Hooded IRA volunteer aims an RPG launcher over the letters “IRA” on a semi-circle.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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IRA
Area Affiliation
Your Smile Disfigures Us
“Our day will come” and “A message to our enemies: Go home soldier. Your presence here destroys the air, your smile disfigures us. Go home soldier before we send you home dead. INLA.” Part of Patrick Galvin’s poem “Letter to a British soldier on Irish soil”. Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Che Guevara
A third Che Guevara, this time in black and white, in Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Che Guevara
Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in military beret.
Fountain Street, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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We Are Here To Stay
Hooded INLA volunteer with an assault rifle and a Tricolour.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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We Are Here To Stay
INLA/IRSP mural in Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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We Will Meet Force With Force
IRA mural in Ballycolman, Strabane showing a volunteer with raised fist against Starry Plough, Tricolour, and a rising sun.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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As Much Freedom As She Wants
P[atrick] H[enry] Pearse: “Ireland unarmed will attain just as much freedom as it is convenient for England to give her; Ireland armed will attain just as much freedom as she wants.” Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Repatriation For Irish POW
The words “repatriation for Irish POW” were later added to this mural in Ballycolman, Strabane. But the prisoner in question, perhaps shown in the centre of the flag and in close-up in the second image, is unknown.
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The Supreme Sacrifice
‘In proud memory of our fallen West Tyrone volunteers, 1916-1989. Tıocfaıdh ár lá. Those who have made the supreme sacrifice – their memory will never fade.” Jim McNally, Sean Sharkey, Charles McCafferty, John J. Kelly, Tobias Molloy, Eugene Devlin, Seamus Harvey, Gerald McGlynn, Jim McGinn, Patrick Cannon, Peter McElcar, Charles Breslin, Michael Devine, David Devine, Josie Connolly. With an oddly-shaped arrangement of shamrocks between two rifles and the sunburst and tricolour flags.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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