Small mural of an easter lily on a Tricolour in Beechmount Avenue, Strabane, with UFF and UVF graffiti.
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Easter Lily
Tricolour
Provisionals
1990 image of Provisionals, with most of the adjacent mural visible – Pearse’s proclamation at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa: Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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England Get Out Of Ireland!
1990 image of England Get Out Of Ireland!
Townsend Street, Strabane
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Baıle Cholmáın Eastát
“Ballycolman estate” (Strabane) in (directly translated) Irish, on a tricolour, at the entrance to the estate.
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They May Kill The Revolutionary
“… but never the revolution”. An early poster is recreated in an IRA mural in Innisfree Gardens, Strabane: a volunteer in fatigues wields an assault rifle. (Seen previously in 1981 in Rockdale St, Belfast and in Derry in 1981.)
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Freedom
“Freedom: For freedom you fasted & died/For the five rights you were denied/For the evil we know to blame/For England shrouded in shame/For the deaths of young Irish lives/For the oath of a country that cried/For the murder of a lark in the sky.” This poem seems to be unique in Irish muraling – if you know anything about it, please leave a comment. The sword with wings appears to be the insignia of the SAS, but its presence in this is inexplicable; the harp might be taking a poke at it. Fountain Street, Strabane.
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Forward To Victory
The Communist hammer and sickle appear in this IRSP/INLA mural in Ballycolman, Strabane
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I nDıl Chuımhne
Celtic cross (with harp) ‘in fond memory’ of fallen republican volunteers. The Ulster flag makes a rare appearance alongside the Starry Plough, Tricolour, and Sunburst.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Tıocfaıdh Ár Lá
Three in a row in Mount Sion, Strabane. On the left, a single volunteer fires a funeral shot over a very faded saying of Pearse’s: “Life springs from death and from the graves of patriotic men and women spring living nations.” In the centre, another funeral volley over an INLA Roll Of Honour bearing the names Neil McMonagle, Colm McNutt, Pierce Moore, Patsy O’Hara, Kevin Lynch, Micky Devine, James McPhilemy. On the right, a masked INLA volunteer with Thompson sub-machine gun.
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Freedom’s Son’s
1990 image of the Freedom’s Son’s mural on the Falls Road, west Belfast. The writing – D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA] – has been added where the volunteer’s legs used to be. A small plaque has been added at the top.
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