The Women Of 1916

“This mural is dedicated to the Women of Cumann Na mBan, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann & Sınn Féın.” Image “from R[uth] Taillon’s book The Women Of 1916.” Taillon is a Canadian who moved to Belfast in 1980 and has been doing work with the women’s movement in the north and on women’s history – see NVTv.w

Hawthorn Street, west Belfast

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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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INLA Roll Of Honour

Six INLA volunteers are remembered on a memorial stone in the City Cemetery, Derry. The other memorial is to the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers (“They were ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances whose steadfast resolve, discipline, and unity of purpose prevailed”) and five local “comrades and friends”.

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Copyright © 2000 Peter Moloney
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Bua Nó Bás

Three boards on the Falls Road, Belfast. The first pays homage to Óglaigh na hÉireann (IRA) by mixing ornate knotwork and Celtic imagery of a dolmen and warrior with sword with a volley of pistol and rifle; the second is a list of “local republican POWs”, almost identical to the list in Beechmount POWs (for a list of names see, 1995 Disband RUC); the third links the revolutionaries of 1916 with the armed struggle “1916-1997”.

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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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The Heroes Of 1916

Cú Chulaınn and an Easter Rising volunteer form “a tribute to the heroes of 1916”: “We … declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.” (From the Proclamation.)

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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Disband RUC

“Disband RUC” and a small “No RUC” road sign and Easter lily, above a large Tricolour and a “green ribbon” list of “Local Republican POWs”: Mickey Duff, Stephen Jameson, Desmond Madden, Gerard, Mateer, Kevin McShane, George Mervyn, Scott Monaghan, Ciaran Morrison, Thomas O’Dwyer, Noel Cosgrove, Mark Skillen, Ciaran SMyth, Christopher Walsh, Ciaran Collins, Patrick Ireland, Michaal Duffy.

Falls Road, Belfast

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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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