“If you think that you can beat us we’d like to tell that you are wrong cause we’re the fighters and we are strong we are the 1st Batt. of the Cuman Na gCaılını girls!”
Frederick Street/Abbey Park, Derry
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Copyright © 1978 Peter Moloney
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“NF” “UDA” “UVF” “FTP” – graffiti in Hawkin Street, the Fountain, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 1978 Peter Moloney
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Lecky Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1976 Peter Moloney
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An Easter lily and a Tricolour. Below is a line drawing of a British soldier, “Resist oppression” has replaced “Resist British bully boys“. Homer Sykes has an image from the bottom of (the old) Stanley’s Walk.
Stanley’s Walk, Derry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
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“In god our trust” 1688-1690. An early (1916?) painting by Bobby Jackson and perhaps the only rendition of this scene in a mural – it was a popular postcard (included below).
There is an image of the mural in Homer Sykes’s collection.
Clarence Place, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
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1688-1690 King William/King Billy/ crossing the Boyne in the left-hand panel, Siege of Derry in the right.
Spencer Street, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
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Graffiti and crude drawings on the cemetery wall: a volunteer, “(P)IRA”, flags, “Freedom 75”
See previously Easter 1916-1972
Iniscarn Crescent, Derry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
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Republican graffiti in Westland Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
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“NICRA 1974”. “Their epitaph is in the continuing struggle for democracy.” “This monument was unveiled by Mrs. B. Bond of Derry CRA on the 26th January 1974 to the memory of Patrick J. Doherty (aged 31 years), Gerard V. Donaghey (17), John F. Duddy (17), Hugh P. Gilmour (17), Michael G. Kelly (17), Michael M. McDaid (20), Kevin G. McElhinney (17), Bernard McGuigan (41), James G. McKinney (27), William N. Nash (19), James J. Wray (22), John P. Young (17), and to John Johnston (59) who died later as a result of injuries received that day, who were murdered by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday 30th January 1972.” RTÉ video of the unveiling.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
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“IRA Provos” and exuberant kids next to a wall that would later be a prime site for murals, from 1984 onward.
Westland Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
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