London-/Derry

Smash Fortress Europe

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Smash fortress Europe – no one is illegal.” Two-year-old Alan (or Aylan) Kurdi and his brother Galib both died during an attempted crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos. Alan’s body was pulled from the water and placed on the shore, where it was photographed lying face-down. The image stunned and shocked people around the world.

“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones, who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fast[en]ed round your neck and you were drowned in the Depths of the Sea. RIP Aylan”

The flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine flies above Free Derry Corner (Visual History). For the board at the back of the wall, see End British Internment.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney (dated August 30th, but Kurdi did not die until September 2nd)
M12831 [M12832] M12833
M12829 [M12830]

Queer Icons

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Free Derry Corner (Visual History) is transformed for Foyle Gay Pride 2015, (August 22nd-30th (programme at issuu)) with paste-ups of four “queer icons”. The four are (l-r) Stormé DeLarverie (WP), Mark Ashton (WP), Sylvia Rivera (WP), and Marsha P Johnson (WP). Ashton grew up in Portadown before moving to London; the other three are from the USA.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12820 M12821

Supporting Republican POWs

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Three flyers on Free Derry Corner (Visual History) in the Bogside: “End the brutality in Maghaberry”, “End the brutality of republican prisoners”, and “End forced isolation”.

“Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association [web]. No change from H-Block to MagHaberry. Supporting republican POWs.”

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12814 M12815 M12816 M12817

#JFTC2

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted in 2012 of the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll (BBC) and sentenced to 18- and 25-year minimums, respectively. The case is under review (Guardian) and a campaign for their release – using the hashtag “#JFTC2” – is under way (Fb).

Nailor’s Row, Derry

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12755 M12765 M12766 M12767

Internment Bonfire – Bogside 2015

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This is the internment (or “assumption”) bonfire (and mini-bonfire) in the Bogside decked with a range of flags — UVF/YCV, UDA, Orange Order, the Paras, Israel, Ulster Banner, Union Flag – and an “RUC” land-rover.

Last year (2014) it was in the Meenan Square waste-ground but this year it is at the city walls/Nailor’s Row.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12770 M12769 [M12768] [M12764] M12763 M12762 M12761 [M12760] [M12759] M12758 [M12757] M12756 [M12754]

Mothers & Sisters

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

May 8th:

March 28th:

The figure in the centre of the mural above is Peggy O’Hara, mother of INLA hunger striker Patsy O’Hara, who remained active in socialist and republican circles and stood in the assembly elections in 2007 as an independent. She died in 2015 and was given a paramilitary funeral, including a volley of shots fired over the coffin (BBC | Irish Times | An Phoblacht). 

The female figure above Mickey Devine (in the bottom right) is his sister Margaret, from whose house his coffin processed after his death in 1981. (See the plaque in Breaking The Chains.) The girl on the left is pointing towards another mural, a dove of peace.

The standing figure, and the plaque, are retained from the previous mural.

Part of The People’s Gallery by the Bogside Artists.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12753 M12593 [M12527] M11704 [M11705] [M11706]

Lest We Forget

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them.” The fence at the back of the Belvoir Somme Association’s Victoria Cross memorial garden on along the Newtownards (at the old Newcastle Street) has been replaced with a wall and the poppy wreath on the left (above) has been joined by a mural in memory of the Somme dead and the Victoria Crosses awarded to the 36th Division “For Valour”.

For the board detailing the VCs, see Victoria Crosses Of The 36th (Ulster) Division.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12048 M12045 M12046 M12047 M12044
M06870b [M06870c]

McGerrigan – Hughes

Extramural Activity1 Comment

“1973-2013” Jake McGerrigan and Tony Hughes of the OIRA were both shot and killed by British forces in the Windmill Hill area of Armagh in a 48-hour period spanning April 7th and 9th, 1973. (Lost Lives #791 incorrectly gives March 7th for McGerrigan.) The board shown above was mounted in Navan Street for the 40th anniversary of their deaths, in 2013. The larger portraits on either side are of McGerrigan and Hughes; between them are (left) Peadar McElvanna, Roddy Carroll, Gerard Mallon, Martin Corrigan, (middle) Peter Corrigan, (right) Tony McClelland, Seamus Grew, Sean McIlvanna [McIlvenna], Dessie Grew.

There is an individual plaque to Hughes at the spot where he was shot, at the bottom of the second image below a board listing the same names (seen previously in 2012). “Thug sıad a raıbh acú [sic] ar son saoırse na hEırınn [sic].” “From death springs life and from the graves of patriots springs a great nation. [from Pearse’s oration at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral].” There is stone to both McGerrigan and Hughes in the same alley (see McGerrigan – Hughes); there is also a stone to McGerrigan in Windmill Avenue.

Navan Street/Ogle Street, and Emania Terrace, Armagh

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
[M12727] M12728 [M12729] [M12730] [M12731] [M12732] [M12733] [M12734] [M12735] [M12736] [M12737] [M12738] [M12739] [M12740]
M12741