A Sınn Féın centenary (1905-2005) mural is added to the Éıre Nua Flute Band board (seen in 2004). Above them is a Sınn Féın board with Mao’s statement that “If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.” Both the flute band and Sınn Féın have internet addresses.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02996 M02997 [M02998]
From left to right at the Springfield/Whiterock junction: Seamus Costello (INLA/IRSP founder), Gino Gallagher (INLA chief of staff), Che, Patsy O’Hara, Miriam Daly, James Connolly.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02993 [M02991] [M02992]
INLA volunteer Patsy O’Hara was born in Bishop Street, Derry, near the site of this mural and memorial. He went on hunger strike the same day as Raymond McCreesh and outlasted him by nine hours, both dying on May 21st, 1981. “If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! – James Connolly”
Ardfoyle/Bishop St, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02771 [M02772] M02773 [M02774]
2011 [M06565]
“Born 5th June 1868, executed 12th May 1916. Connolly. “Ireland as distinct from her people is nothing to me.” James Connolly, socialist, patriot, republican, lived here [420 Falls Road, Belfast] as labour organizer during the years 1910 to 1916. This plaque was presented by Gerry Fitt MP on behalf of the Republican Labour Party and unveiled by James Connolly’s son Roderic on 5 June 1968.”
The images of the info board are from 2013.
Falls Road, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
M02746 [M06825]
Copyright © 2013 Peter Moloney
M09541 M09542 [M09543]
Here is a collection of six murals from Ballycolman, Strabane, all seen previously in 1989 and showing their age, and with some RIRA graffiti “Who is the real freedomfighters now! Real IRA” and “Strabane RUC station – 2001 RIRA”.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01714 M01708 M01709 M01710 M01712 M01713
” … but not the revolution”. Images of a modern IRA volunteer, hero of the 1916 Rising James Connolly (both painted by Mo Chara), Zapata, and a member of the United Farm Workers (both painted by Rubén Ortiz-Torres from the University of California, San Diego). Also, a phoenix and a Mexican eagle, and the colours of Ireland and Mexico. Dedicated to the San Patricios, an Irish battalion in the Mexican-American war.
Ballymurphy Road, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01647
1994 images of five (of six) adjacent panels in Ballycolman, Strabane. From left to right: We will meet force with force (1989 | 1990), Che Guevara – They may kill the revolutionary but never the revolution (1989 | 1990), Wear an Easter lily (1989 | 1990), James Connolly – Easter/Cáısc 1916 (1989), Óglaıgh na hÉıreann (1989), [out of shot: Stop Strip Searches (1989 | 1990)]. The set of six in 1990.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01142 M01143 M01144
1994 version of the 1990 Spirit Of Freedom mural on Moyola Drive, Derry, with a faded James Connolly quote on the scroll: “There is no power on Earth [or: There is no outside force] capable of enforcing slavery on a people really resolved to be free, [and] valuing freedom more than life.”
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01076
“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
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01067
James Connolly (with “ICA” – Irish Citizen Army – on his collar) serves as an emblem of the 1916 Easter Rising on its 75th anniversary in 1991.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnsscale, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
M00970
Peter Moloney Collection 