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Emancipation Of Women

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The slogan “For the revolution to triumph in its totality there must be emancipation of women” is attributed here to a “James MacNeill (or MacNell) but it is also found in connection with the women’s league of the Zimbabwe African National Union – see the second image among these anti-imperialism placards.

The mural shows a female soldier whose open palms support outstretched arms holding a paintbrush, a hammer, and a book. (For the same idea in Derry, see The Destructive Talents Of The RUC.) 

Ballycolman estrate, Strabane.

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The People Arose In ’69

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This is a touched-up version of the phoenix mural, originally painted in 1981, in Clowney Street, Belfast. The phoenix has white tips to its wings and the mural is signed simply “Done by Sınn Féın”. The four provinces and the verses remain as before: “The people arose in 69/they will do it again at any time. Maggie Thatcher think again/don’t let our brave men die in vain.” Election posters for Gerry Adams of Sınn Féın are above the mural.

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Rossville Murals

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A wide shot of the 14 panels along the bottom of Rossville flats, Derry, in 1986.

  1. Roll Of Honour
  2. They May Kill The Revolutionary
    (no separate image; below is a close-up from the image above; there’s an image of the mural at CCDL; and here’s a version in Belfast)
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  3. Phoenix-Volley
  4. Lark
  5. Resistance
  6. A Weapon Of The Provisionals
  7. Murdered By Paratroopers
  8. INLA
  9. Celtic Cross
  10. Ireland
  11. Eire Nua Phoenix
  12. Pearse & Connolly
  13. Get The Brits Out
  14. Weapon Of Resistance

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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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