An armed volunteer against the backdrop of an undivided island of Ireland. Linsfort Drive, Derry. See also Sinn Féin, at the other end of this row of houses on Creggan Heights (but is dated 1987).
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A pair of crouched volunteers with weapons aimed below stylised block writing. Pearse’s “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (and a dog) take centre stage. Properly, with fadas, “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”. Central Drive, Derry.
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There’s lot going on in this image of Kells Walk, Derry. On the left-hand wall there’s “Maggie [Thatcher] lured [Northern Ireland secretary Douglas] Hurd to be a turd” on top of an old “Smash H Block” graffito and next to what appears to be a (whitewashed) appeal for confidential tips about terrorist activity (see previously Incomplete Confidence). On the right we have both “Basques OK” and “E.T.A. OK”, and finally “IRA got [UUP M.P. Robert] Bradford Ha Ha”.
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“We the people fully support the hunger strikers on whatever action they take “themselves”.” With Irish Tricolours and “IRA”, “Provos”, and “INLA”.
For the gate to the left, see Remember The Hunger Strikers.
Blucher Street, Derry
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A prisoner on the blanket stands in front of a brown “H”. On the right hand side, a fist clutches a strand of barbed wire. There are also hunger strikers’ names on the gable wall to the left. Fahan Street, Derry. For the mural on the background-left wall, see IRA (P).
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“There is 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 till the end.” From The Rhythm Of Time by “Vol. Bobby Sands.”
Blucher Street, Derry.
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Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are included alongside the ten 1981 hunger strikers in this painted door in Blucher Steet, Derry, which also features a Christian cross and the island of Ireland.
For the mural to the right, see Whatever Action They Themselves Take.
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A line from Padraig Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa: “The fools, the the fools, they [have] left us our fenian dead. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
Fahan Street, Derry
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“Patsy O’Hara, Derry, Political Prisoner, Murdered by the crown”.
Westland Street, Derry
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“If your [you’re] feeling young and active, there’s lots of action around. Come and join the … … Cuman[n] na gCailini [gCailíní], and help overthrown the crown.”
Fahan Street, Derry
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