Multi-coloured republican graffiti in St. James Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Free All POW
POWs
Send Our Prisoners Home
Loyalist stencil in Sandy Row, Belfast, demanding the release of political prisoners. A clenched fist with slogan in the shape of the letter “U”.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Free All POWs
A call for prisoners to be released during the 1994-1995 ceasefire following the Downing Street declaration.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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No Army
Here are four stencils in Chamberlain Street, Derry: Wear a green ribbon to get the prisoners home, “No Army”, “Brits Out” (swastika into bin), and, “No RUC”. With an ad for “the sounds at The Syrup Club, Gweedore” above.
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Wear A Green Ribbon
“Wear a green ribbon to free POWs” with another green ribbon cradling an Easter lily. In the top right, a swastika is thrown into a “Brits out” bin.
Lecky Road, Brandywell, Derry
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Derry POWs
An expanded (in 1995) list of Derry POWs on the side-wall of 700 Irish Political Hostages. Two lines have been added above the original and eight below.
(McGilloway, McLaughlin, McFadden, Moore, Doherty, Meehan, Taylor, Hayden, McFarland, Walker, Miller, Quigg, Crosson, Harkin, Campbell, McMonagle, Nicell, Rodgers, Deery, Dillon, Maxwell, Shotter)
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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A Smelly Bum
Four pieces of graffiti from Creggan Road, Derry: “Ian Paisley is a smelly bum”, “Disband the RUC”, “Free The POWs”, and “Brits out”.
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Copyright © 1994 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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These Boys Are Innocent
1993 image of the board on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, in support of the “Beechmount Five”: “Release Mark Prior, Liam Coogan, Jim McCabe, Kev Mulholland – these boys are innocent.” (See Greenleft News)
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Copyright © 1993 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
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