Three in a row in Mount Sion, Strabane. On the left, a single volunteer fires a funeral shot over a very faded saying of Pearse’s: “Life springs from death and from the graves of patriotic men and women spring living nations.” In the centre, another funeral volley over an INLA Roll Of Honour bearing the names Neil McMonagle, Colm McNutt, Pierce Moore, Patsy O’Hara, Kevin Lynch, Micky Devine, James McPhilemy. On the right, a masked INLA volunteer with Thompson sub-machine gun.
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.
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.
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.
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
Four volunteers, backgrounded by a phoenix, fire a funeral volley. The mural might be based on a photograph from the 1984 funeral of Derry Brigade volunteers William Fleming and Danny Doherty (Fb).
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).
