Portraits (along with ages and dates of death) of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers against backgrounds of their home areas. Mickey Devine, for example, is shown in front of Free Derry Corner while Martin Hurson is at a football game.
For seven of these panels in 1995, see Seven.
Rockmore Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01466
For the 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, this freestanding “H” was constructed along the Falls Road, Belfast. Across the centre bar are the words (usually attributed to Bobby Sands) “our revenge will be the laughter of our children” and images of IRA (Tricolour) and youth (Sunburst) volunteers firing over a lark encircled in barbed wire.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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A complete version of Bobby Sands’s poem The Rhythm Of Time, along with the names and portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, and Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg, who died on hunger strike in England.
Rockdale Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01460
Shots are fired over a Tricolour-covered coffin, with a poster or plaque of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
For the phoenix below, see The People Arose in ’69.
Clowney Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01454
“1981-2001: The struggle for political status. Republican Sınn Féın”. Photos of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers in the shape of an “H”.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01447
A large “H” on the Whiterock Road, Belfast with pictures of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, and Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan on the crossbar, with Tricolour and Starry Plough flags (and perhaps a 20th anniversary flag).
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01440
A trio of volunteers with Long Kesh in the background fire a funeral volley over photographic portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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A vintage board from 1991, still visible ten years later on Corrody Road, Derry: hunger striker Francis Hughes “died 12th May 1981”.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01419
The ten names (and the faces) remain the same but the volunteers firing a funeral volley are replaced by the image of blanketman Hugh Rooney. Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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The lower part of the long wall in Bishop Street, Derry, in 1988. From left to right: a funeral volley fired over a scroll (blank in the first shot, filled-in in the fifth; Cú Chulaınn dying; portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers; Bobby Sands’s “spirit of freedom” quote (shown in the final image) which concludes “I remain what I am – a political prisoner of war”; a celtic cross; “Free All POWs” (similar image to Racecourse Road); and a lark in barbed wire over a Tricolour.
For the inclusion of Cú Chulaınn in this mural, see the Visual History page.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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