A large Tricolour and the words of Padraig Pearse next to the island of Ireland with the letters “SF”. Westrock Drive, Belfast
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be At Peace
Ireland
Sinn Féin
The Sinn Féin symbol of the letters “SF” on the island of Ireland at the centre of a tricolour in AMCOMRI Street, Belfast. (“AMCOMRI” = “American Committee For The Relief Of Ireland, a U.S. charitable organisation founded in the 1920s.)
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Discover Ireland
Darkly humorous mural in Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, parodying the ‘Discover Ireland’ tourism advertisements: “Discover Ireland: sectarian RUC, loyalist UDR, the H Blocks, plastic bullets, murdering UDA, British thugs, Armagh hell-hole, special courts … but I bet you haven’t seen the half of it.”
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Struggle For Freedom
This two-part mural in Forest Street, Belfast, features (left) a Sunburst and a Starry Plough on either side of two volunteers who are watching the sun rise/set and (right) “Struggle for freedom” below an outline of the island against the green-white-and-gold stripes of the tricolour.
This mural dates back to 1981.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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All-Ireland Army
An armed volunteer against the backdrop of an undivided island of Ireland. Linsfort Drive, Derry. See also Sinn Féin, at the other end of this row of houses on Creggan Heights (but is dated 1987).
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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Ireland A Nation
“Ireland a nation, Irish and free” and “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (from Patrick Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa), with the island of Ireland in the colours of the Irish flag.
Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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Sınn Féın
The Sınn Féın logo on the island of Ireland, with green, white, and orange brickwork.
Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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The Island Of Ireland
The island of Ireland in the national colours of green, white, and orange. Rossville Street, Derry. For this mural in 1981, see Éıre Nua.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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Éıre
The view from Top Of The Hill looking down over the old town and the bogside. The island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, “Smash H-Block”, “Political status now”.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Éıre Nua
INLA and IRA murals on Rossville Street, Derry, including a volunteer waving the Starry Plough, a Celtic cross draped in the Irish tricolour and a Starry Plough, the island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, a phoenix, Pearse & Connolly, Thatcher-headed Britain biting/pulling on Ireland – “Get the Brits out!”, and the RPG as “IRA weapon of resistance”.
For the first part of the wall (out of shot on the left), see Resistance and Murdered By Paratroopers).
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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