Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in military beret.
Fountain Street, Strabane.
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Che Guevara
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Che Guevara
Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, wearing a red star on his beret, as in the famous Korda photograph/Jim Fitzpatrick print (Visual History).
Between Wear An Easter Lily and We Will Meet Force With Force in Ballycolman estate, Strabane
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Bobby Sands – Che Guevara
Like the “Heroico” image of Che Guevara – see the Visual History page on Jim Fitzpatrick – the smiling Bobby Sands would become the standard one. They differ in that Che is in his uniform (attending a funeral service) while Sands is in civilian clothes, and the attire indicates that Che is a military hero while Sands, who was an IRA volunteer, would become an icon primarily as a hunger-striker. (See the Visual History page on the Sevastopol Street mural of Sands.)
In this mural, which pre-dates the refinement of Sands’s image, the two portraits are combined. Sands is accompanied by flag-bearing Irish volunteers and Che by a Soviet orator (Lenin?) on a tank. perhaps to emphasise the socialist dimension of the republican (and particularly INLA) struggle.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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We Must Grow Tough
“We must grow tough, but without ever losing our tenderness.” Three female activists, one with a rifle, proclaim “Resistance” on the Falls Road, Belfast “painted by Sınn Féın Youth”. The phrase is attributed to Che Guevara. Rolston (1991 p. 94) claims this mural was done for International Women’s Day 1982 (March 6th). An in-progress image can be seen in the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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