Lines from Bobby Sands’s poem Rhythm Of Time, alongside portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers and a lark in barbed wire. “There’s an inner thing in every man/Do you know this thing my friend?/It has withstood the blows of a million years/And will do so to the end.”
Fountain Street, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00884
1990 image of the Freedom’s Son’s mural on the Falls Road, west Belfast. The writing – D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA] – has been added where the volunteer’s legs used to be. A small plaque has been added at the top.
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M00802
This 1990 wide shot of (1989) Slan Go Foıll + Long Kesh shows at trio of armed volunteers on the bottom wall.
South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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M00801
A joint UVF/UFF/UDA mural in support of the Loyalist Prisoners Association. Ther is a small coil of barbed wire above the central flags.
For a similar joint sentiment, see Shankill Supports All The Loyalist Prisoners.
City Walk, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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M00825
A Northern Irish bulldog on a Union flag, along with the fist of the UFF and the barbed wire of the LPA.
Stroud Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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M00820
Another armlatite-carrying lark, between a clenched fist and a strand of barbed wire. To the right (in the second image), a celtic cross.
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Graffitied 1989 version of Don’t Let Them Die.
Beechmount Street, Belfast
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M00764
Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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M00769 M00755
“All the loyalist prisoners” here means UVF, UDA, YCV, and PAF. Previously: the same mural in 1988.
Percy Place, west Belfast.
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M00708
Silhouette of a republican paramilitary holding a Thompson sub-machine-gun, attempting to win freedom for a tricoloured Ireland encircled by barbed wire. Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00645
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