A first clenched in resistance. “RUC thugs keeps [out]”, “Provos rule”.
Abercorn Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00089
Political Status Now
Area Affiliation
Day 61
The counter for the 1981 hunger strike reaches 61.
Rossville Street/William Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00093
Free! Belfast
“Hands off Ireland, bitch”, with a line drawing of Margaret Thatcher; “No, not a dog, but a political prisoner” with a prisoner on all fours. Also a harp in green, white, and gold, and a phoenix with Tricolours, and a hand clasping a dagger.
Rosnareen Park, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00095 [M00379]
You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner with the slogan in bold lettering and the fencing removed.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00078
NF
“National Front” and “UVF” and “UDA” graffiti in Hawkin Street/Kennedy Place, Derry/Londonderry, in 1981.
For the same graffiti in 1978 see National Front (M00044).
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00073
Day 55
“Support the hunger strikers”, “Don’t let them die”, with posters of portraits, on “Day 55” of the 1981 hunger strike.
lower Falls Road, west Belfast
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M00083
Victory To The 32 Day Hunger Strikers
The counter for the 1981 hunger strike reaches 32.
William Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00080
The Five Demands
A slightly different list from the one featured yesterday (in Until The Last Prisoner Is Free) “1. No prison uniform; 2. No prison work; 3. Free Association; 4. Education facilities; 5. Full remission”, “Smash H Block”.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00059
RUC Keep Out
“RUC keep out”, “Patsy O’Hara”, “IRA”, “Political status must stay” on flats in Glenfada Park, opposite the Rossville flats in Derry’s Bogside. Here is a guide to the row of murals along the bottom of Rossville flats. A close-up of the left-hand side of the image above is included below.
M00057
Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00057c
Don’t Let Them Die!
The names of seven of the 1981 hunger-strikers – “POWs” Kieran Doherty, Joe McDonnell, Kevin Lynch, Martin Hurson, Tom McIlwee [McElwee], Paddy Quinn, Michael Devine – are placed next to outstretched arms wrapped in barbed wire.
The hands-in-barbed-wire design is by Jack Clafferty of Troops Out.
Beechmount Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00120 M00055 M00119
