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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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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Volunteers carrying an armalite and an RPG launcher in Ballycolman estate, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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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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Five panels in a row in Innisfree Gardens, Strabane: (1) the shield of the four provinces, (2) a phoenix with “Out of the ashes rose the provisionals” (3) Ireland unfree shall never be at peace (seen in 1989), (4) “Honour Ireland’s dead” with a Celtic cross and Easter lily, (5) “Armed struggle” and “Resistance 1916-1989” and three armed volunteers.
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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 showing a damaged version of Mo Chara’s Oppose Censorship opposite St Thomas’s school on the Whiterock Road, Belfast
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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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The words “Irish republican army” become the barrel of an assault rifle, with “IRA” as the magazine. Previously in the shape of a rifle: Tıocfaıdh Ár lá
Springhill Park, Strabane
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