The 1989 image of this Ballycolman Republican Socialist Youth mural was black and white, suggesting that it was not then finished. By 1990, a Tricolour had been painted in the background but the paint had deteriorated in many places.
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Volunteers carrying an armalite and an RPG launcher in Ballycolman estate, Strabane.
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Five panels in a row in Innisfree Gardens, Strabane: (1) the shield of the four provinces, (2) a phoenix with “Out of the ashes rose the provisionals” (3) Ireland unfree shall never be at peace (seen in 1989), (4) “Honour Ireland’s dead” with a Celtic cross and Easter lily, (5) “Armed struggle” and “Resistance 1916-1989” and three armed volunteers.
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1990 image of Provisionals, with most of the adjacent mural visible – Pearse’s proclamation at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa: Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Volunteers in the Tyrone countryside suffer some tactical paint-bombing.
Fountain Street (Sráıd An Fhuaráın), Strabane.
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The words “Irish republican army” become the barrel of an assault rifle, with “IRA” as the magazine. Previously in the shape of a rifle: Tıocfaıdh Ár lá
Springhill Park, Strabane
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“… 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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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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1990 image of Lark Of War, which includes the shields of the four provinces and their Irish names. (To the right of The Foreign Oppressive British Presence.)
Ballycolman, Strabane
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1990 image of The Foreign Oppressive British Presence (which is next to the Lark Of War).
Ballycolman, Strabane.
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