Three volunteers fire a funeral volley over a coffin with Tricolour, beret, and gloves.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01448
Remember What They Died For
Tricolour
Hunger Strikers
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
Their Own Particular Role
A version of the Bobby Sands quote: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has their own particular role.”
Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01411
Tommy Crossan For Political Status
“Support the prisoner candidate” – former PIRA volunteer and CIRA leader Tommy Crossan stood from Maghaberry Prison as a RSF candidate for West Belfast in 2001 (Éıre Nua) and urged voters to “spoil your vote” – see the posters on the wall; also Bennie et al p. 59).
In 2014 he would be killed after his expulsion from CIRA – see RIP Vol Tommy Crossan.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01501
Four Flags
The flags of Ireland, the Basque Country, and an unknown flag – blue, white, and blue vertical stripes with a sun/flower design on a dark blue square or diamond. (Please get in touch if you recognize it.) Beechmount Pass, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02069
They May Kill The Revolutionary
“They may kill the revolutionary, but never the revolution.” Volunteer with an assault rifle in front of a Tricolour.
Rockmore Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
M02064
Seven Signatories
More from Bishop Street, Derry: portraits of the seven signatories of the Proclamation, with the GPO in flames on the left and the four provinces and an easter lily on the right.
On the same wall, to the left: Ten Hunger Strikers.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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Ten Hunger Strikers
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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Free All Irish POWs
“Saoırse” green ribbon campaign for the release of republican POWs. Sponsored by Sınn Féın Youth.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
M01388
SFY
The flags of the four provinces with the Starry Plough and Tricolour.
Sınn Féın Youth.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
M01379
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