London-/Derry

Éıre Nua

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INLA and IRA murals on Rossville Street, Derry, including a volunteer waving the Starry Plough, a Celtic cross draped in the Irish tricolour and a Starry Plough, the island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, a phoenix, Pearse & Connolly, Thatcher-headed Britain biting/pulling on Ireland – “Get the Brits out!”, and the RPG as “IRA weapon of resistance”.

For the first part of the wall (out of shot on the left), see Resistance and Murdered By Paratroopers).

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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Bobby Jackson Mural

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King Billy at the Battle Of The Boyne in 1690 and the Relief Of Derry in 1689. This is the “original” mural in its second location (scare-quotes around “original” because the mural was touched up annually).

This (second) location is still in The Fountain (as was the original location), but there is some confusion about the exact location in relation to the original location – they might be very close together. Please get in touch if you can describe this location in relation to the first.

For 1975 images of the mural in its first location, see Bobby Jackson Mural. And for an overall history, see The Jackson Murals.

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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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A Political Prisoner Of War

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M00152 Carrody Rd 1981

Parts of a 1979 Bobby Sands An Phoblacht/Republican News article — The Lark And The Freedom Fighter — are featured in a 1981 mural in Gobnascale, Derry. “I refuse to change to suit the people who oppress, torture and imprison me, and who wish to dehumanize me. I have the spirit of freedom that cannot be quenched by even the most horrendous treatment. Of course I can be murdered, but while I remain alive, I remain what I am, a political prisoner of war.” B. Sands. MP. POW. OC.

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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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RUC Keep Out

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M00057 Rossville St 1981+

“RUC keep out”, “Patsy O’Hara”, “IRA”, “Political status must stay” on flats in Glenfada Park, opposite the Rossville flats in Derry’s Bogside. Here is a guide to the row of murals along the bottom of Rossville flats. A close-up of the left-hand side of the image above is included below.

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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney

M00057 Rossville St 1981 c +

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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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