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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The Housing Executive/European Regional Development Fund plaque is presumably not for this “road sign” of the celebrating sniper! See previously: Free Derry Corner 1996 | The Boys Are Back.
Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry
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The imagery runs the gamut from a koala, a Native American, a tricoloured shamrock, and a donkey between curtains, to hurleys and The Petrol Bomber, to Bart Simpson. Drumleck Drive, Derry.
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Two IRA volunteers with assault rifles and an RPG celebrate victory. Modified version of the 1982 PLO-IRA mural.
Eastway, Derry
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The Young Citizen Volunteers are the youth wing of the UVF. This mural shows them on manoeuvres in the countryside and in the local Donegall Pass area of the South Belfast 2nd battalion.
Walnut Street, south Belfast
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A hooded gunman welcomes you to “loyalist Sandy Row, heartland of South Belfast Ulster Freedom Fighters. Quis separabit.” The wording is perhaps an imitation of Free Derry Corner.
Linfield Road, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Sandy Row mural with large wings behind UFF and UDA flags and insignia, with hooded gunmen on either side and “Fuck Rangers” graffiti.
Albion Street, south Belfast
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A red hand of the Sandy Row UDA clasps the barrel of a rifle. With “RIRA” graffiti in the bottom left.
Blythe Street, south Belfast
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2001 image of the masked volunteers previously seen in 1997 in Lower Stanfield Street. It is extremely unusual for a (republican) “hooded gunman” mural to survive to this date. We conjectured in the earlier post that the creation of the mural dates to the period between the ceasefires.
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IRA 3rd battation volunteers Joseph Downey, Brendan Davison, and Tony Nolan are commemorated with a mural of a firing party and the crests of the four provinces.
Lower Stanfield Street, south Belfast
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