Irish peasants board a ship for North America to escape the Great Hunger.
Oakman Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02067
The Famine Ship
Area Affiliation
Disband The RUC
“Disband the RUC”, “RUC Out” and “Up the IRA” graffiti in Beechmount Pass, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02066
Forced Upon Us
Forced Upon Us is a play about the history of the RUC, paralleling the foundation of the state in 1922 to the situation in the 1990s. It was put on at Theatre On The Rock (St Thomas’s school on the Whiterock Road) by DubbelJoint and JustUs, written by Brenda Murphy and Christine Poland, and directed by Pam Brighton (IrishPlayography).
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02063
Constance Markievicz House
The Sinn Féin offices in Turf Lodge are named “Constance Markievicz House” after the artist, suffragette, republican revolutionary, first woman elected to the British parliament, anti-Treaty fighter, and hunger striker.
Monagh Crescent, Belfast
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02059 M02058
The Death Of Innocence
The subject for the fifth mural by The Bogside Artists is Annette McGavigan, the first child to be killed by British forces in the Troubles, in 1971. The mural (see M01421) would be launched in September.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02053 M02057
Battle Of Bogside
The Battle of the Bogside took place in August 1996. The board above (on the rear of Free Derry Corner) commemorates its 30th anniversary. Rossville flats are shown on the left of the image. Lecky Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02055
SS RUC
“SS RUC” and “RUC bigots”.
unknown street, (Foylehill/Kildrum?), Derry
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02054
Derry Supports The Garvaghy Road Residents
Day 371 of the “siege” of the residents of Garvaghy Road, Portadown. The siege began when the newly-formed Parades Commission decided to ban the Orange march in 1998 and 2,000 police and soldiers enforced the ruling by barricading the road off. Rossville Street, Derry, with Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber in the background.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02052
Equality Now
The hands on the clock are pointing at 1999 (up) and 1969 (down). “1981” is on the left. Whiterock Road, Belfast. By Féile Artists.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M01431
Same Story, Same Bigotry
Londoner Stephen Lawrence was murdered by stabbing in 1993 and, although arrests were made, no charges were brought. A 1998 public inquiry found that the Metropolitan Police Service was “institutionally racist”. In 2012, two of the original suspects were found guilty of the murder (WP). Catholic Robert Hamill was beaten to death by loyalists in Portadown in 1997 while police in an RUC land-rover looked on (WP). The second image is of a fist smashing a swastika: “Stand firm – break the bigots [sic] back” on top of a Drumcree stand-off mural (which will become visible again in later years). Artana Street, Belfast
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M02087 M02088
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