The names of seven of the 1981 hunger-strikers – “POWs” Kieran Doherty, Joe McDonnell, Kevin Lynch, Martin Hurson, Tom McIlwee [McElwee], Paddy Quinn, Michael Devine – are placed next to outstretched arms wrapped in barbed wire.
The hands-in-barbed-wire design is by Jack Clafferty of Troops Out.
Beechmount Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00120 M00055 M00119
“The right honourable Bobby Sands Esq MP – Murdered by his fellow members of H.M. Govt”, “I have the spirit of freedom that cannot be quenched by even the most horrendous treatment. Of course I can be murdered, but while I remain alive, I remain what I am, a political prisoner of war, and no one can change that.” Barbed wire stretches over an Irish tricolour next to an image of Sands.
Shaws Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00140 M00133 M00054
Two images of the Busy Bee supermarket in Andersonstown in August, 1981.
There are two galleries, at left and in centre. In the lower (later) image, the central gallery has 12 portraits – McDonnell, Doherty, Hurson, Lynch, McElwee (all with crosses, below, indicating death), Devine, Quinn (no days – he stopped his fast on July 31st), McKeown, McGeown, Devlin, McCloskey, Sheehan. The length of Sheehan’s strike is given as 8 days (in the lower image), which would mean that the (lower) image was taken on August 17th, 1981, the day Jackie McMullen joined the strike. The upper image was taken some time after McCloskey joined on August 3rd but before Sheehan joined on the 10th.
“Give them their 5 demands”, fist smashing H, “support the POWs”, “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace”, tricolour, starry plough, “Support the hunger strikers”.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00020 M00021
?Clonard Gardens?, Belfast. “victory to the blanket men”, “we support our hunger strikers”, “informers beware”
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00005
An Easter lily and a Tricolour. Below is a line drawing of a British soldier, “Resist oppression” has replaced “Resist British bully boys“. Homer Sykes has an image from the bottom of (the old) Stanley’s Walk.
Stanley’s Walk, Derry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
M00139
Graffiti and crude drawings on the cemetery wall: a volunteer, “(P)IRA”, flags, “Freedom 75”
See previously Easter 1916-1972
Iniscarn Crescent, Derry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
M00009
Sınn Féın Centre, “Kandy Korner”, “Up the IRA” and a tricolour in the window.
Westland [“Westend”?] Terrace, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M02114 (see also M02113 of the same building in 1972)
Tricolour and pro-IRA graffiti in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Copyright © 1973 Peter Moloney
M00024
On the side of the Bogside Inn on Westland Street, Derry: “Easter 1916”, “1975” (suggesting that the date in the catalogue is wrong), “PIRA Provos”. The lower-level graffiti was painted out in 1981 – see Westland Street, 1981
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Copyright © 1973 Peter Moloney
M00004
Tricolours flanking an Easter lily in West End Terrace, Derry.
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Copyright © 1972 Peter Moloney
M02113 (see also M02114 of the Sınn Féın centre on the same corner two years later)
Peter Moloney Collection 