Portraits of IRA Derry Brigade members Danny Doherty, Willie Fleming, and Ciaran Fleming (all three from the Top Of The Hill in Derry’s Waterside) above a painted tricolour. Doherty and W. Fleming died in an SAS ambush on the grounds of Gransha hospital (WP). Ciaran was drowned attempting to escape the SAS after a bombing attack gone wrong (WP).
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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On the left, two Irish tricolours hang from a celtic cross in pink and yellow; on the right, an armed IRA volunteer stands guard.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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“Derry Brigade. Provisional Irish Republican Army – Óglaıgh Na h-Éıreann” with an armalite and Irish Tricolour. Bishop Street, Derry
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Crossed Irish Tricolours are joined by two harps and a shamrock, two lesser-seen emblems – for other shamrocks, see Patsy O’Hara O.C. and Blessed Are Those Who Hunger For Justice. Ard Foyle, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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A Latin cross, rather than a Cetlic cross, flies two tricolours in honour of the ten deceased hunger strikers: Bobby Sands “M.P.”, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty “T.D.”, Tom McElwee, and Michael Devine. Park Avenue, Derry
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PLO and IRA volunteers share an RPG launcher, symbolizing their “One struggle”. “Painted by the Irish Republican Youth Movement.” Beechmount (a.k.a. RPG) Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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Here is a 1982 image of the 1981 Connolly mural on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast (aka RPG Avenue), showing some vandalism on the right-hand side.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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“PIRA” and “Provos” graffiti on the left, with a Tricolour, and in the distance on the right, on the walls of the old town, “Vote Sinn Féin”.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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Here is a 1982 image of the Break Thatcher’s Back mural in Rockmore Road, Belfast, showing a blanket man with outstretched arms demanding “status now”, framed by a large “H” and surrounded by barbed wire, Tricolours, and the Starry Plough. In 1981, there was a Sean O’Casey quote on the left, rather than a lily and the year of the Easter Rising — 1916. “Free Belfast” in the top left.
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This mural celebrates the IRA (“Óglaigh Na hÉıreann” at the top) from 1919 (the army of the independent Dáıl Éıreann) to the “present” day of 1982. In the centre, a lark flies against a Tricolour, with the word “Saoırse” (“freedom”) beneath.
According to AP/RN of 1982-04-29, the (earlier) paint-bombing visible in the bottom image was the handiwork of “marauding Coldstream Guards”.
Islandbawn Street, west Belfast
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