IRA volunteer Dennis (or Denis, according to Sutton, and thence lots of others) Heaney was kill on June 10th, 1978 by an undercover British Army member whilst attempting to hijack a car, near the spot of this plaque to his memory in Harvey Street, Derry.
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Each year the residents of the upper Fountain put the names of the 13 apprentice boys (and images related to the siege of Derry) on the backs and the garden fences of their homes.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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Volunteer Charles English was a member of the IRA’s Derry Brigade (1st battalion). He died on August 6th, 1985, at age 21, when a grenade launcher exploded. His brother, Gary, had been killed four years earlier when an Army land rover hit and then reversed over him (Derry Journal). Images from the funeral are collected in this video.
Abbey Street, Derry
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This pair of murals, on the New Lodge Road, Belfast, contrasts life for young people in the “1900s” to life in “2000”. Instead of working (and dying – in the headlines from the Irish News) in mills, they work in fast-food restaurants and drive black taxis (and suffer unemployment, suicide, and anorexia – again, in the newspaper), and instead of playing in the streets and wrapping themselves in blankets, they sit on walls and drink.
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“Dedicated to the memory of INLA volunteer Matt McLarnon, Nora McCabe and Peter Doherty who were murdered in this area by British state forces during the 1981 H-Block hunger strike. A Mhuıre banríon na nGael guí ar a son”. The area in question is Clonard/Falls. Doherty and McCabe were hit by plastic bullets; McLarnon was shot by a sniper on Divis tower. Erected by a Sınn Féın group (Lower Falls/Clonard Committee) rather than INLA.
old Linden Street, west Belfast
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IRA volunteer (and marksman in the Irish Army) John Starrs was killed in a gun battle with the British Army in William Street, near his plaque in Chamberlain Street, Derry
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“Grieve not nor speak of us with tears but laugh and talk of us as though we were beside you”. Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann, Belfast brigade, 2nd battalion, B company volunteers Kevin Delaney, Patrick Campbell, Michael Clarke, Anne Parker, and Michael Sloan are shown on patrol in Ballymurphy Parade, the street just to the left of this mural. Campbell was 16 when killed by friendly fire; the oldest at time of death was Delaney, at 26.
Also named on the plaque are “republican activists” Esther Valelly, Theresa Campbell, and Maggie Campbell.
Glenalina Road, Ballymurphy, west Belfast
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A Celtic cross, the dying Cú Chulaınn, pikes, and the Tricolour and Starry Plough are used to adorn a roll of honour for deceased members of IRA Belfast Brigade, 2nd battalion, B company.
Springfield Road, west Belfast
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“Our laughter will be the joy of our victory + [the] joy of the people; our revenge will be the liberation of all.” This is perhaps the only appearance of this quote from Bobby Sands’s hunger strike diary, from Thursday March 12th. In the background are the towers of Long Kesh; in the foreground is Sands’s funeral procession.
Gardenmore Road, Dunmurry/Belfast
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Derry INLA volunteer Mickey Devine was the tenth and last of the 1981 hunger strikers to die, on August 20th. The board shown in this image is in Rathkeele Way, on the gable wall of the family home of his sister Margaret.
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