The impetus for this 2007 graffiti in Rossville Street is unknown. The Gardaí and PSNI rugby squads joined forces in 2003 (compare Shame on You, St Brigid’s) and the Derry City team goes back to the 19th century. Get in touch if you know the reference. Signed “JC”.
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London-/Derry artist Eamonn O’Doherty‘s 1990 sculpture ‘The Emigrants’ is in Waterloo Place, Derry (until 2010 when it would be moved to the quayside).
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An information plaque is added to the “Breaking the boom” mural by Attitude Artwork in Roulston Avenue, Londonderry. This mural shows the Mountjoy in full sail. She was one of the ships which broke the timber boom across the Foyle to relieve the siege in 1689. This is one of a number of murals commemorating the 1689 siege in the Waterside and Fountain areas of the city. The mural was painted by local community artists Dee Logan, Mark Logan and Marty Edwards.” Seen previously in 2003.
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The hunger strikers memorial in Rossville Street, Derry, gets a new centre-piece: the dove (or lark?) and barbed wire are now mounted on a fist (or at least, curled fingers). See previously 2001 which has close-ups of the side stones, and 2004 which has a shot taken from the same spot.
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2007 version of the Palestinian flag flying in William Street, Derry (see M03344), now with “Vote Sınn Féın” poster beneath featuring Gerry Adams.
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Information boards with photographs from the early Troubles are added along Rossville Street, Derry, for the benefit of tourists, supplementing the People’s Gallery. These three are to Free Derry Corner, Bloody Sunday, and Aggro Corner.
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Inside the Bloody Sunday Museum, 14 crosses, one for each of the victims on Bloody Sunday (January 30th, 1972), including John Johnston, who died on June 16th.
Glenfada Park, Derry
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An “RUC Out” road-sign is modified with “SF [Sınn Féın] out”.
St Columba’s Walk, Derry
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This is the scene at the Lecky Road underpass (going up to Barrack Street) in February 2007: above,”SF/RUC scum”, “Kill all cops”, “Vote Peggy O’Hara“, “Israel scum”, with tricoloured supports and light-pole; below, a series of paste-ups to victims of Bloody Sunday (on its 35th anniversary) and others nominated as part of Bluebell Arts’s “Unsung Heroes” project – Willie McKinney (killed on Bloody Sunday), Kevin McElhinney (killed on Bloody Sunday), “Palestinian youth from Balata refugee camp. Despite being denied a homeland, they dare to dream. Nominated by Bluebell Arts”. Here is a gallery of images from the anniversary march (indymedia) with plenty of anti-SF messages on display.
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