Four people in rags search for potatoes in a field, with abandoned houses in the background. A mural commemorating the Great Hunger, based on images from the reports of London Illustrated, on the New Lodge Road.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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There was no famine; it was genocide. Mural for the 150th anniversary mural of An Gorta Mór, Falls Road, Belfast. With a dove on the chimney and a green ribbon below. Signed Roisín Byrne & Kathy Rooney
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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1995 images of the Celtic-Disney mash-up on the Falls Road, Belfast. (Seen previously in 1993)
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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1994 image of an Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann mural in Ballycolman, Strabane, with crossed rifles between Tricolour and Sunburst flags. Seen previously in 1989.
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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