Volunteers fire a funeral volley beneath a complete trio of republican flags: the Sunburst, the Tricolour, and the Starry Plough. Shantallow, Derry.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
London-/Derry
Bobby Sands – Che Guevara
Like the “Heroico” image of Che Guevara – see the Visual History page on Jim Fitzpatrick – the smiling Bobby Sands would become the standard one. They differ in that Che is in his uniform (attending a funeral service) while Sands is in civilian clothes, and the attire indicates that Che is a military hero while Sands, who was an IRA volunteer, would become an icon primarily as a hunger-striker. (See the Visual History page on the Sevastopol Street mural of Sands.)
In this mural, which pre-dates the refinement of Sands’s image, the two portraits are combined. Sands is accompanied by flag-bearing Irish volunteers and Che by a Soviet orator (Lenin?) on a tank. perhaps to emphasise the socialist dimension of the republican (and particularly INLA) struggle.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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Educated Disciplined
“Whilst Ireland or any part of her is occupied by a foreign body then the only attitude of Irish youth should one of organized opposition. Na Fianna Eireann. Educated, disciplined, revolutionary youth movement.”
Small board on a tricolour in Central Drive, Creggan, Derry.
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Stop Extradition
Graffiti in Westland Street, Derry. Compare this scene – in 1988 – with the same view from 1973.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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The Bog
On the left of this image is the Óglaıgh na hÉıreann mural (seen previously in Guess Who). On the right, on the back of the traffic sign, is “The Bog” and “IRA”. Lecky Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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Still Under Siege
“Londonderry Westbank loyalists – Still under siege, No Surrender.” A beefed-up successor to the writing from 1985: Londonderry Not Derry.
Kennedy Place, the Fountain, Derry.
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Loyalists Demand Separation Now
Small board with a red hand between barbs of wire, with union jack, Ulster banner, and symbols of UDA and UVF in the corners. “LPOW — Inprisoned for loyalty”. Hawkin Street, London-/Derry
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Victory To The IRA
Republican graffiti in Ferguson’s Street, Derry.
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The Pope Says No
The (Catholic) Pope (John Paul II) waves an Ulster scarf over his head in celebration of (Protestant) William III’s victory at the Boyne in 1690. Hawkin Street, Derry
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Sans Peur
The four fields of an Ulster banner shield bear the emblems (clockwise from top left) of the UFF (a red fist), the UDA (red hand), the UDF (Ulster Defence Force, golden wings with the motto “sans peur”, the French for “fearless”), and the LPA (Loyalist Prisoners Association, a red hand in barbed wire).
“UDF” is the “Ulster Defence Force”, a sub-group of the UDA with additional training in firearms and tactics, formed in 1985. According to Andy Tyrie, it was some of these gunmen who “restored to the UFF’s West Belfast C Company its ferocious reputation.” (Crimes Of Loyalty, p. 125).
Hawkin Street, Londonderry
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