The words “repatriation for Irish POW” were later added to this mural in Ballycolman, Strabane. But the prisoner in question, perhaps shown in the centre of the flag and in close-up in the second image, is unknown.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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A two-panel wall in Ballycolman, Strabane. On one side, a prison guard looms over a blanket man; on the other, the names and dates of death of the 1981 hunger strikers: Bobby Sands MP 5th May, Francies Hughes 12th May, Raymond McCreesh 21st May, Patsy O’Hara 21st May, Joe McDonnell 8th July, Martin Hurson 13th July, Kevin Lynch 1st Aug, Kieran Doherty TD 2nd Aug, Tom McElwee 8th Aug, Mickey Devine 20th Aug.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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A prisoner is menaced by shadows. “No justice for Irish people in British courts – Stop extradition.” Ballycolman, Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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The guard towers and gates of Long Kesh/HMP Maze are depicted in this mural in Ballycolman, Strabane. The words “Remember the prisoners and their families” would later be added in red across the top.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Republican mural protesting the treatment of prisoners and specifically strip searches. Painted by “Ballycolman Republican Youth”.
This is right-most of a series of 6 murals on a wall in Ballycolman estate, Strabane. To its left is Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Loyalist mural in Meekon Street, Belfast with a rare (and perhaps unique) image of a red fist smashing through the lower part of the island of Ireland (the Republic of Ireland, painted in the colours of green, white, and orange) while Northern Ireland — shown by an Ulster Banner — is unscathed. Below, “Ulster says no” with six-pointed star, Union flag, and Ulster Banner.
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Both UVF and UDA emblems (as well as PAF and YCV) in the quadrants of an Ulster banner shield with Northern Island in the middle. Union flags on the side and barbed wire above. No 5 of 9 on the south side of Percy Place, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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On the left of the lightning bolt are the soldiers of the 36th Ulster division (U.V.F.) R.I.R (Royal Irish Rifles) on the western front in 1916; on the right are “UVF prisoners of war, Long Kesh”.
A similar board was painted in the UVF compounds of Long Kesh. Of it, Billy Hutchinson (in his 2011 piece “Transcendental Art“) said, “My favourite mural was one inspired by the British anti-war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Suicide In The Trenches depicts a UVF volunteer split down the middle by a bolt of lightning. Half of him depicts a 36th Ulster Division soldier under heavy fire in a rainsoaked WW1 trench. The other half shows a ’70s volunteer incarcerated behind barbed wire and over-shadowed by watch towers.” (The piece – W2021.1.8 in the Ulster Museum collection – includes the last verse from Sassoon’s Suicide In The Trenches.)
Hutchinson also describes the importance of the Orange Cross welfare organisation in selling prisoner art produced inside the prison. Stevie McCrea of the RHC was killed in the Orange Cross in 1989 – see Stevie McCrea.
Craven Street, west Belfast
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The Ulster Banner, Union flag, St Andrew’s Saltire and the UVF’s own flag stand around the UVF red hand emblem (For God and Ulster, 1912), next to an LPOW hand in barbed wire.
The wide shot shows the accompanying YCV shamrock and an in-progress painting of the emblem of the 36th (Ulster) Division. For the completed version, see 1993.
Crumlin Road, Belfast, at Queensland and Tasmania streets.
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Loyalist prisoners of war (LPOW) mural in Rosebank Street, Belfast, with red hands wrapped in barbed wire, the Union flag and Ulster banner, under an assault rifle.
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Peter Moloney Collection 