This repainting of a 1986 mural in AMCOMRI Street, Belfast, whitewashes the SF logo from the middle of the Tricolour and much of the graffiti in the surround painted out.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
M00453
Sınn Féın
Tricolour
Vote Sinn Féin Adams
Tricolour and Sunburst flags with a simplified version of the Sınn Féın logo. Above can be seen an old graffiti: “Damn your concessions, England; we demand political status.”
Springhill Avenue, Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
M00460
Rossville Murals
A wide shot of the 14 panels along the bottom of Rossville flats, Derry, in 1986.
- Roll Of Honour
- They May Kill The Revolutionary
(no separate image; below is a close-up from the image above; there’s an image of the mural at CCDL; and here’s a version in Belfast)
- Phoenix-Volley
- Lark
- Resistance
- A Weapon Of The Provisionals
- Murdered By Paratroopers
- INLA
- Celtic Cross
- Ireland
- Eire Nua Phoenix
- Pearse & Connolly
- Get The Brits Out
- Weapon Of Resistance
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M02118
Bishop Street
These 1986 images of Bishop Street, Derry, show various murals falling into disrepair, though the Weapons Of The Armed Struggle panel has been cleaned up. Here is the complete wall in 1982.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00330 M00331 M00329
Three Songs To The One Burden
The ten deceased hunger strikers are named, called “H-Block Martyrs”, and their entry into heaven requested: “St. Peter let these men into heaven, for they have served their time in hell” (for info, see I Refuse To Change) alongside a christian cross.
The lower part of the gate is the last stanza of a Yeats poem, Three Songs To The One Burden: “Some had no thought of vi[c]tory but had gone out to die, that Ireland mind be greater, her heart mount up on high; and yet who knows what[‘]s to come[?]”
This is a repainted and greatly changed version of Remember The Hunger Strikers in Westland Street, Derry.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00386
The Final Salute
A paint-bombed and graffiti’ed 1986 version of 1981’s The Final Salute.
Rockville Street, Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00405
Venceremos
Here is a badly damaged, latter-day version of a mural we first saw in 1981: Venceremos.
Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00419
Sinn Féin
The Sinn Féin symbol of the letters “SF” on the island of Ireland at the centre of a tricolour in AMCOMRI Street, Belfast. (“AMCOMRI” = “American Committee For The Relief Of Ireland, a U.S. charitable organisation founded in the 1920s.)
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00406 M00404
Stad Maggie Anoıs
A hand with tricoloured cuff attempts to stop one with a Union flag from taking the six counties from the rest of the island. The plural imperative would be “stadaıgí”.
The image was used (in the 70s? and 80s?) in the United States for fundraising (MOMA | Fb | Etsy).
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast. See also the same idea in Strabane: England Get Out Of Ireland.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00401
For A New Ireland
Voting for Sınn Féın is seen as the way to address the social issues named on placards carried by protestors – culture, houses, Brits Out, jobs – in order to bring about a new Ireland.
Beechmount/RPG Avenue, Beechmount, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
M00399
