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25 Years Of Resistance

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The main image – of women banging bin lids at the approach of British Army soldiers – is complete and the “25 years: time for peace, time to go” stencil is being added at the bottom. Still to come, the title at the top: “Falls/Clonard – 25 years of resistance”.

The circular logo was designed by Robert Ballagh (Circa 1994, p. 22).

For the completed work, see the Paddy Duffy Collection. The top third of this mural was still visible in 2017.

Dunville Street, west Belfast

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End British Collusion

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A pair of hands with shirt-cuffs of the Union flag and Ulster Banner jointly point a pistol at a republican mother carrying a cross through a graveyard and field of bullets. A line of documents show the forces of the state (B-Specials, UDR, RUC) colluding with loyalist paramilitaries. Oakman Street, Belfast.

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Free 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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Ancient & Christian Ireland

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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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Slán Abhaıle

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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

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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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