Seven of the murals along the Bogside’s Lecky Road and Rossville Street – that would in 2007 be made ‘The People’s Gallery’ – are visible from the old Derry city walls. The Gallery has its own Visual History page.
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Anti-immigrant graffiti in Roulston Avenue, Waterside, Londonderry.
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The British Ulster Alliance is a flute band with a ‘British nationalist’ ideology that occasionally travelled to Northern Ireland to attend marches, such as one in the White City (north of Belfast) in 2006 (Mirror). There was a Rathcoole mural to the band in 2001 (see J0823).
The Union Flag is a composite of the St George’s Cross (England), St Andrew’s Saltire (Scotland), and the Order of St Patrick/St Patrick’s Saltire (Ireland). No Welsh flag is included in the Union Flag. The Northern Irish flag (Ulster Banner) is based on the flag of Ulster.
Fountain Street, Londonderry
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The UDA are known as “the wombles” because the fur-trimmed parkas they worn in the early days made them look like the television characters (here is season 1, episode 1).
Sperrin Park, the Caw, Londonderry
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Eddie The Head (in the guise of The Trooper) continues to storm over the Bogside, almost a decade after first being painted. Eddie has his own Visual History page.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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The UVF mural and the boards (on the fence) in Sperrin Park, the Caw, Londonderry are decked out in a variety of flags for the summer season.
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The Museum Of Free Derry (and Bloody Sunday Centre) originally opened in 2006. In February 2017 it underwent a major renovation (BBC).
Glenfada Park, Bogside, Derry
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Three overviews of the Fountain in Londonderry. First from outside, beyond the Bishop Street “peace” line (for an earlier look, see 2002; for a close-up of a plaque, see X02718), and second and third from inside, from Kennedy Place and Wapping Lane.
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A dove extends an olive branch in the Sperrin Park, the Caw, Londonderry, garden of reflection.
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INLA volunteer Patsy O’Hara was born in Bishop Street, Derry, near the site of this mural and memorial. He went on hunger strike the same day as Raymond McCreesh and outlasted him by nine hours, both dying on May 21st, 1981. “If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! – James Connolly”
Ardfoyle/Bishop St, Derry
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