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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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In Proud And Loving Memory Of Derry’s Dead Volunteers

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M00313 Bligh's Gdns 1985+

Derry volunteers who died between 1970 and 1982 are commemorated in this Derry mural. Their names are listed on scrolls on either side of a phoenix. Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Joseph Coyle, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagen, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Bernard Coyle, Dennis Heaney, Patrick Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell

Bligh’s Gardens, Derry

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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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They Demand These Rights

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M00195 Central Dr 1982+

M00196 Central Dr 1982+

The ten hunger strikers and the five demands, on either side of a phoenix with Sunburst and Tricolour:

“Bobby Sands; Francis Hughes; Raymond McCreesh; Patsy O’Hara; Joe McDonnell; Martin Hurson; Kevin Lynch; Kieran Dohery; Thomas McElwee; Michael Devine”

“No prison uniform; no prison work; free associaiton; letters, parcels, visits; full remission: as prisoners of war they demand these rights”

Central Drive, Creggan, Derry

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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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Survivor

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M00192 Anne St 1982+

The mural above, painted in 1981, shows a phoenix rising from the shields of the four provinces and a stand of three flags: Starry Plough, Tricolour, and Sunburst. The flags are flying from regular poles, before the custom took hold of painting flags on pikes in order to include the 1798 rebellion. The mural continued to exist, untouched, for many years and is the oldest original mural in the north.

Anne Street/Glendara, Brandywell, Derry

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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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