“Someday, very soon there will be the brightest ever, shining new star in space. It will be the planet earth. For Ireland, shall be finally, free.”
Windmill Terrace, Brandywell, Derry
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Free Derry Corner in red, with two new murals behind it: on the left, The Petrol Bomber, on the right, a 25th anniversary mural of Battle Of The Bogside. Lecky Road, Derry.
From Oona Woods’s Seeing Is Believing (plate 14), the red-and-yellow wall was … “A temporary transformation in 1994 by artist Colin Darke who painted the wall a socialist-related red and yellow to engender dialogue about its origins and current role in the community.”
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Out of the ashes flames arose the Provos. Mural in Strabane Old Road, Derry. There is another Battle of the Bogside 25th anniversary poster on the left.
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A large board on the old Top Of The Hill community centre, Gobnascale, Derry, showing a prancing stallion in front of a (neolithic) dolmen and (mediaeval) round tower (perhaps the missing tower where Long Tower now stands).
There is a thought that “Gobnascale” is Irish for “field of the stallion” (McLaughlin 1999).
Also on the community centre (in 1981): A Political Prisoner Of War.
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“Welcome to Fresh-water-well [Brandywell]”, with a 25th anniversary poster for the Battle of the Bogside with Clive Limpkin’s Petrol Bomber. The floodlights of the stadium can be seen in the background on the right.
Lecky Road, Brandywell, Derry
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Republican graffiti in Bishop Street, Derry.
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Five images of a “Slán Abhaıle” mural, with British soldiers trooping back towards London, being painted on the back of Free Derry Corner, on Lecky Road, Derry. The piece is by Robert Ballagh, taking a famous photograph of British forces in the Falklands marching (“yomping”) towards Port Stanley and placing it in a circle (to suggest a closing eye, perhaps) below tricoloured party balloons. For the original photograph, see the IWM.
The image was also produced in the Short Strand (east Belfast), in Ardoyne, north Belfast, above the Sınn Féın offices/Sıopa Na hEalaíne in west Belfast, in Shantallow (Derry), and in Letterkenny.
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The Petrol Bomber was the first mural painted by the Bogside Artists – Kevin Hasson, Tom Kelly, and William Kelly – as part of what would become The People’s Gallery (Visual History).
It shows 13 year-old Paddy Coyle (Derry Journal) with a Molotov cocktail and wearing a gas mask (used to protect rioters against CS gas).
The Rossville flats are in the background of the mural (though not of Clive Limpkin’s original photo, included below from this gallery of Limpkin’s images of Derry 1969-1972).
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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A fist in flames to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle of the Bogside, and the beginning of the Troubles, 1969 – 1994. See the documentaries Battle Of The Bogside and No Go on youtube, and the WP page.
Painted by Arlene Wege in Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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1994 image of the Doıre – Managua (Nicaragua) mural in Magazine Street, Derry.
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