“The weaponry has changed …” from the rifles used by James Connolly’s ICA of 1916 to the AK-47 of the Bobby Sands-inspired IRA of 1991, “… but the cause stays the same.” Both weapons are crossed with the pike of Emmet’s 1798 against a Tricolour. Also present are a hat (see History Ireland) and a beret.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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Memorial to Bobby Sands, with phoenix above (painted by Mo Chara Kelly) in Jasmine Way/Juniper Park, Twinbrook, next to Sands’s home. Two volunteers in reflective pose would later be added by local youths.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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Two small portraits on Corrody Road, Derry of deceased hunger strikers Francis Hughes and Bobby Sands.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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The words “Bobby Sands” still visible on a wall somewhere on the Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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This is an entirely repainted and expanded mural listing the West Tyrone Roll Of Honour. The portrait of Bobby Sands that was originally included in Everyone, Republican Or Otherwise is gone, leaving only the quote from Sands (as shown in the second image). In his place on the right is a volunteer in a hat with a tricoloured band; on the left, the firing party of the previous mural is replaced by a volunteer with AK-47. The names in the roll of honour remain the same though they have been rewritten in a greater space.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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A smiling Bobby Sands on the side of the Sınn Féın offices on the Falls Road, (also the west Belfast office of An Phoblacht/Republican News), with his famous statement that “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his [here: “his/her”] own [particular] part to play” [Diary, March 14th, 1981] (and the lark with its “spirit of freedom“).
This version was painted by Mo Chara in 1989, and an image of Sands has been on the wall continuously since then.
Sevastopol Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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A Provisional IRA gunman takes inspiration from Bobby Sands: “There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed.” Ballycolman, Strabane
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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The words of a smiling Bobby Sands in Ballycolman, Strabane: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his or her own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small. No one is too old or too young to do something. – IRA Vol. Bobby Sands MP 1954-1981” [Diary, March 14th, 1981]
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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