The plaque in the rop corner (shown in the final image) reads: “This mural was designed & painted by the creative talents of Derry republicans. … It was vandalised by the destructive talents of the RUC & British Army”. The mural showed six raised arms, carrying (from left to right) a paintbrush, a spanner, coloured pencils, an armalite, a book, and a placard reading “Tıocfaıd[h] ár lá” and a full version of Bobby Sands’s quote is on the side wall: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his or her own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small. No one is too old or too young to do something.” A number of paint bombs have been thrown at the mural and graffiti added, describing Sands as “slimmer of the year, ha ha” and saying “Fuck the IRA”.
Westland Street, Derry.
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Portraits of IRA Derry Brigade members Danny Doherty, Willie Fleming, and Ciaran Fleming (all three from the Top Of The Hill in Derry’s Waterside) above a painted tricolour. Doherty and W. Fleming died in an SAS ambush on the grounds of Gransha hospital (WP). Ciaran was drowned attempting to escape the SAS after a bombing attack gone wrong (WP).
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry.
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Graffiti in Darling Street, Enniskillen: “IRA rules OK” and “Brits out”.
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This is not Derry or Belfast but the Bobby Sands’ Sinn Féin Centre in Enniskillen, county Fermanagh. To the left is a lark in barbed wire with the words “Towards liberty”.
Darling Street, Enniskillen.
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Republican graffiti in Glenfada Park, concerning Derry INLA hunger-striker Patsy O’Hara.
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Graffiti on Eastway in Derry: “13 murdered by Brits on Bloodey Sunday”.
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“Brit thugs out” along with “Join na Fianna Eireann”, “Vote Sinn Féin”, and “Poli[tical] statu[s] now.” Eastway, Derry.
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Here is another image in connection with the refusal of the SDLP to support an Irish Independence Party motion to change the name of the city to Derry: “It’s Derry not Londonderry” painted on the back of Free Derry Corner.
Rossville Street, Derry.
See previously: Stoop Down Low Party | Do You Live in Londonderry? | Derry Not Londonderry | Vote SDLP For A Better Londonderry
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On the left, two Irish tricolours hang from a celtic cross in pink and yellow; on the right, an armed IRA volunteer stands guard.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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