A skull and cross-bones is given a spray-can hat. “Solvent abuse has consequences: poor concentration, hallucinations, distorted vision, slurred speech, headaches, dizziness, no fun!”
Free Dery Corner, Lecky Road, Derry
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M01773
Graffiti below the Theodore Roosevelt mural in Wapping Lane, Fountain, Londonderry: “This is Londonderry! Not Derry. No Surrender. Here to stay. UDA.”
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M01772
The names of the ten deceased 1918 hunger strikers, and the lengths of their fasts and paramilitary affiliation (IRA or INLA), are recorded in tricoloured lettering on a board in Westland Street, Derry. (Just cut off above is an (R)IRA–Celtic board – see below X05516.)
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This vintage graffiti in Bombay Street, west Belfast, dates back to the 1981 hunger strike.
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“Fuck the hoods” and “Up the [I]RA”. Republican graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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“Doıre” means “oak grove” and the oak leaf is the symbol of Derry city.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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M03949
“Free Palestine – boycott Israeli goods.” A eye in Palestinian colours sheds a tear containing a map of the occupied territories. (somewhere on)
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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A dove/lark in celtic style and the oak-leaf representing the city of Derry comprise the emblem of Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972. See previously: Bloody Sunday ’72 | Domhnach Na Fola
Rossville Street, Derry
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“Leabhaır an teanga Ghaeılge lıom” [“Speak Irish with me”]. Catholic (and Presbyterian) education was prohibited by the penal laws (WP) and particularly the Education Act of 1695 (WP) – this is probably what’s on the notice on the left-hand tree. Schooling by Catholics (in Irish) nonetheless took place, in covert houses and outhouses, as well as in fields and hedge-rows. The Act was repealed in 1782, provided the teacher took an oath of allegiance to the Crown.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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M01805
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Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic is painted as a mural: James Connolly lies injured on a stretcher, being tended to by Elizabeth O’Farrell (? WP), while Pearse, Clarke, and Plunkett (and Ceannt?) stand by.
For Paget’s original, see the Visual History page.
Berwick Avenue/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast
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M01785 [M08260]
