A lark (?) breaks down the bars and barbed wire of a prison.
Donore Court, New Lodge, north Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Free The POWs
barbed wire
Free St James POWs
3 boards outside the IRSP offices on the Falls Road: “Saoırse” (freedom) – represented by a dove (or perhaps a lark) carrying keys through barbed wire – for all republican prisoners. Tony O’Neill, Marty McCartney, Sean Adams, Cathil Fox, Paul Norney, Daniel Rooney, Rory Dougan, Sean Kelly, Pat Sheehan, James Morgan, Fra Hamilton, Bernard Fox, Kevin Cosgrove, Gerry McDonnell
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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700 Irish Political Hostages
A combination fist-dove smashes a line of barbed wire: “700 Irish political hostages – Release them now”. The names on the side wall: Martina Anderson, Martin Brogan, Danny Doyle, Martin O’Neill, Seamus Doherty, Adrian Kelly, Paul Kinsella, Ray McCartney, Gerry Hamilton, Paddy Villa, Jim Doherty, Don Brown, Pat McLaughlin, John Donnelly, Roy McCool, Phil Nolan, John McDevitt, Eddie McKeever
There was also a poster made of the same design.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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On The Blanket
Here is a very faded 1993 version of 1985’s On The Blanket, in Fahan Street, Derry. A blanket man stands in front of an “H”; on the right are a pair of hands in barbed wire.
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01055
Shutting The Gates Of Derry
Demand Segregation
A raised fist wrapped in barbed wire within a tricoloured circle. “New Lodge R.d youth demand segregation”.
New Lodge Road, north Belfast
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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Bulldog
1991 image of the Bulldog LPA mural in Stroud Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1991 Alan Gallery. All rights reserved. alangallery.com
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Rathcoole UFF LPA UDA
UDA/UFF mural in Rathcoole, with barbed wire for the Loyalist Prisoners Association.
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Copyright © 1991 Alan Gallery. All rights reserved. alangallery.com
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Armed Struggle
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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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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To The End
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
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Peter Moloney Collection 