Three volunteers stand formally to make a statement: “And finally a message to our enemies: it is not just an army you face but the might of a people sworn and determined to be free.” 1916-1983 A similar sentiment but with three volunteers on manoeuvres.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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“Victory to the INLA”, “Join the INLA”, and “Socialism” (mis-spelled), with the red star of socialism.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
The 1989 image of this Ballycolman Republican Socialist Youth mural was black and white, suggesting that it was not then finished. By 1990, a Tricolour had been painted in the background but the paint had deteriorated in many places.
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Small mural of an easter lily on a Tricolour in Beechmount Avenue, Strabane, with UFF and UVF graffiti.
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1990 image of Provisionals, with most of the adjacent mural visible – Pearse’s proclamation at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa: Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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1990 image of England Get Out Of Ireland!
Townsend Street, Strabane
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Lines from Bobby Sands’s poem Rhythm Of Time, alongside portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers and a lark in barbed wire. “There’s an inner thing in every man/Do you know this thing my friend?/It has withstood the blows of a million years/And will do so to the end.”
Fountain Street, Strabane.
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Volunteers in the Tyrone countryside suffer some tactical paint-bombing.
Fountain Street (Sráıd An Fhuaráın), Strabane.
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“Ballycolman estate” (Strabane) in (directly translated) Irish, on a tricolour, at the entrance to the estate.
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“… but never the revolution”. An early poster is recreated in an IRA mural in Innisfree Gardens, Strabane: a volunteer in fatigues wields an assault rifle. (Seen previously in 1981 in Rockdale St, Belfast and in Derry in 1981.)
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