tarp of an 8′ x 8′ painting done by Mo Chara, shipped over from New York and placed on the side of the Falls library, Belfast. It honours the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers with a verse from a Bobby Sands poem and a border of celtic knotwork, the crests of the four provinces, and other revolutionary and civil rights heroes, include Gandhi, MLK, Gaughan & Stagg, Leonard Peltier/the AIM, Nelson Mandela, Maıréad Farrell, and Nora Connolly.
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Orange Bastards
“UVF UFF Orange bastards”, “PSNI scum”, and other republican graffiti, somewhere on the Springfield Road, Belfast.
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Jimbo And Hugo
Jimbo Irvine (age 42) and Hugo Brannigan (62) were killed in the Morning Star (men’s hostel) fire on 12 February 2002.
Springfield Road, Belfast
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Silence = Complicity
Three images of IRPWA graffiti outside the Royal Hospital on the Falls Road, Belfast: “End the blanket torture of republican POWs – Portlaoise * Maghaberry * England”, “Support the POWs protest Sat Aug 10th 2pm Whiterock Road POW mural”, and “Protest 4 POW status. If you care – you’ll be there “Silence = Complicity” IRPWA.”
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1981 Roll Of Honour
The names of the ten deceased 1918 hunger strikers, and the lengths of their fasts and paramilitary affiliation (IRA or INLA), are recorded in tricoloured lettering on a board in Westland Street, Derry. (Just cut off above is an (R)IRA–Celtic board – see below X05516.)
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger For Justice
This vintage graffiti in Bombay Street, west Belfast, dates back to the 1981 hunger strike.
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UTRA
“Fuck the hoods” and “Up the [I]RA”. Republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Free The POWs
A vintage ‘green ribbon’ from the campaign (from the mid- to late-1990s) to release republican POWs, still high up on a Falls Road, Belfast, wall. Just out of shot to the left: The Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.
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