Images of the vandalised and deteriorating murals (see Release The Prisoners Of War Now) on Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry.
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Release The Prisoners Of War Now
London-/Derry
Rem The Prisoners
Blanket-man in Long Kesh prison. Help is requested with the lower graffiti – “anti-treaty o[…] now”?
Coach Road, Derry
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Open The Gate In 98
“Open the gate in 98 – Free all”.
Coach Road, Derry
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RUC Out
An early appearance of “RUC out”, in Fountain Street, Londonderry. (Previously in Belfast.) With “UDA”, “UVF” and “LVF”.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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We Will Walk Portadown
A reference to the dispute at Drumcree (see Beware and Approved Orange Route): “One faith, one crown, we will walk Portadown. 1690-1998” Hawkin Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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Free All POWs
Mural urging the freedom (saoırse) of republican political prisoners in Foyle Road, Derry. Similar to murals Racecourse Road and Bishop Street.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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YCV – UVF – RHC
Here is a trio of loyalist boards in Dennet Gardens, Londonderry with the insignia of the Young Citizen Volunteers, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Commandos. The design of a garland of flowers containing a regimental insignia dates to the Ulster Volunteers of 1912; the masked volunteers standing to attention do not.
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Seven Signatories
More from Bishop Street, Derry: portraits of the seven signatories of the Proclamation, with the GPO in flames on the left and the four provinces and an easter lily on the right.
On the same wall, to the left: Ten Hunger Strikers.
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Ten Hunger Strikers
The lower part of the long wall in Bishop Street, Derry, in 1988. From left to right: a funeral volley fired over a scroll (blank in the first shot, filled-in in the fifth; Cú Chulaınn dying; portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers; Bobby Sands’s “spirit of freedom” quote (shown in the final image) which concludes “I remain what I am – a political prisoner of war”; a celtic cross; “Free All POWs” (similar image to Racecourse Road); and a lark in barbed wire over a Tricolour.
For the inclusion of Cú Chulaınn in this mural, see the Visual History page.
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Free All Irish POWs
“Saoırse” green ribbon campaign for the release of republican POWs. Sponsored by Sınn Féın Youth.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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