Free Derry Corner is painted pink for the first time, for “Foyle Pride”.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
London-/Derry
Guernica
Picasso painted Guernica to protest the Nazi bombing of the Basque capital of Gernika (at the request of Franco’s forces) on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in hundreds of deaths. Its reproduction in Derry in 2007 was to protest the Iraq war; it is entitled Iraqnica (Derry Journal).
Guernica was also painted on the International Wall in Belfast.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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Women At Work/Catalonia 300
These two boards are on the fence outside the Pilot’s Row Centre in Rossville Street. The first is a Bogside & Brandywell Women’s Group compilation of women in various occupations (plus Bernadette Devlin breaking up pavement); the second shows support for Catalonia: “300 years of occupation, 300 years of resistance”.
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UDA Quis Separabit
UDA and UFF nail-ups in Hawkin Street, Londonderry. Previously seen in 2006.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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And More Recent Conflicts
On the Fountain-side wall of the Old Gaol: “Dedicated to the memory of all those who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and more recent conflicts.”
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The Battle Of The Somme 1916
Soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) Division go over the top at the battle of the Somme – the original photograph can be seen at the BBC. In faded or newly-sketched letters on the right, “At the going down of the sun/And in the morning/We will remember them.”
The UDA mural on the left of the youth club is to Sgt Lindsay Mooney.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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Londonderry History
From left to right: the apprentice boys crying “No surrender!”; the breaking of the boom; the Guild Hall; Walker’s statue; and Roaring Meg, a cannon in the Double Bastion. Dopey Dick, the orca, is on the wall of the building to the right (see the news report in the Digital Film Archive).
These are paintings on boards, replacing the five wall-paintings seen in 2005.
Outside the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain.
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Loyalism Not For Sale
The Fountain area of Londonderry is decked out for Eleventh Night, when the bonfire (including Irish Tricolours) will be set alight.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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City Of Industry
A Union Flag and Ulster Banner fly from a crane in Pump Street, in Londonderry city centre.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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The Brave Thirteen
Residents of the upper Fountain decorate their houses with the names of the apprentice boys, with an arch over the gap in the inner “peace” line. Seen previously in 2002 and 2006.
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