28 February, 1985, 9 RUC officers were killed in an IRA mortar attack on a Newry station (WP). Their deaths are celebrated in the graffiti above from Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, which reports the deaths as though a score from the (then) Bass Irish Cup.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Derry volunteers who died between 1970 and 1982 are commemorated in this Derry mural. Their names are listed on scrolls on either side of a phoenix. Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Joseph Coyle, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagen, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Bernard Coyle, Dennis Heaney, Patrick Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell
Bligh’s Gardens, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Darkly humorous mural in Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, parodying the ‘Discover Ireland’ tourism advertisements: “Discover Ireland: sectarian RUC, loyalist UDR, the H Blocks, plastic bullets, murdering UDA, British thugs, Armagh hell-hole, special courts … but I bet you haven’t seen the half of it.”
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Two shamrocks join the Tricolour and Sunburst flags on either side of a Fıan wearing sunglasses and beret. Bligh’s Gardens, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Graffiti in City Cemetery, Derry, including “Victory to the Provos”, “IRA (P)”, “UTP”, “FTH” and an unknown one: “RUTS” — get in touch if you know what it means.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Two image of the walls between entry-way gates in Rathlin Drive, Derry, showing an IRA (“Oglaıgh na hEıreann”) volunteer with machine gun and (on the other) an armalite and a rifle as part of the “Weapons of resistance”.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Guerilla Days In Ireland — red and pink background to volunteers with machine gun and RPG. Based on a poster by a Short Strand artist, circa 1983.
Rathlin Drive, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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1985 version of the graffiti shown in Brit Thugs Out.
Eastway, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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1985 version of Fianna Éireann and Derry Not Londonderry (with “Vote Republican – Mitchel McLaughlin” sticker).
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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This is a 1985 image of a 1981 mural featured previously. The side-wall to the left had not been painted in 1981 — see There Is An Inner Thing In Every Man.
Blucher Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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