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Armed Resistance

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Five in a row in Springhill Park, Strabane (with a badly damaged sixth out of shot to the left). Fıanna and óglaıgh in front of Sunburst and Tricolour flags; a kneeling volunteer with RPG launched “Armed resistance 1916-1987”; a lark ferrying a rifle; a raised fist; “unity is strength”.

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Shantallow Youth Demand A Real Future

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Instead of Sky News and the Sun newspaper (panel 1) and an environment of “unemployment, emigration, boredom, YTP [youth training programmes]” (panel 2), Shantallow youth want a future of “Saoırse, dignity, peace, democracy, justice, freedom” (panel 3). The figures are in the colours of the Irish Tricolour and a sunburst forms a backdrop. Moyola Drive, Derry

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Loch gCál

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The eight IRA volunteers killed by the SAS in 1987 as they attacked the RUC station in Loughgall are named in Irish: Eoın Ó Ceallaıgh, Pádraıg Ó Ceallaıgh, Gearoıd Ó Ceallacháın, Seamus Laıghneach, Deaglan Mac Aırt, Seamus Ó Donnaılle, Pádraıg Mac Cearnaıgh, Antaıne Ó Garmaıle.

Eugene Kelly, Paddy Kelly, Gerard O’Callaghan, Jim Lynagh, Declan Arthurs, Seamus Donnelly, Pádraig McKearney, Tony Gormley

New Lodge flats, Belfast

See also: the large mural in Springhill, west Belfast.

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Armed Struggle

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Five panels in a row in Innisfree Gardens, Strabane: (1) the shield of the four provinces, (2) a phoenix with “Out of the ashes rose the provisionals” (3) Ireland unfree shall never be at peace (seen in 1989), (4) “Honour Ireland’s dead” with a Celtic cross and Easter lily, (5) “Armed struggle” and “Resistance 1916-1989” and three armed volunteers.

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Núada

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Núada of the Tuatha Dé Danann and Morrígan (from Jim Fitzpatrick’s Beneath The Sky Of Stars) embrace below a ram (from Fitzpatrick’s Senach The Spectre) and between Celtic creatures inspired by the Book Of Kells.

(This is probably not the “dragon mural” mentioned by Julian Watson in Circa #8.)

Unity flats, west Belfast

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West Tyrone Roll Of Honour

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This is an entirely repainted and expanded mural listing the West Tyrone Roll Of Honour. The portrait of Bobby Sands that was originally included in Everyone, Republican Or Otherwise is gone, leaving only the quote from Sands (as shown in the second image). In his place on the right is a volunteer in a hat with a tricoloured band; on the left, the firing party of the previous mural is replaced by a volunteer with AK-47. The names in the roll of honour remain the same though they have been rewritten in a greater space.

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