A large board on the old Top Of The Hill community centre, Gobnascale, Derry, showing a prancing stallion in front of a (neolithic) dolmen and (mediaeval) round tower (perhaps the missing tower where Long Tower now stands).
There is a thought that “Gobnascale” is Irish for “field of the stallion” (McLaughlin 1999).
Also on the community centre (in 1981): A Political Prisoner Of War.
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1994 version of the 1990 Spirit Of Freedom mural on Moyola Drive, Derry, with a faded James Connolly quote on the scroll: “There is no power on Earth [or: There is no outside force] capable of enforcing slavery on a people really resolved to be free, [and] valuing freedom more than life.”
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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A mix of old (Celtic designs and knotwork) and new (Disney characters dancing to a DJ) in a mural on the Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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This “Fáılte go dtí Ard Eoın” (Welcome to Ardoyne) mural celebrates the local Cumann Luthcleas Gael (Gaelic Athletic Club) (Tw) “founded 1902”, with images of a footballer and a camogie player. At the bottom is a standing eagle in Celtic style.
Havana Way, Belfast.
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Anyone know these artists? A mural in progress in Drumleck Gardens, Derry. Bobby Sands’s use of the lark as the “spirit of freedom” is combined with a James Connolly quote: “There is no power on Earth [or: There is no outside force] capable of enforcing slavery on a people really resolved to be free, [and] valuing freedom more than life.”
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Núada of the Tuatha Dé Danann and Morrígan (from Jim Fitzpatrick’s Beneath The Sky Of Stars) embrace below a ram (from Fitzpatrick’s Senach The Spectre) and between Celtic creatures inspired by the Book Of Kells.
(This is probably not the “dragon mural” mentioned by Julian Watson in Circa #8.)
Unity flats, west Belfast
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Three in a row in Mount Sion, Strabane. On the left, a single volunteer fires a funeral shot over a very faded saying of Pearse’s: “Life springs from death and from the graves of patriotic men and women spring living nations.” In the centre, another funeral volley over an INLA Roll Of Honour bearing the names Neil McMonagle, Colm McNutt, Pierce Moore, Patsy O’Hara, Kevin Lynch, Micky Devine, James McPhilemy. On the right, a masked INLA volunteer with Thompson sub-machine gun.
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In the myth of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Dagda took over the kingship when Nuada was injured. Dagda is in the centre of the (unfinished) mural above, smiting the soldier in the bottom right. Here is the Jim Fitzpatrick original, from 1977.
By Mo Chara Kelly in Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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“Stop extradition – support Dessie Ellis – don’t let him die on hungerstrike”. Mural by Marty Morris on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, showing a male Justice and a prisoner both in celtic style. For some background, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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A “final salute” (funeral volley) is fired over harp, shamrocks, and a knotwork bird in South Link, Belfast.
For the side wall, see Long Kesh.
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