“Victory to the hunger strikers”. A fist smashes through an “H”. St John’s Place, Strabane.
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Smash H Block
IRA
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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West Tyrone Roll Of Honour
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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The Foreign Oppressive British Presence
1990 image of The Foreign Oppressive British Presence (which is next to the Lark Of War).
Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Derry Volunteers Commemoration
Joe Coyle, Tommy McCool (and two of his children) and Tommy Carlin died as a result of a premature explosion in the McCool family kitchen. Coyle and McCool died on June 27th; Carlin succumbed to his injuries on July 8th, 1970.
The board shown, announcing a march on Sunday 24th (June) 1990, is on the rear of Free Derry Corner, (Visual History), Lecky Road, Derry.
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Free Ireland
Manacles “Made in Britain” constrain the republican desire for a united Ireland, contrary to the burning GPO and rising phoenix.
The close-up image shows the plaque to local (A Company 2nd Battalion) IRA volunteers: Stan Carberry, Frankie Dodds, Paul Fox, Sean Bailey, Paul Marlowe, Tony Campbell. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Beechmount Avenue.
“Fuaır sıad bás ar son na hÉıreann”, “Ireland unfree will never be at peace”.
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Semtex – Ozone Friendly
During the 1980s, the hole in the ozone layer was a big concern. Production of CFCs ceased in 1994. Also visible: “Up the bongo babes” and “PIRA”.
Falls Road (where, exactly?), west Belfast
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Nuada & Loughgall
1989 image of Is É Seo Nuadha Rí Tuatha Dé Danann and Loch gCál together at the top of Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
See also 1988 image of the pair, with Loch gCál in better condition.
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West Tyrone Roll Of Honour
A final salute is fired over the names of west Tyrone Oglaigh na hErireann volunteers Jim McNally 1921, Sean Sharkey 1934, Charles McCafferty 1938, John James Kelly 1938, Tobias Molloy 1972, Eugene Devlin 1972, Seamus Harvey 1973, Gerald McGlynn 1973, Jim McGinn 1973, Patrick Cannon 1976, Peter McElchar 1976, Charles Breslin 1985, David Devine 1985, Michael Devine 1985, James Jospeh Connolly 1989.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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The Foreign, Oppressive British Presence
A Provisional IRA gunman takes inspiration from Bobby Sands: “There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed.” Ballycolman, Strabane
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Peter Moloney Collection 