“13 Gone [Bloody Sunday, January 1972] But Not For Gotten. We got 18 and Mountbatten” [Warrenpoint and Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, both on 27 August, 1979], “IRA”, “UTP” and an armalite
Falls Road Library, Sevastopol Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00047
Graffiti on the Falls library, Falls Road, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00042
“God made the Catholics and the armalite made us equal”, “H-Block”, “IRA”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00035
“Smash H Block”, “INLA”, “H-Block”, “Provies”. Carefully-done lettering is a development from simple graffiti and a pre-cursor to the murals of 1981 – see Visual History 03.
Shaws Road/Rosnareen, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00022 M00081
“INLA”, “UTP”, POWs Status”, “Support the boys in H Block”
Brandywell Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00017
“The Provo’s are the people and [the] people are the Provos”, posters of hunger-strikers Tom McElwee, Kieran Doherty, Martin Hurson, Joe McDonnell, Kevin Lynch, Michael Devine
Falls Road, Belfast (Where exactly? Please get in touch!)
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00016
Graffiti in Andersonstown, Belfast (please leave a comment if you know the street – possibly Glen Road?)
“Saor agus Gaeḋealaċ” [or, with h-lenition, Saor agus Gaedhealach”] and “H-Block Provo’s rule ATown”
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00013
Also “Bobby Sands MP”
Whiterock Road, west Belfast — on the Ballymurphy community centre above the graveyard.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00007
“Political status must stay”, “Brits out, peace in”, “Provos rule” – graffiti in Lone Moor Road, Brandywell, Derry.
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Copyright © 1980 Peter Moloney
M00374
“Brit’s beware” “of the M.60”, “the Provos”, “Provos rule”, “RUC cunts”, “evil”, “devil”.
Corporation Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1980 Peter Moloney
M00373
Peter Moloney Collection 