2007 image of the Rathkeele Way mural to INLA hunger striker Mickey Devine, seen previously in 2001 | 2005.
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London-/Derry
McCool-Coyle-Carlin
All five people included on this plaque – Joe Coyle, Tommy Carlin, Tommy McCool and two daughters Bernadette and Carole – were killed by a premature explosion as bombs were being made in the McCool’s house in Dunree Gardens in Creggan. The plaque is on the side of the community centre in Fanad Drive, Derry.
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Ballymoney 3rd Battalion
UDA/UFF 3rd battalion (North Antrim brigade).
Carnany Drive, Ballymoney
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Londonderry UVF
UVF board on the back of the shops in the (loyalist) Irish Street area of Londonderry.
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No Surrender
Flags outside a house in Bann Drive, Londonderry, celebrating “The Brave Thirteen” apprentice boys who began the siege of Derry, the ship Mountjoy that ended the siege, and the city of Londonderry (“Vita, veritas, victoria”).
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Attack Of The Ulster Division
Soldiers from the 36th Division go over the top at the Somme, as depicted in JP Beadle’s Attack Of The Ulster Division (belfastsomme.com).
Strule Gardens, Londonderry
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Eamonn Lafferty
19 year-old Provisional IRA volunteer Eamonn Lafferty was “killed on active service 18th August 1971”, in a gun-battle with British Army forces who were attempting to dismantle barricades in republican “Free Derry”.
Kildrum Gardens, Derry
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Republican Gravestones
These three IRA gravestones are in Derry City Cemetery. The first is to Hugh and Susan Morrison, IRA and Cumann na mBan members in 1922 (findagrave/Derry Journal). Hugh died from a premature bomb explosion during a gun-battle at Skeog/Skeoge (p. 41 of 1916 Derry Rising Revisited). Brothers John and Hugh Gallagher – John was “killed in June [1920] Derry riots” while Hugh was “shot by Free State soldiers at Drumboe Castle [holding centre]” in 1922. Finally, John Starrs, killed in a gun battle with the British Army in William Street, in 1972.
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SF – MI5 Out!
Anti-Sınn Féın graffiti in Blucher Street, Derry.
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The People’s Army
The title of the post comes from the previous location of this Ulster Volunteers/UVF board. The image above is from Seymour Gardens, Londonderry, but previously the board was on the main road (Sperrin Park) in the Caw with a black background and title-board above, and side-fence of insignia. From the period of the Ulster Volunteers, the board features the Carson, the Clyde Valley, the Covenant, and the UDU (Ulster Defence Union) manifesto of 1893.
Previously in this location: McFadzean.
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