“May their souls [the heroes of the Easter Rising, 1916, as represented by the GPO and Easter lily] be among the heroes of the Gaels.”
Clanrye Avenue, Newry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The original version of this mural (in 1994) had the words “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann” rather than IRA and lacked the Starry Plough – the sunburst and hooded gunman (with Uzi?) remain the same.
Carnagat Road, Newry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The fight for political status by the ten 1981 hunger-strikers in the H-Blocks (plus Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg from the 70s) is linked to the status of republican prisoners in Maghaberry in 2001. A volunteer in funereal clothing, including an Easter lily on his beret, is at the centre. Camlough Road/Carnagat Road, Newry, stronghold of PIRA S. Down, Armagh Brigade.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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“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
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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
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Real IRA graffiti in Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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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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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
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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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“Féıle na Samhna – ceılıúradh na nGael” (Samhain festival – celebration of the Irish” at An Gaeláras Doıre (now Cultúrlann Uí Chanáın).
Rear of Free Derry corner, Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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