Graffiti just off Racecourse Road, Derry: “UTP” [Up the Provos] “SRY” [Shantallow? Republican Youth], “Join the IRA”.
Drumleck Drive.
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Join The IRA
London-/Derry
RUC Out
Large-print graffiti on a fence in Drumleck Drive, Derry.
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Valuing Freedom More Than Life
1994 version of the 1990 Spirit Of Freedom mural on Moyola Drive, Derry, with a faded James Connolly quote on the scroll: “There is no power on Earth [or: There is no outside force] capable of enforcing slavery on a people really resolved to be free, [and] valuing freedom more than life.”
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Graveside Volley
Mirror-image volunteers fire over a Celtic cross with wreath and republican flags. This mural was perhaps left incomplete, and perhaps because of the ceasefire.
Drumleck Drive, Derry
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Send The Rich Away
“My [republican prisoner] son will pull rulers down from their thrones, inspire the poor, feed the hungry, and send the rich away – Luke 1”. An army helicopter flying in a starry plough sky shines down its light on the three wise men of the European Economic Community (EEC), Catholic church, and Sky broadcasting.
Lecky Road, Derry, on the back of Free Derry Corner (Visual History)
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The Day Innocence Died
Portraits of the 14 Bloody Sunday victims on small boards in Westland Street, Derry. From Bloody Sunday Memorial, their names were Patrick J. Doherty (aged 31 years), Gerard V. Donaghey (17), John F. Duddy (17), Hugh P. Gilmour (17), Michael G. Kelly (17), Michael M. McDaid (20), Kevin G. McElhinney (17), Bernard McGuigan (41), James G. McKinney (27), William N. Nash (19), James J. Wray (22), John P. Young (17), and John Johnston (59).
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Our Gasyard Site
A kids mural with a message of economic justice: while the kids on the right play with the animals and go swimming, the adults work at “Fair Pay Factory” and enter through a door marked “Isteach”.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Photographs And Memories
Five small murals pretending to be photographs in an album. A child holds a board, two men in coats stand talking, girls’ faces, two boys play chasies around the Bloody Sunday Memorial, a show of hands.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Old And New
Lecky Road in the black-and-white of previous years, with children playing handball against the “Free Derry” wall and swinging from a lamp-pole, side-by-side with a colourful Lecky Road of the present, where they play soccer and sit at computers.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Scenes From Yesteryear
Here are two murals from Alexandra Place (off Foyle Road), Derry, one of a train running through the countryside and the other of a street of terraced houses. According to McLaughlin 1999, the person on the bicycle is SDLP councillor and former Derry mayor Mary Bradley; the mural was paint-bombed.
Both were painted by Bogside Artist Tom Kelly, as was a mural in similar “photographic” style (to the second image) in Gobnascale (see D00501).
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