“Hunger strikers murdered by the crown”, “Out of the ashes arose the Provisionals”, with a primitive phoenix, sunburst flag, and tricolour.
Blucher Street/Lisfannon Park, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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The first names of six hunger-strikers — Bobby, Francis, Patsy, Raymond, Joe, Martin — on a ribbon held by a tricoloured phoenix against a sunburst, flanked by Starry Plough and Tricolour and volunteers firing a final salute. The ribbon would be expanded to include the first names of all ten 1981 hunger strikers – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
Painted by Con in Rockdale Street, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00116
“Venceremos” is a Spanish Civil War slogan meaning “we will win (or: overcome)”, here alongside Irish revolutionaries armed with rifles and machine guns against a background of tricolour and sunburst.
Slemish Way/Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00115
On the side of the Bogside Inn on Westland Street, Derry: “Easter 1916”, “1975” (suggesting that the date in the catalogue is wrong), “PIRA Provos”. The lower-level graffiti was painted out in 1981 – see Westland Street, 1981
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Copyright © 1973 Peter Moloney
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Peter Moloney Collection 