Three images from the Fountain of the 70s and 80s, showing (in the close up) the seal of Londonderry (including skeleton) and six-pointed star with the red hand of Ulster. The wide shots also show two Ulster Banners and a Union Flag.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Here are a number of loyalist graffiti from Londonderry, with slogans such as “UVF”, “UDA”, “UFF”, “Taigs out” and “NF” (National Front) with swastika, as well as “Londonderry Not Derry” (in response to the various ‘Derry not Londonderry’ pieces in republican areas (see Derry Not Londonderry, It’s Derry Not Londonderry, Do You Live In Londonderry?, Stoop Down Low Party, and Vote SDLP For A Better Londonderry), and “For God and Ulster MYM” (“MYM” = “? Young Militants”?). The fourth image (which is from London Street) shows a contested wall, sporting both loyalist and republican (“Provos rule Derry/Doire”) phrases. There is also “FZTR” – Fountain Zulu Tartan rules.
London Street, Kennedy Place, Hawkin Street, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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November 1985 saw the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which established an “inter-governmental conference” advisory body on (some) Northern Irish affairs, in which the Irish government participated. It spawned the slogans “Ulster says No” and the localized “Belfast says No”.
City Hall, Belfast
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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The dates of the siege of Derry and the battle of the Boyne with the red hand of Ulster on a six-pointed star and crown, and the Ulster banner and Union flag. Bond’s Place, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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St. Andrew’s Saltire, the Ulster Banner, and the Union Flag, side-by-side in Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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The Canadian and Australian flags join the star and crown of Northern Ireland and the flags of the apprentice boys in Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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The previous street-level graffiti on Westland Street, Derry — for which see 1973’s PIRA Provos — is shown here being repainted with a series of three panels: a tricolour and starry plough, hands in chains, and H-block.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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King Billy at the Battle Of The Boyne in 1690 and the Relief Of Derry in 1689. This is the “original” mural in its second location (scare-quotes around “original” because the mural was touched up annually).
This (second) location is still in The Fountain (as was the original location), but there is some confusion about the exact location in relation to the original location – they might be very close together. Please get in touch if you can describe this location in relation to the first.
For 1975 images of the mural in its first location, see Bobby Jackson Mural. And for an overall history, see The Jackson Murals.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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“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
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Here are two images, from 1981 and 1983, of graffiti in Bond’s Street, Waterside, Londonderry, reading “More H Blocks”, “Let them die”, with the outline of a coffin and the number “9” on it.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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