Another 1994 update image of a 1989 Ballycolman/Strabane mural, a roll of honour for the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers next to a celtic cross with Starry Plough and Tricolour on pikes. “Saoirse.”
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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“Victory will be ours” – a slogan from inside a cell in the H Blocks. A circle of hands releases three doves: “freedom, justice, peace”. “We will be free.”
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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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
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Four in a row in Springhill Park, Strabane. (1) The ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers are shown on an H, but they have all had their eyes covered in blue paint. (2) You can kill the revolutionary but not the revolution (seen previously in Innisfree Gardens and also in 1981 in Rockdale St, Belfast and in Derry in 1981.) (3) Use arms when arms are needed. (4) A “West Tyrone command” roll of honour.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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“Victory to the hunger strikers”. A fist smashes through an “H”. St John’s Place, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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The ten deceased hunger strikers are named alongside a celtic cross with “saoırse” on a scroll, a tricolour and Starry Plough. Ballycolman, Strabane. Bobby Sands OC MP, Francies Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty TD, Tom McElwee, Mickey Devine.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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These are the same image, rotated for legibility, of the Hunger Strike memorial in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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A fist clutching barbed wire and an bound “H” breaking apart, with three demands: “No prison uniform, no prison work, free association”.
unknown street (Rosnareen?), Belfast
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Copyright © 1988 Alan Gallery, All rights reserved
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The volunteers on the left (from 1916) and right (from 1969) each hold a rifle, and the blanket man in the middle also appears to be holding a staff of some sort. Get in touch if you know exactly what it is, and if you can identify the Twinbrook street (Gardenmore Road?) where the mural was.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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