A “final salute” (funeral volley) is fired over harp, shamrocks, and a knotwork bird in South Link, Belfast.
For the side wall, see Long Kesh.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Slán Go Fóıll
funeral volley/graveside mourner
West Tyrone Roll Of Honour
A final salute is fired over the names of west Tyrone Oglaigh na hErireann volunteers Jim McNally 1921, Sean Sharkey 1934, Charles McCafferty 1938, John James Kelly 1938, Tobias Molloy 1972, Eugene Devlin 1972, Seamus Harvey 1973, Gerald McGlynn 1973, Jim McGinn 1973, Patrick Cannon 1976, Peter McElchar 1976, Charles Breslin 1985, David Devine 1985, Michael Devine 1985, James Jospeh Connolly 1989.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Loch gCál
Here is an image of the completed Loch gCál/Loughgall mural (see also the in-progress image from 1987) in memory of the eight IRA volunteers from the East Tyrone brigade who were killed in an SAS ambush during an attack on an RUC base in May, 1987 (WP).
Their names are given here in Irish and (partially) in the old script:
“I ndıl cuimh[n]e de [= ar]
Óglach Pádraıg Ó Ceallaıġ [Patrick Kelly],
Óglach Séamus Ó Donn[ġ]aıle [Seamus Donnelly],
Óglach Deaglán Mac Aırt [Declan Arthurs],
Óglach Séamus Laıghneach [Jim Lynagh],
Óglach Gearóıd Ó Ceallacháın [Gerry O’Callaghan],
Óglach Pádraıg Mac Cearnaıgh [Pádraıg McKearney],
Óglach Antóın Ó Garmaıle [Ó Gormghaıle | Tony Gormley],
Óglach Eoghan Ó Ceallaıġ [Eugene Kelly]
an ochtar óglach de óglaigh na hÉireann a dúnmharú ag Loch gCál ar an ochtú lá Bealtaine 1987.”
[the eight volunteers from the Irish Volunteers [IRA] who were murdered at Loughgall on the eighth day of May, 1987]
The town (Loughgall) and the four provinces are also named in Irish. An Easter lily is at the centre of the Celtic cross in the middle of the image, above a lark in barbed wire and a gal gréıne/sunburst.
Painted by Mo Chara. The bright colours and sweeping clouds/skyline are inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
There is a list of the eight names, also in Irish, in the New Lodge, north Belfast.
Click here for Nuada And Loughgall together.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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Loch gCál
In-progress image of what would become the Loch gCál/Loughgall mural in memory of the eight IRA volunteers who were killed in an SAS ambush during an attack on an RUC base in 1987.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly and inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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Firing Party
A paint-bombed 1986 version of 1985’s Firing Party.
Chamberlain Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Roll Of Honour
A roll of honour in Albert Street, Belfast, commemorating volunteers of the IRA’s D company, 2nd battalion, who died from 1971 to 1979: Hughes, Quigley, McAreevy, Maguire, Donaghy, McKinney, O’Rawe, Marley, Campbell, Skillen, Kelly, Carson
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Firing Party
I Refuse To Change
On the main gable wall, a funeral volley of three volunteers fires over the coffin of Bobby Sands, with the beginning of a quote from Sands: “I refuse to change to sui[t people who oppress, torture and imprison me. They have suppressed my body and attacked my dignity, but I have the spirit of freedom that cannot be quenched by even the most horrendous treatment.]”
On the side wall, a prisoner is crucified, with the words “St Peter, let these men enter heaven, for they have served their time in hell.” – a variation on James Donahue’s WWII Soldier’s Poem (WP).
Westland Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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Resistance
More panels from Rossville Street, Derry, this time showing volunteers firing over a phoenix, a lark in barbed wire, a volunteer kneeling by a fire and a tricolour on a flagpole, and an Armalite rifle with the words “A weapon of the provisionals”.
For the rest of this wall (out of shot on the right), see Murdered By Paratroopers and Éıre Nua.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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A Political Prisoner Of War
Parts of a 1979 Bobby Sands An Phoblacht/Republican News article — The Lark And The Freedom Fighter — are featured in a 1981 mural in Gobnascale, Derry. “I refuse to change to suit the people who oppress, torture and imprison me, and who wish to dehumanize me. I have the spirit of freedom that cannot be quenched by even the most horrendous treatment. Of course I can be murdered, but while I remain alive, I remain what I am, a political prisoner of war.” B. Sands. MP. POW. OC.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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