1990 image of Lark Of War, which includes the shields of the four provinces and their Irish names. (To the right of The Foreign Oppressive British Presence.)
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00853
1990 image of the Freedom’s Son’s mural on the Falls Road, west Belfast. The writing – D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA] – has been added where the volunteer’s legs used to be. A small plaque has been added at the top.
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M00802
Manacles “Made in Britain” constrain the republican desire for a united Ireland, contrary to the burning GPO and rising phoenix.
The close-up image shows the plaque to local (A Company 2nd Battalion) IRA volunteers: Stan Carberry, Frankie Dodds, Paul Fox, Sean Bailey, Paul Marlowe, Tony Campbell. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Beechmount Avenue.
“Fuaır sıad bás ar son na hÉıreann”, “Ireland unfree will never be at peace”.
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Rather than being trapped in barbed wire, this lark carries an armalite rifle across the four provinces of Ireland. (BRY = Ballycolman Republican Youth)
Ballycolman estate, Strabane
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M00768
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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A colourful array of flags – Tricolour, Ulster, Sunburst – bedeck a Celtic cross memorialising the Gibraltar Three.
Unity Place, Belfast
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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
