Side by side in Brandywell Road, Derry: the Easter lily (with “IRA” on one of the flags) and “disband the RUC”.
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Easter 1916
Tricolour
Survivor
This is a 2004 image of the North’s longest-lasting mural. It was painted in 1981 and survives to the present day. It was painted before the custom took hold of putting flags on pikes in order to include the 1798 rebellion. Anne St/Glenanne, Derry. Seen previously in 1982.
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Ten Hunger Strikers
2004 image of the names (left) and portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers, seen previously in 2001.
Bishop Street, Derry
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Thıg Leo An Réabhlóıdeach A Mharú
Three INLA volunteers are commemorated on this Rossville Street, Derry, plaque. 18 year-old Colm McNutt was shot by an undercover SAS officer during a botched hijacking, tipped off by best friend and informer Raymond Gilmour (Irish News). A drunken Phelan was shot by an off-duty NYPD officer in New York, nine years after leaving the country (LA Times | NY Times). McShane was run over and crushed by a British APC during riots against the treatment of Catholics during the Drumcree standoff (RN). “Thıg leo an réabhlóıdeach a mharú, ach ní thıg leo an réabhlóıd a mharú choíche.” [They can kill the revolutionary but they can never kill the revolution.]
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Éıre Nua
“Éıre Nua” was the Provisional Sınn Féın and (after the 1986 split) Republican Sınn Féın (RSF) plan (pdf | also a social and economic plan pdf) for a federal Ireland, with a semi-independent Ulster parliament.
The board above combines various iconic images: Divis tower, Cave Hill, Free Derry Corner, the female volunteer in beret, the revolutionary in front of the Tricolour on a pike.
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Our Revenge Will Be The Laughter Of Our Children
Here are two 2003 images of the 2001 installation for the 20th anniversary of the hunger strike at the La Salle bend in the Falls Road, Belfast.
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This crude hunger strike mural, with hand-written names of the ten deceased men and a line-drawing of a lark, is in Lecky Road, Derry.
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They May Kill The Revolutionary
“They may kill the revolutionary but not the revolution.” The imagery of the open-throated volunteers goes back to a 1981 poster. The 11 portraits are perhaps those of the people listed on the roll of honour at Constance Markievicz House, a short distance away: Martin Skillen, Gerard Fennell, Sean McDermott, Paul Best, Pearse Jordan, Terence O’Neill, John Dempsey, Martin Forsythe, Tom Magill, Sean Savage. Kevin McCracken.
Norglen Parade, Belfast
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Ireland Unfree
“Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (from Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa), with the Tricolour and Sunburst (flag of the junior IRA, the Fianna) on pikes.
Brompton Park, north Belfast
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Ógra Shınn Féın
The emblem of Ógra Shınn Féın (Sınn Féın Youth) is the Molotov cocktail with Easter lily as a fuse. Dove Gardens, Derry.
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