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Keep Building Says SDLP

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“Keep building says SDLP. Don’t keep building say the people of South Armagh” (referring to British Army installations). “Saoırse Ceart Síocháın”/”Freedom Justice Peace”, and a hand-painted “Tıocfıadh Ár Lá” and Tricolour and Sunburst flags on crossed pikes, with an armalite. Sinn Féin election posters and republican symbols in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.

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Rossville Murals

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A wide shot of the 14 panels along the bottom of Rossville flats, Derry, in 1986.

  1. Roll Of Honour
  2. They May Kill The Revolutionary
    (no separate image; below is a close-up from the image above; there’s an image of the mural at CCDL; and here’s a version in Belfast)
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  3. Phoenix-Volley
  4. Lark
  5. Resistance
  6. A Weapon Of The Provisionals
  7. Murdered By Paratroopers
  8. INLA
  9. Celtic Cross
  10. Ireland
  11. Eire Nua Phoenix
  12. Pearse & Connolly
  13. Get The Brits Out
  14. Weapon Of Resistance

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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Tell The World, Freedom Is At Hand

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The death by hanging of African National Congress supporter Benjamin Moloise on 18 October, 1985, for the alleged murder of a South African policeman, drew international condemnation and led to widespread rioting in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. (ExecutedToday | Jet) His words, “tell the world, freedom is at hand”, are paired with a phrase from Bobby Sands, “we aim to be free”, in this ANC-IRA mural featuring an armalite and a zulu shield and spear. In the second and third images the boards (above the mural) declaring west Belfast an “apartheid free zone”/”ceantar saor ó apartheıd” can be seen.

“Beır bua” [seize victory]; “erected by Sınn Féın April 1986”

Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá/Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast

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Roll Of Honour

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This is a black-and-white, English-language, version of a ‘roll of honour’, with names in Celtic script, mural that would quickly be redone (see I gCuimhne Agus In Onóir). The graffiti underneath read Maggie Lured Hurd To Be A Turd. There is also graffiti on the low wall: “All the queens horses and [all the queens men] couldn’t catch the IRA in [London again]”. Kells Walk/Rossville Street, Derry

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I gCuımhne Agus In Onóır

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“In memory and in honour” — the dead volunteer of the Derry troubles is made equivalent to the Celtic warrior of Irish mythology. Rossville Street, Derry. The list is longer than the previous version of this mural (Roll Of Honour) and than in In Proud And Loving Members Of Derry’s Dead Volunteers: Joseph Coyle, Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagan, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James/Seamus Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe/Joseph Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Brian (= Bernard?) Coyle, Dennis/Denis Heaney, Patrick/Patsy Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell, Richard Quigley, Danny Doherty, William Fleming, Ciaran Fleming, Charles English

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