The emblem of Bloody Sunday (in Irish “Domhnach Na Fola”) is a Celtic-style dove (perhaps the NICRA dove) with an oak leaf (representing the city). The earliest presentation in the Collection is five years earlier than this image, from the 25th anniversary.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01607
The 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike is commemorated on the side of the Felons club with Bobby Ballagh’s Legacy Of The Hunger Strikes, showing ten doves breaking out of a H-Block. For the controversy over the image, see this Guardian article. Falls Road/Lake Glen Drive.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01471
Two images from the Sinn Fein [sic – Sınn Féın] office on the Falls Road, Belfast. A dove (inside a braided circle) carries a tricoloured ribbon. To the right is a list of prisoners, seen previously in 1995’s Sınn Féın Peace Action Monitor.
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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
M01368 M01369
The dove of peace holds the keys to freedom from Long Kesh.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
M01362
Vandalised “Peace through British withdrawal” board on Port Road, Letterkenny. On the left, a dove carries a tricoloured ribbon; on the right, a sketch of Cormac’s “Time for peace, time to go“.
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Copyright © 1996 Peter Moloney
M01299
A ‘green ribbon’ campaign board in Chamberlain Street, Derry, for the freedom (“saoirse”) of republican prisoners. The chains between two arms turn into doves as they are broken.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01254
Doves in flight over a flower meadow. There’s also a tree painted on the wall on the right – get in touch if you know anything about it.
Perhaps painted in 1988 along with murals depicting a paschal lamb (C00111 | X05493), a shamrock (C04981), Gaelic games (C04977), a harpist (M01248), and possibly this mural of the Knock apparition in 1879 (Street View).
Edlingham Street, New Lodge, north Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01249
A dove carrying an olive branch is shackled by a British ball and chain while the six counties rupture the four provinces of Ireland.
Donore Court, New Lodge, north Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01244
3 boards outside the IRSP offices on the Falls Road: “Saoırse” (freedom) – represented by a dove (or perhaps a lark) carrying keys through barbed wire – for all republican prisoners. Tony O’Neill, Marty McCartney, Sean Adams, Cathil Fox, Paul Norney, Daniel Rooney, Rory Dougan, Sean Kelly, Pat Sheehan, James Morgan, Fra Hamilton, Bernard Fox, Kevin Cosgrove, Gerry McDonnell
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01204 M01202 M01203
“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
M01064
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