“Disband RUC” still visible in 2007 in Park Avenue, Derry.
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Disband RUC
London-/Derry
Those Who Tend This Republican Plot
“This stone was presented by the Republican Movement, Derry, on the 22nd October 1999 in recognition of those who tend this Republican plot and republican graves in this cemetery.” “Buıoch [= buíochas?] ó Ghluaıseacht na Poblachta.”
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The Supreme Sacrifice
These are close-ups of the IRA memorial in Derry’s City Cemetery (“Erected Easter 1975”, with the roll of honour extended around the base and then onto additional stones, and a plaque added in 1991 on the 75th anniversary of the second hunger strike and seen first in 1994). “Arna tógáıl An Cháısc 1975, ag Brıogáıd Dhoıre, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann ın ómós agus ı gcuımhne ár gcomrádaıthe a rınne a ardíobaırt go saortar ár dtír dhúchaıs.”
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Vol Mickey Devine
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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