A black-and-white portrait of Bobby Sands on a gable wall in Fanad Drive, Derry, dating back to 1981.
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Bobby Sands
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All-Ireland Army
An armed volunteer against the backdrop of an undivided island of Ireland. Linsfort Drive, Derry. See also Sinn Féin, at the other end of this row of houses on Creggan Heights (but is dated 1987).
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Oglaıgh na h-Eıreann
A pair of crouched volunteers with weapons aimed below stylised block writing. Pearse’s “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (and a dog) take centre stage. Properly, with fadas, “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”. Central Drive, Derry.
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Many Have Eyes/Who Next
These two murals — one about censorship (“Many have eyes but cannot see?”) and one about the death by platic bullet of Sean Downes (“Sean Downes RIP — Who Next” see this NYTimes article for a description) — are adjacent to one another in Blucher Street, Derry. “Many Have Eyes” is based on a poster from the May 1968 Paris Uprising, “Information Libre” (below).
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Maggie Lured Hurd To Be A Turd
There’s lot going on in this image of Kells Walk, Derry. On the left-hand wall there’s “Maggie [Thatcher] lured [Northern Ireland secretary Douglas] Hurd to be a turd” on top of an old “Smash H Block” graffito and next to what appears to be a (whitewashed) appeal for confidential tips about terrorist activity (see previously Incomplete Confidence). On the right we have both “Basques OK” and “E.T.A. OK”, and finally “IRA got [UUP M.P. Robert] Bradford Ha Ha”.
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Whatever Action They Take Themselves
“We the people fully support the hunger strikers on whatever action they take “themselves”.” With Irish Tricolours and “IRA”, “Provos”, and “INLA”.
For the gate to the left, see Remember The Hunger Strikers.
Blucher Street, Derry
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On The Blanket
A prisoner on the blanket stands in front of a brown “H”. On the right hand side, a fist clutches a strand of barbed wire. There are also hunger strikers’ names on the gable wall to the left. Fahan Street, Derry. For the mural on the background-left wall, see IRA (P).
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There Is An Inner Thing In Every Man
“There is an inner thing in every man. Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, and will do so till the end.” From The Rhythm Of Time by “Vol. Bobby Sands.”
Blucher Street, Derry.
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Remember The Hunger Strikers
Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are included alongside the ten 1981 hunger strikers in this painted door in Blucher Steet, Derry, which also features a Christian cross and the island of Ireland.
For the mural to the right, see Whatever Action They Themselves Take.
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The Fools, The Fools
A line from Padraig Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa: “The fools, the the fools, they [have] left us our fenian dead. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
Fahan Street, Derry
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