Bobby Sands was IRA commanding officer in Long Kesh/Maze and lead 1981 hunger-striker, dying on May 5th, 1981.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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God Bless Bobby Sands
London-/Derry
Bring Them Home
“Free the Colombia 3”. Niall Connolly (SF), Jim Monaghan (IRA), and Martin McCauley (IRA) were arrested in August, 2001 travelling on false passports in Colombia. They were also charged with training FARC rebels to make bombs. Initially, they were found innocent of this charge in the December 2002 trial, but then found guilty of it on appeal by the prosecution (in December 2004), at which time they fled back to Ireland (WP). The board is on top of Rem The Prisoners.
Southway, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01558
O’Hara – McCreesh
Hunger strikers Patsy O’Hara and Raymond McCreesh died on the same day – May 21st, 1981. There are thus two portraits placed next to the memorial in Rossville Street, Derry, on this day each year.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Vol. Kevin Lynch
INLA volunteer Kevin Lynch was from Park, County Derry, near Dungiven, where this board commemorates his death in the 1981 hunger strike. Chapel Road.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01778 [M01923]
Take It Down
“Cut the crap – take it down now”. “It” being the Tricolour as flown (originally) by pro-Treaty forces and (at the time of the graffiti, 2001) by Sinn Féin after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Here are the Dubliners singing the song.
Creggan Hill, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01601
Political Status In Maghaberry
Graffiti in support of republican prisoners in Maghaberry. Central Drive, Derry. The Irish Times profiled the prison in 2017.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01600
RIRA
Real IRA graffiti in Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01597
We Support The Wyanes From Ardoyne
Holy Cross Catholic girls’ primary school, situated in loyalist Ardoyne, Belfast, was picketed by locals in late June, 2001 and throughout the autumn term, on the grounds that they and their homes were being attacked in the area. Images of young children (wee’uns or wains) being ushered through a police cordon while subjected to abuse made headlines around the world and prompted the two graffiti in this post,
St Columb’s Wells and Bligh’s Lane, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Political Status Now!
An early IRPWA [Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association] flag, a Tricolour with a gunman and fists in manacles, demanding “political status now!” in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01593
The Saturday Matinee
This mural is popularly known as ‘Saturday Matinee’ because young people in Derry would spend Saturdays (and many other days) rioting against the British Army, which had been deployed in August 1969 after the Battle Of The Bogside. The official title is The Rioter and it is the eighth mural from the Bogside Artists in The People’s Gallery. The original photograph on which the mural is based is by Clive Limpkin.
Replaces Nothing Has Changed.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 2001/2007 Peter Moloney
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