These 1986 images of Bishop Street, Derry, show various murals falling into disrepair, though the Weapons Of The Armed Struggle panel has been cleaned up. Here is the complete wall in 1982.
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“Kill Taigs NF” (National Front). Graffiti in Hawkin Street, Londonderry. With “UVF”s in the background.
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The Fountain, Londonderry.
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Another (see “Paras 13 Bogside 0“) graffiti celebrating the deaths on Bloody Sunday in Wapping Lane, Derry.
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The ten deceased hunger strikers are named, called “H-Block Martyrs”, and their entry into heaven requested: “St. Peter let these men into heaven, for they have served their time in hell” (for info, see I Refuse To Change) alongside a christian cross.
The lower part of the gate is the last stanza of a Yeats poem, Three Songs To The One Burden: “Some had no thought of vi[c]tory but had gone out to die, that Ireland mind be greater, her heart mount up on high; and yet who knows what[‘]s to come[?]”
This is a repainted and greatly changed version of Remember The Hunger Strikers in Westland Street, Derry.
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A paint-bombed 1986 version of 1985’s Firing Party.
Chamberlain Street, Derry
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Wide shot and various close-ups of the boards (seen in progress in 1985) on what would become the youth centre in The Fountain, London-/Derry.
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UVF warning in the style of a cigarette packet: “Joining the RUC can damage your health”. Also “NF”. Pine Street, Londonderry.
For a similar republican graffito, see IRA Health Warning. For the murals on the far right, see King Billy/UDA.
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James Connolly House in Chamberlain Street, Derry. For an image of the street in better days – the office was opened in 1977 – see this Norte De Irlanda blog post.
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Voting for Sınn Féın is seen as the way to address the social issues named on placards carried by protestors – culture, houses, Brits Out, jobs – in order to bring about a new Ireland.
Beechmount/RPG Avenue, Beechmount, west Belfast
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