Two similar graffiti from Central Drive, Creggan, Derry: “Ulster says No but … the man from Del Monte says Yes/the queen says Yes.” Also, “The last supper Newry”?
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Say Yes
Area Affiliation
IRA (P)
Six of the hunger-strikers are named and their paramilitary associations given: B. Sands (PIRA), R. McCreesh (PIRA), J. McDonnell (PIRA), F. Hughes (PIRA), P. O’Hara (INLA), M. Hurson (PIRA).
Blucher Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00332
RUC Pigs
An unhappy pig wearing a police cap in Hawkin Street, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00323
Paras 13 Bogside 0
Loyalist graffiti in Hawkin Street, Londonderry, celebrating the deaths on Bloody Sunday. (For the names of the dead, see the 1974 Bloody Sunday Memorial.) (For a similar republican ‘football score’ concerning RUC deaths, see Bass Irish Cup.)
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00322
INLA OK
Lots of “INLA”s in Glenfada Park, Derry, with a starry plough in the background.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
M02267
Roll Of Honour
This is a black-and-white, English-language, version of a ‘roll of honour’, with names in Celtic script, mural that would quickly be redone (see I gCuimhne Agus In Onóir). The graffiti underneath read Maggie Lured Hurd To Be A Turd. There is also graffiti on the low wall: “All the queens horses and [all the queens men] couldn’t catch the IRA in [London again]”. Kells Walk/Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Murders Explosions
Here is a 1985 version of the ‘confidential telephone’ board on Spencer Road, Derry, previously seen (in 1982) in Incomplete Confidence (M00088).
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
M00362
Roll Of Honour
A roll of honour in Albert Street, Belfast, commemorating volunteers of the IRA’s D company, 2nd battalion, who died from 1971 to 1979: Hughes, Quigley, McAreevy, Maguire, Donaghy, McKinney, O’Rawe, Marley, Campbell, Skillen, Kelly, Carson
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
M00292
The Fountain
Here are a dozen images of the (in-progress) murals on the building at the junction of The Fountain/Wapping Lane/Kennedy Street (which is currently the Cathedral Youth Club) in London-/Derry. They include the arms of Londonderry, a Union Flag modified with six-pointed star, the red hand of Ulster, and the crest of the UDA.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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No Surrender 1690
Graffiti on the side of Carrybridge, Fermanagh.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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