These three images from around Conway Mill are from 2008, before the mill was renovated. At the time, the mill was home to Tar Anall ex-prisoners’ centre and the Eileen Hickey Irish republican History Museum, as well as a print-shop and mattress store.
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Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
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A UFF prisoner behind bars backed with silhouetted gunmen – the UFF would not stand down until November, 2007.
Danes Hill, Coleraine
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Still standing after a decade or more on Racecourse Road (see 1998) – a ‘green ribbon’ mural from the ceasefire/GFA period.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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“Free John Brady Now – End internment – W???/32CSM” on Chapel Road exiting east from Dungiven. John Brady was released under the Agreement but was returned to prison in 2003 on weapons charges. He died in prison in 2009 (RN); an inquest will begin in November 2018 (Irish News).
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“Political status now” – one of four such small boards along the Falls. The others are “Join Republican Sınn Féın 1905-2001“, “RSF“, and “Brits out, not sell out“. Below it (cut off) is “Go mall – páıstí’ (“Slowly – children”).
Islandbawn Street, Belfast
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Anti-extradition graffiti in Eastway and Gartan Square, Derry. Please get in touch if you can identify “Fergal” or “Tommy”.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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From left to right, here are the murals and memorial garden in Kenbaan Street, Belfast, to the UFF/UDA/UYM, and LPA [Loyalist Prisoners Association]. The plaques include a few names of volunteers who died after the peace (as recently as 2002).
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“1981 – hungerstrikers gain political status; 1998 – Good Friday Agreement signs it away; 2006 – political prisoners are again denied political status. Re-instate political status now!” “The hunger strikers died for political status”. “They weren’t criminals then! They still aren’t now!”. Boards on the railings outside the IRSP offices on the Falls Road.
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“Support republican prisoners. Political status now!” A phoenix rises over the watchtowers of Long Kesh.
Lineside, Coalisland
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