3 boards outside the IRSP offices on the Falls Road: “Saoırse” (freedom) – represented by a dove (or perhaps a lark) carrying keys through barbed wire – for all republican prisoners. Tony O’Neill, Marty McCartney, Sean Adams, Cathil Fox, Paul Norney, Daniel Rooney, Rory Dougan, Sean Kelly, Pat Sheehan, James Morgan, Fra Hamilton, Bernard Fox, Kevin Cosgrove, Gerry McDonnell
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01204 M01202 M01203
“Wear a green ribbon to free POWs” with another green ribbon cradling an Easter lily. In the top right, a swastika is thrown into a “Brits out” bin.
Lecky Road, Brandywell, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01163
Full version (with Tricolour still unfinished) of INLA/IRSP “We Are Here To Stay” (1989) in Ballycolman, Strabane.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01148
1994 image of an Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann mural in Ballycolman, Strabane, with crossed rifles between Tricolour and Sunburst flags. Seen previously in 1989.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01147
Another 1994 update image of a 1989 Ballycolman/Strabane mural, a roll of honour for the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers next to a celtic cross with Starry Plough and Tricolour on pikes. “Saoirse.”
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01145
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
Republican volunteer with gun lowered in front of a Tricolour.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01108
Mirror-image volunteers fire over a Celtic cross with wreath and republican flags. This mural was perhaps left incomplete, and perhaps because of the ceasefire.
Drumleck Drive, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01075
A silhouetted volunteer with rifle kneels on a tricolour, with Pearse’s “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” in one third.
“Painted by the Falls Republican Youth.”
Beechmount Parade, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01069
“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
Peter Moloney Collection 