1989 image of Is É Seo Nuadha Rí Tuatha Dé Danann and Loch gCál together at the top of Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
See also 1988 image of the pair, with Loch gCál in better condition.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00752
Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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A colourful array of flags – Tricolour, Ulster, Sunburst – bedeck a Celtic cross memorialising the Gibraltar Three.
Unity Place, Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00674
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
M00681
This post begins a series of five in a row on a wall in Ballycolman estate in Strabane. First (on the left) we have the shields of the four provinces, and their names in Irish, with a Tricoloured shield and sunburst shield of Na Fıanna in the middle.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00675
IRA mural in Springhill Park, Strabane. For the poster on which the three volunteers are based, see Our Day Will Come.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00644
Here is an image of the completed Loch gCál/Loughgall mural (see also the in-progress image from 1987) in memory of the eight IRA volunteers from the East Tyrone brigade who were killed in an SAS ambush during an attack on an RUC base in May, 1987 (WP).
Their names are given here in Irish and (partially) in the old script:
“I ndıl cuimh[n]e de [= ar]
Óglach Pádraıg Ó Ceallaıġ [Patrick Kelly],
Óglach Séamus Ó Donn[ġ]aıle [Seamus Donnelly],
Óglach Deaglán Mac Aırt [Declan Arthurs],
Óglach Séamus Laıghneach [Jim Lynagh],
Óglach Gearóıd Ó Ceallacháın [Gerry O’Callaghan],
Óglach Pádraıg Mac Cearnaıgh [Pádraıg McKearney],
Óglach Antóın Ó Garmaıle [Ó Gormghaıle | Tony Gormley],
Óglach Eoghan Ó Ceallaıġ [Eugene Kelly]
an ochtar óglach de óglaigh na hÉireann a dúnmharú ag Loch gCál ar an ochtú lá Bealtaine 1987.”
[the eight volunteers from the Irish Volunteers [IRA] who were murdered at Loughgall on the eighth day of May, 1987]
The town (Loughgall) and the four provinces are also named in Irish. An Easter lily is at the centre of the Celtic cross in the middle of the image, above a lark in barbed wire and a gal gréıne/sunburst.
Painted by Mo Chara. The bright colours and sweeping clouds/skyline are inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
There is a list of the eight names, also in Irish, in the New Lodge, north Belfast.
Click here for Nuada And Loughgall together.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
M00604
Here is an image of the Nuada and Loughgall/Loch gCál murals together at the top of Springhill Avenue in west Belfast, painted by Mo Chara and inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick.
For in-progress images see Loch gCál and Is É Seo Nuadha, Rí Tuatha Dé Danann. Also seen a year later, in 1989.
M00605
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
M00602
Or, with h-lenition, Teach Sheosaımh Mhıc Gıollabhuí. The Sınn Féın press centre on the Falls Road, Belfast, is named for anti-Treaty IRA man Joe McKelvey, who was also the founder of the O’Donovan Rossa GAA club in Belfast. The mural features the shields of the four provinces and Sınn Féın in Celtic-style lettering.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
M00507
In-progress image of what would become the Loch gCál/Loughgall mural in memory of the eight IRA volunteers who were killed in an SAS ambush during an attack on an RUC base in 1987.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly and inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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