The mural to the first child killed in the Troubles, Annette McGavigan, entitled The Death Of Innocence, was repainted by the Bogside Artists in 2006. On account of the success of the peace process and IRA decommissioning of weapons, the rifle on the left is broken. The info board is from 2007.
Previously seen in 1999 in progress | 2000 | 2004.
See also the Visual History page on The People’s Gallery.
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Copyright © 2006/2007 Peter Moloney
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“The right not to be bullied, to be safe from war, to privacy, to play, to be happy.” Duncairn Parade, Belfast. For the title panel, with “to be loved, to family life, to freedom of expression, to life, to your own beliefs” (on the New Lodge Road) see The Right To Be Happy.
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
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2004 image of the ‘UN Day For The Eradication Of Poverty’ (October 17th) mural in Dunlewey Street, Belfast, previously seen in 1998. “1/4 of W. Belfast is under 15 yrs”. “12 of 16 most deprived wards are in WB”.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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Érıu cherishes the children of all races. “Teens for justice Summer School 2004”, “Relatives for justice”. Clonard and Divis are portrayed in the background.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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Annette McGavigan, aged 14 years, was shot up Westland Street, at Blucher Street in 1971, the first child to be killed in the Troubles. Here are two in-progress shots from 1999 and the finished product in 2000.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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“Whoever we are, wherever we live, these rights belong to all children under the sun and the moon and the stars, whether we live in cities or towns or villages or in the mountains or valleys or deserts or forests or jungles. Anywhere and everywhere in the big wide world these are the rights of every child.” No war, poverty, or spoils. Signposts mark the way to Ofer Prison Camp in the West Bank and Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Islandbawn Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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A week before Carol Ann Kelly was shot in Twinbrook, 14 year-old Julie Livingstone was also killed by a plastic bullet on May 13th, 1981 in Lenadoon. The stone shown above “was erected by young people of Leicester England”.
Stewartstown Road, Belfast (though not the stone currently at the bottom of Lenadoon Road).
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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12-year-old Carol Ann Kelly was shot by the British Army on May 22nd, 1981, and died three days later. Eight other children are remembered in this mural: Tobias Molloy, Frances Rowntree, Seamus Duffy, Paul Whitters, Stephen McConomy, Brian Stewart, Stephan Geddis, and Julie Livingstone. Molloy and Rowntree were killed by rubber bullets, the rest by plastic bullets. The mural, by Andrea Redmond, is in Twinbrook Road, Dunmurry, near where Kelly was shot.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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The imagery runs the gamut from a koala, a Native American, a tricoloured shamrock, and a donkey between curtains, to hurleys and The Petrol Bomber, to Bart Simpson. Drumleck Drive, Derry.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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1999 image of the Upper Springfield Development Trust (formed in 1993 from the Upper Springfield Forum) mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, now with a large vent unfortunately sticking out of the middle of it. “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí”. (Praise youth and it will flourish.)
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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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