London-/Derry

A Poisonous Legacy

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“British Army/RUC impunity – a poisonous legacy. 40+ years of British Army/RUC impunity, 351 dead, 4 prosecutions of soldiers. A police force that didn’t investigate, a prosecution service that didn’t prosecute, a judiciary that didn’t convict, an army that re-admitted convicted murderers, and successive governments that denied the murder of hundreds of [?interned?] civilians.”

The Poisonous Legacies conference was held in Derry’s Guildhall on June 14th and 15th 2013, organised by the Pat Finucane Centre and the Bloody Sunday Trust (pdf report).

This board is on the rear of Free Derry Corner.

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Beware The Risen People

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Here is a selection of graffiti (and crude drawings, of the INLA emblem and a petrol bomb) from the Bogside, Derry: “Brits out now – IRA”, “BRY/RSYM”, “Erin go bragh – INLA/IRSP – beır bua”, “PSNI scum”

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The Way We Were

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Includes Rossville Flats, the walls of Derry, ?new buildings in Meenan Square?, the Free Gaza board that moved from the back of Free Derry Corner, to the railings at the bottom of Westland Street, to the Lecky Road underpass, and Free Derry corner before the houses in Lecky Road were demolished.

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Remember The 14 Men

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After the Saville report (gov.uk) was published in 2010, the PSNI took up its own investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday (January 30th, 1972), which is still on-going (see Bloody Sunday: Appeal For Witnesses). The Derry graffiti shown here calls for justice for the 14 people who died as a result of 1 Para’s attack. The DUP’s Gregory Campbell claims that the prosecution of British Army soldiers would be “disastrous” (BelTel). Victims’ rights groups have described calls for an end to all enquiries as “a betrayal” (BBC).

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Belfast Says “Yes”

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There are local references aplenty in this new piece by Ciaran Gallagher and Kathryn Bannister, including the H&W gantry crane, a child in b&w on a rope swing, the Albert Clock showing “16:90”, Belfast city hall in an uncharacteristically positive mood, the ‘Brawl In The Hall’, and Shergar staying in Europe’s most bombed hotel, the Europa.

Ciaran has a collection of pictures of the piece being constructed and installed in the courtyard of the Dark Horse bar, Belfast city centre.

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Peace Bridge

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In this Caw mural the Peace Bridge is shown spanning the Foyle between (the former) Ebrington barracks and the Guildhall, with a film-strip of images, many depicting naval and military scenes, above and below. Second from left in the upper ribbon, a poster encourages people to “Join the Wrens [and free a man for the fleet]” (the Women’s Royal Naval Service; see the poster at IWM); there are also soldiers playing ping-pong in their barracks, and the ship’s bell of the HMS Londonderry (which served as a training ship during the Falkland War — WP).

Sperrin Park, Caw, Londonderry

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The Derrys

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“In proud memory of our fallen comrades from the Nelson Drive flute band. Glorious on the graves of heroes, kindly upon all those who have suffered for the cause. Thus will shine the dawn. They gave their tomorrow for our today.” The words in italics are from a Winston Churchill radio broadcast on October 21, 1940, entitled Dieu Protège La France. The final, more familiar, phrase is John Maxwell Edmonds’s memorial epitaph. The 10th battalion of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, in the 109th brigade of the 36th (Ulster) Division, was called “The Derrys” (web).

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