“Up the revolution!” A volunteer with an armalite raised above his head in Bishop Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00112
An Réabhlóid Abú
CNR
Your Dead
British Army soldiers walk down a road between trees.
Corrody Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00094
Don’t Let Them Die
Portraits of five hunger strikers (the other five are to the right of frame – they are visible in the distance in M00091), “Don’t let them die” and a tricolour and sunburst.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00092
Political Status Now
A tunnel has been bored through the H in the apex of the gable above, to reveal the starry night beyond. Strabane Old Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00091
Sınn Féın Advice Centre
Sınn Féın advice centre on Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry, with a tricolour flying outside and “RUC bastards” and “Provos” graffitied on the walls.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00090
And The Armalite Made Us Equal
Two images from 1982 of the graffiti in the previous post (from 1981): “God made the Catholics and the Armalite made us equal”.
On the lower wall, next to Rossville flats, are various graffiti: FTQ”, “IRA”, (possibly re-purposed from “FTOIRA”?), “UTP”, “INLA”, “Bobby Sands MP”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00037 M00039
Provisionals For Freedom
“Easter 1916-72” and a large tricolour in Howard Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney (according to the spreadsheet, but perhaps 1972? Compare with M00032)
M00031
Viva Argentina Ole!
The war over the Falkland/Malvinas islands lasted ten weeks from April to June, 1982. Sympathies in the Bogside lay with the Argentinians. “Britan[n]ia rules the waves no more”, “Join Na Fıanna Eıreann now” and one other indecipherable slogan. Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00023
The Conveyor Belt
Four scenes from the “conveyor belt” of the British police and judicial system, including (in the bottom left) a prisoner before a single judge in a Diplock court, around an image of Ireland with a union jack in the shape of a soldier with rifle aloft standing over Northern Ireland.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00087
Our Fetters Rent In Twain
A phoenix rises from a pair of disembodied hands tearing apart an “H” made of brick, illustrating the lines “and then I prayed I yet might see/our fetters rent in twain/and Ireland long a province be/a nation once again”. Also with the lark in barbed wire, four provinces, and names of six hunger strikers: Bobby Sands MP, Francis Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson. Falls Road in Andersonstown, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00223
Peter Moloney Collection 