Republican graffiti on the roof of the shops at Lecky Road and Meenan Square, Derry.
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RIRA Rule
London-/Derry
Bobby Sands
A portrait of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands with a slightly grimacing smile.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Solidarity With Palestine
The Palestinian flag flies above Free Derry Corner and is pained on a board, both in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Domhnach Na Fola
The emblem of Bloody Sunday (in Irish “Domhnach Na Fola”) is a Celtic-style dove (perhaps the NICRA dove) with an oak leaf (representing the city). The earliest presentation in the Collection is five years earlier than this image, from the 25th anniversary.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Gasyward Wall Féıle
Baord on the back of Free Derry Corner for the ninth annual Gasyard Wall Féıle (the first was in 1993).
Lecky Road, Derry
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Murder In Mind
A small tribute to the Bloody Sunday dead on the 30th anniversary of the event: portraits of fifteen victims with two verses of a song “Murder In Mind”: “They came to our town, the Paras, with murder in mind//As people marched down from Creggan/Towards the Guildhall for civil rights/It was a cold but sunny day/No one could image what was in front of them that sunny day.//The Paras stood in William Street/Laughing and chatting and raring to go/To murder for king and crown/And for Ted Heath 10 Downing Street”.
For the memorial pillar itself, see these images from 1974, its inaugural year.
Rossville Street, Derry
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A Colossus Of The Struggle
Two recent deaths are commemorated with stones placed next to Free Derry Corner in Lecky Road.
Barney McFadden was a Derry IRA and Sınn Féın activist and councillor, interned during the 70s and noted in later years for opposing criminal actions by republicans (Irish Times). He was described by Martin McGuinness at the funeral as “a colossus of the struggle” (An Phoblacht). In this video, he shares his memories of the Derry Gasyard.
John “Caker” Casey (1946-2000) painted the slogan “You are now entering Free Derry” in block lettering on the gable wall of 33 Lecky Road in August 1969, for the visit of Home Secretary Jim Callaghan. (The original graffiti version was done by Liam Hillen in January.)
For a history of Free Derry Corner, see its Visual History page.
Lecky Road, Bogsde, Derry
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PSNI Out
“PSNI out”, “CRF” (Catholic Reaction Force) “RIRA” and “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) graffiti in (the old) Dove Gardens, Derry. A Celtic player (Henrik Larsson?) completes the scene.
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Bloody Sunday
This Bloody Sunday info board in Rossville Street, Derry, is directed at an international audience, being “dedicated to all those throughout the world who have struggled, suffered imprisonment and lost their lives in the pursuit of liberty, justice and civil rights” and focusing as much on the Widgery report (“branded a whitewash by human rights groups throughout the world”) and continued demands for justice as on the events of the day.
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Nothing Has Changed!
David Trimble (or John Hume?), George Mitchell? (wearing the British crown; J1506 suggests the SDLP’s Mark Durkan), and Ian Paisley are the puppets of the RUC (rebranded as the PSNI).
Fahan Street, Derry
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