The Ulster Banner (though without a crown over the six-pointed star) is flanked by two Union Flags
Bond’s Place, Waterside, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1982 LC
M00066 M00067
Londonderry
London-/Derry
And The Armalite Made Us Equal
Two images from 1982 of the graffiti in the previous post (from 1981): “God made the Catholics and the Armalite made us equal”.
On the lower wall, next to Rossville flats, are various graffiti: FTQ”, “IRA”, (possibly re-purposed from “FTOIRA”?), “UTP”, “INLA”, “Bobby Sands MP”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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Provisionals For Freedom
“Easter 1916-72” and a large tricolour in Howard Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney (according to the spreadsheet, but perhaps 1972? Compare with M00032)
M00031
Viva Argentina Ole!
The war over the Falkland/Malvinas islands lasted ten weeks from April to June, 1982. Sympathies in the Bogside lay with the Argentinians. “Britan[n]ia rules the waves no more”, “Join Na Fıanna Eıreann now” and one other indecipherable slogan. Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00023
Don’t Let Them Die
“Dont let them die” with an Irish tricolour and “IRA”. On Central Drive, Derry and next to The Conveyor Belt.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00030
The Conveyor Belt
Four scenes from the “conveyor belt” of the British police and judicial system, including (in the bottom left) a prisoner before a single judge in a Diplock court, around an image of Ireland with a union jack in the shape of a soldier with rifle aloft standing over Northern Ireland.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00087
Éıre
The view from Top Of The Hill looking down over the old town and the bogside. The island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, “Smash H-Block”, “Political status now”.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Westland Street, 1981
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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Murdered By The Crown
“Hunger strikers murdered by the crown”, “Out of the ashes arose the Provisionals”, with a primitive phoenix, sunburst flag, and tricolour.
Blucher Street/Lisfannon Park, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00182
Resistance
More panels from Rossville Street, Derry, this time showing volunteers firing over a phoenix, a lark in barbed wire, a volunteer kneeling by a fire and a tricolour on a flagpole, and an Armalite rifle with the words “A weapon of the provisionals”.
For the rest of this wall (out of shot on the right), see Murdered By Paratroopers and Éıre Nua.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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