Two IRA volunteers with assault rifles and an RPG celebrate victory. Modified version of the 1982 PLO-IRA mural.
Eastway, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01579
Victory
Sunburst
Still On
2001 image of the masked volunteers previously seen in 1997 in Lower Stanfield Street. It is extremely unusual for a (republican) “hooded gunman” mural to survive to this date. We conjectured in the earlier post that the creation of the mural dates to the period between the ceasefires.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01511
Our Revenge Will Be The Laughter Of Our Children
For the 20th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, this freestanding “H” was constructed along the Falls Road, Belfast. Across the centre bar are the words (usually attributed to Bobby Sands) “our revenge will be the laughter of our children” and images of IRA (Tricolour) and youth (Sunburst) volunteers firing over a lark encircled in barbed wire.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01461
On Again
A mural of traditional republican symbols – armed and masked volunteers with celtic cross, phoenix, pikes, Tricolour and Sunburst flags – but unusual for 1997. Perhaps it dates to the period before the second/renewed ceasefire, on July 19th. Stanfield Place, Belfast. M01346
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
M01346
Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann
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
M01147
We Will Meet Force With Force
1994 images of five (of six) adjacent panels in Ballycolman, Strabane. From left to right: We will meet force with force (1989 | 1990), Che Guevara – They may kill the revolutionary but never the revolution (1989 | 1990), Wear an Easter lily (1989 | 1990), James Connolly – Easter/Cáısc 1916 (1989), Óglaıgh na hÉıreann (1989), [out of shot: Stop Strip Searches (1989 | 1990)]. The set of six in 1990.
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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Graveside Volley
Mirror-image volunteers fire over a Celtic cross with wreath and republican flags. This mural was perhaps left incomplete, and perhaps because of the ceasefire.
Drumleck Drive, Derry
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
M01075
Who Fears To Speak Of Easter Week
1993 image of 1991’s Who Fears To Speak Of Easter Week.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01065
Who Fears To Speak Of Easter Week
Two images of a mural for the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising (éirí amach na Casca 1916-1991) by Mo Chara Kelly, who recreates a piece by Robert Ballagh showing the signatories of the Proclamation (and Countess Markievicz) with raised fists (included below). A phoenix is added, above. Glenalina Road/Whiterock Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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GRY
Francis Hughes and the Tricolour, Starry Plough, and Sunburst flags. “GRY” perhaps for “Gobnascale Republican Youth”.
Gobnascale, Derry.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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