Loyalist prisoners of war (LPOW) mural in Rosebank Street, Belfast, with red hands wrapped in barbed wire, the Union flag and Ulster banner, under an assault rifle.
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LPOW
assault rifle
UDA – WDA
UDA/UFF/WDA (Woodvale Defence Association) and William “Bucky” McCullough Memorial Flute Band mural, with silhouetted volunteers, images of various weapons (held in red hands), and barbed wire.
Heather Street, west Belfast.
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Dates back to at least 1987.
UDA – UVF
The UDA and UVF/YCV share a wall in Matchett Street, Belfast. In the main (UVF) panel, two hooded gunmen with rifles kneel beneath additional weapons on either side the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Orange flag and Ulster banner.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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Tell The World, Freedom Is At Hand
1987 version of the ANC-IRA mural on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast. Benjamin Moloise’s words on the right and the letters “IRA” below the shield have been painted out (perhaps to repair the paint-bombing visible in the 1986 version Tell The World Freedom Is At Hand) but more paint has been thrown over the mural and “UVF” has been spray-painted on.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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Our Day Will Come
The main panel, of three IRA volunteers with raised weapons, was painted by Sean ‘Conker’ Connolly, based on the poster below. Also on the wall are a Tricolour, “Sinn Fein/Gerry Adams” and a small board at the top with a raised fist and the slogan “Unity is strength”. Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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Keep Building Says SDLP
“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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IRA
An IRA volunteer in fatigues stands with a rifle. A simple version of the Sınn Féın logo can be seen in the background.
Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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Rossville Murals
A wide shot of the 14 panels along the bottom of Rossville flats, Derry, in 1986.
- Roll Of Honour
- 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)
- Phoenix-Volley
- Lark
- Resistance
- A Weapon Of The Provisionals
- Murdered By Paratroopers
- INLA
- Celtic Cross
- Ireland
- Eire Nua Phoenix
- Pearse & Connolly
- Get The Brits Out
- Weapon Of Resistance
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Bishop Street
These 1986 images of Bishop Street, Derry, show various murals falling into disrepair, though the Weapons Of The Armed Struggle panel has been cleaned up. Here is the complete wall in 1982.
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Venceremos
Here is a badly damaged, latter-day version of a mural we first saw in 1981: Venceremos.
Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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