A faded mural in Beechmount Avenue, Strabane, with a (painted) “Provos” banner flying over crossed rifles and the Sunburst and Tricolour flags.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00893
Provos
Sunburst
Freedom
“Freedom: For freedom you fasted & died/For the five rights you were denied/For the evil we know to blame/For England shrouded in shame/For the deaths of young Irish lives/For the oath of a country that cried/For the murder of a lark in the sky.” This poem seems to be unique in Irish muraling – if you know anything about it, please leave a comment. The sword with wings appears to be the insignia of the SAS, but its presence in this is inexplicable; the harp might be taking a poke at it. Fountain Street, Strabane.
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M00861
Lark Of War
1990 image of Lark Of War, which includes the shields of the four provinces and their Irish names. (To the right of The Foreign Oppressive British Presence.)
Ballycolman, Strabane
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M00853
I nDıl Chuımhne
Celtic cross (with harp) ‘in fond memory’ of fallen republican volunteers. The Ulster flag makes a rare appearance alongside the Starry Plough, Tricolour, and Sunburst.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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M00844
Freedom’s Son’s
1990 image of the Freedom’s Son’s mural on the Falls Road, west Belfast. The writing – D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA] – has been added where the volunteer’s legs used to be. A small plaque has been added at the top.
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M00802
1916 Easter 1986
Here is the top half of a mural in Berwick Road/Paráid An Ardghleanna. The board at the top reproduces a 1972 postcard entitled Easter with two women – on the left a young woman (Ireland in flames, perhaps suggesting the Rising) and on the right, an old woman (Mother Ireland?) – watching over a prisoner by the light from a prison window. (Image #39 in Belinda Loftus’s 1982 dissertation Images In Conflict.)
The bottom (with quotes from Connolly and Pearse) was seen in the 1989 image An Attitude Of Revolt.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00798
Freedom’s Sons
Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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M00769 M00755
An Attitude Of Revolt
Tricoloured quotations from James Connolly and Patrick Pearse below the image of a kneeling volunteer with RPG launcher: “The great appear great because we are on our knees – let us rise” and “As long as Ireland is unfree, the only [honourable] attitude for Irishmen and [Irish]women is an attitude of revolt.”
Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast.
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M00751
Arms At The Ready
A masked volunteer with armalite on Springfield Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00747
Remember The Gibraltar Martyrs
A colourful array of flags – Tricolour, Ulster, Sunburst – bedeck a Celtic cross memorialising the Gibraltar Three.
Unity Place, Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00674
