“Easter 1916-72” and a large tricolour in Howard Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney (according to the spreadsheet, but perhaps 1972? Compare with M00032)
M00031
Provisionals For Freedom
IRA
Viva Argentina Ole!
The war over the Falkland/Malvinas islands lasted ten weeks from April to June, 1982. Sympathies in the Bogside lay with the Argentinians. “Britan[n]ia rules the waves no more”, “Join Na Fıanna Eıreann now” and one other indecipherable slogan. Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00023
Don’t Let Them Die
“Dont let them die” with an Irish tricolour and “IRA”. On Central Drive, Derry and next to The Conveyor Belt.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
M00030
Armalite
An armalite on the corner of Falls Road library in Sevastopol Street, Belfast (and visible at the edge of 13 Gone But Not Forgotten) points at a saracen (or Humber Pig) parked on the pavement. “Provos” graffiti is on the abandoned houses on the Falls Road.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00221
Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann
The four provinces are named in Irish/Gaelic — Uladh/Ulster, Laıghean/Leinster, Muman/Munster, Connacta/Connaght — around a (vandalised) image of an IRA (óglaıgh na hÉıreann) volunteer.
unknown street, (Beechmount?) Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00219 (see also X05727)
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Violence Is The Voice Of An Oppressed People
Martin Luther King in 1966 (in an interview on CBS) said “A riot is the language of the unheard” and in 1967 (in “Beyond Vietnam“) wrote “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” Misquoted and taken out of context, his words are used approvingly in this INLA/IRA mural.
Gransha Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00216
In Loving Memory
Rising behind a set of crosses, it’s not clear whether the sunburst in the mural above is only religious in nature or also symbolises the Fianna. It rises between the Starry Plough and the Tricolour. To the left is a list of the deceased hunger-strikers — Roll of honour: Volunteers B. Sands MP, F. Hughes, R. McCreesh, P. O’Hara, J. McDonnell, M. Hurson, K. Lynch, K. Doherty TD, T. McElwee, M. Devine.” — and to the right, a poem: The Volunteer: I stood beside an Irish grave/A green and silent plot/A little cross marked RIP/Was all that marked the spot.
?Berwick Rd, Ardoyne? Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00210
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Provisional IRA
A phoenix rising from blue, green, and red flames, flanked by an AK-47(?) and an armalite and tricolours on halberds.
Lenadoon Walk, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00209
Victory To The Armagh Women
“Victory to the Armagh women” and “Provisional IRA” and an armalite. Rosnareen Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00201
Westland Street, 1981
The previous street-level graffiti on Westland Street, Derry — for which see 1973’s PIRA Provos — is shown here being repainted with a series of three panels: a tricolour and starry plough, hands in chains, and H-block.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00187 M00186
