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The Thirtieth Of January, 1972

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Above is a local interpretation of Robert Ballagh’s 1970 rendering of Goya’s The Third Of May 1808 in Glenfada Park, Derry/Doıre, site of four deaths on Bloody Sunday, 1972.

The original commemorates Spanish resistance to the forces of Napoleon (WP). For this Derry version, features from the city’s skyline – the Guildhall, St. Columb’s Cathedral, and an intact Governor Walker column – have replaced the original’s outline of Madrid, and an insignia of the Paras appears on the arm of a soldier. 

For Ballagh’s original (“1970”) version and a description and video of the launch see bloodysundaymarch.org. Here is an Eamonn McCann lecture on the political history of the Goya painting. Until recently, the piece above was adjacent to a version of Picasso’s Guernica.

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Margaretta D’Arcy

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Actor and activist Margaretta D’Arcy (here, “Margaritta” D’Arcy) was arrested in October, 2012, for climbing the perimeter of Shannon airport and standing on the runway, in protest at the use of the airport by US military planes. She was jailed – aged 79 – for nine-and-a-half weeks in 2014. (Irish Times | Journal)

The image above is a close-up of the Falls Curfew mural on the International Wall, using one of the painted “posters” that were added for Marian Price in 2012.

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The Way We Were

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Includes Rossville Flats, the walls of Derry, ?new buildings in Meenan Square?, the Free Gaza board that moved from the back of Free Derry Corner, to the railings at the bottom of Westland Street, to the Lecky Road underpass, and Free Derry corner before the houses in Lecky Road were demolished.

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History Is Ours

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“History is ours, and history is made by the people — La historia es nuestra y la hacon los pueblos”

This Northumberland Street board celebrates the socialist movement in 1970’s Chile. The Unidad Popular, whose emblem can be seen centre-left and in the close-up below, was a coalition of left-wing parties who supported the Marxist Salvador Allende (seen in the middle) for president in the election of 1970. Allende served as president from 1970-1973 until committing suicide during the coup.

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Free Otegi

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This pro-Basque mural on the International Wall on Divis Street calls for the release of Arnaldo Otegi, one-time ETA member and leader of a pro-Basque party, along with other political prisoners. (More information on Otegi at ig and WP.) “Pake bidean” is the Basque for “The pathway to peace”. 

(The mural is at the eastern end of the wall; takes the place of the Ian Knox anti-racism mural featured in Never Actually Existed.)

Update: Otegi was released in March, 2016 (Irish Times)

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O’Neill & Beattie

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“Anti-Racism World Cup. In memory of Dick O’Neill, Springfield Road, who fell [in the Spanish Civil War] at Jarama 14th February 1937, and, William Beattie, Wilton Street, Shankill Road, who fell at Brunete 23rd July 1937. No Pasarán!” Both towns are near Madrid. The flags are those of the International Brigade and the Irish Citizen Army.

See also the other tribute to the cross-community draw of International Brigade: Break The Connection With Capitalism.

The Anti-Racism World Cup is a soccer tournament held at the grounds of Donegal Celtic. See East Meets West.

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