An unfinished mural, with an armed volunteer crouching in a street of terraced houses, in Gardenmore Road, Dunmurry/Belfast. There’s a “No RUC” board above.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Active Service
assault rifle
Out Of The Ashes of 1969
“In Ireland’s darkest hour her sons and daughters have always rallied to her cause” and “out of the ashes of 1969 arose the Provisionals”. Different generations of Irish rebellion are portrayed: there is a 1798/1803 pikeman in the background, an early IRA man on the left, and female and male volunteers from the Troubles in the foreground.
Jasmine Corner/Gardenmore Road, Twinbrook, Dunmurry/Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Our Actions Are Political Not Criminal
“Republican Sınn Féın demands political status for all republican POWs NOW”. Vintage imagery, of a blanket man and of a 1981 trio of IRA volunteers with weapons, used in an RSF board in Divis Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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RIRA – BCRF
Two armed and masked volunteers hold aloft an RPG, claiming “victory”, even though “our day” is still coming (tıocfaıdh ár lá). This is a crude version of the 1982 PLO -IRA mural in Belfast, but the direct ancestor of this board is the similar one – Victory – on Eastway, Derry, from 2000.
Please get in touch if you know what “BCRF” stands for. “CRF” (by itself) stands for “Catholic Reaction Force”. So, perhaps “Bogside Catholic reaction Force”? Or Bogside-Creggan Reaction Force”?
Fahan Street, Derry
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Shadow Of A UFF Gunman
Stencil of a UFF volunteer in kneeling position in Kennedy Place, Londonderry. With faded C-18 graffiti on the right.
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Spirit Of Freedom
Two faded and damaged murals side-by-side in Carnagat Road, Newry. On the left, a lark exhibiting the “spirit of freedom – B Sands” carries an assault rifle; on the left the torch of freedom is raised in front of the Sunburst and Tricolour.
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So Long As You Continue To Oppress Us
This is a faded mural in Carnagat Road, Newry. On the left is an armed volunteer and on the right are Tricolour and Starry Plough flags. The writing in the middle is obscured: “So long as you continue to oppress us you will meet …”. Get in touch if you can complete the rest.
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M01746
Disband The RUC
The three-in-one image of RUC policeman (the cap), Orange Order memer (collarette), and paramilitary (the assault rifle).
Slieve Gullion Road, Newry
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IRA
The original version of this mural (in 1994) had the words “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann” rather than IRA and lacked the Starry Plough – the sunburst and hooded gunman (with Uzi?) remain the same.
Carnagat Road, Newry
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Political Status Now!
An early IRPWA [Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association] flag, a Tricolour with a gunman and fists in manacles, demanding “political status now!” in Lecky Road, Derry.
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