These two boards are on the fence outside the Pilot’s Row Centre in Rossville Street. The first is a Bogside & Brandywell Women’s Group compilation of women in various occupations (plus Bernadette Devlin breaking up pavement); the second shows support for Catalonia: “300 years of occupation, 300 years of resistance”.
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The People’s Gallery is a series of murals by the Bogside Artists along Rossville Street and Lecky Road in Derry. Although the sign says there are 12 murals, at the time there were in fact only 11 (as this page at the official web site says), though a twelfth would be added in 2008. For images of all 12 murals, see the Gallery’s Visual History Page.
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For a time in 2005 (and beyond?) the Civil Rights mural by the Bogside Artists was modified to support the Rossport 5 (see Power To The People). By the time of this image in 2007, and addition of the info board, the central “Jobs, not creed” placard had been restored in black.
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Two “nail-ups” on an electricity pole in Westland Street, Derry.
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“Derry Anti-War Coalition – Defend the Raytheon 9”. On August 9th, 2006, nine activists (including Eamonn McCann) broke into the Raytheon offices in Derry and destroyed computers and equipment. The trial would begin in May 2008.
See previously: Killed By Weapons Systems | One World One Struggle
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“Years from now they will ask you where you were when your comrades were dying on hungerstrike. Shall you say you were with us or shall you say that you were conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths[?]” INLA (sign the light-pole as well as the flags and red star in the mural) volunteer Patsy O’Hara, from Derry, joined the hunger strike on the same day as Raymond McCreesh (March 22nd) and died, 61 days later, later in the same day (May 21st, 11:29 p.m.) as him (2:11 a.m.).
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Three pieces of republican graffiti along the wall along Lecky Road leading to the overpass: “Real IRA”, “PSNI/RUC scum out now”, “BRY” [Bogside Republican Youth], “RSF” [Republican Sınn Féın], “Up the RSF”, “SF sell outs”.
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Pro-Hamas graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Three hunger strikers (all three from 1981) – Kevin Lynch, Tom McElwee, Mickey Devine – on the tops of three ‘houses’ in the New Lodge. For a complete list of strikers and houses, see New Lodge Flats.
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“Not as Catholics or Protestants, not as nationalists or unionists, but as Belfast workers standing together.” For the 100th anniversary of the strike by dockers and carters in Belfast, this large board was painted by Fra Maher and Rısteard Ó Murchú. It was launched on August 11th without the title across the top (youtube). See X00166 and X00167 for the finished product.
Leaders Boyd and Larkin are portrayed in the middle. The second panel shows speakers (including Larkin) on a platform (O’Hare); the third shows an RIC guard of blackleg workers – about 70% of the force mutinied and the fifth panel shows dismissed RIC constable William Barrett being carried through Belfast; the sixth shows the Cameron Highlanders being stoned by picketers (History Ireland). Margaret Lennon and Charles McMullan, two Catholic victims of British soldiers, shot during protests, are portrayed in the bottom right.
Northumberland Street, west Belfast
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