2002 image of “RUC must go” – a plea for a police force independent of the Orange Order or paramilitaries.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01622
RUC Must Go
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Our Actions Are Political Not Criminal
“Republican Sınn Féın demands political status for all republican POWs NOW”. Vintage imagery, of a blanket man and of a 1981 trio of IRA volunteers with weapons, used in an RSF board in Divis Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01620
Vol. Mickey Devine
Derry INLA volunteer Mickey Devine was the tenth and last of the 1981 hunger strikers to die, on August 20th. The board shown in this image is in Rathkeele Way, on the gable wall of the family home of his sister Margaret.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01617
Murder In Mind
A small tribute to the Bloody Sunday dead on the 30th anniversary of the event: portraits of fifteen victims with two verses of a song “Murder In Mind”: “They came to our town, the Paras, with murder in mind//As people marched down from Creggan/Towards the Guildhall for civil rights/It was a cold but sunny day/No one could image what was in front of them that sunny day.//The Paras stood in William Street/Laughing and chatting and raring to go/To murder for king and crown/And for Ted Heath 10 Downing Street”.
For the memorial pillar itself, see these images from 1974, its inaugural year.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01606
PSNI Out
“PSNI out”, “CRF” (Catholic Reaction Force) “RIRA” and “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) graffiti in (the old) Dove Gardens, Derry. A Celtic player (Henrik Larsson?) completes the scene.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01614
Bloody Sunday
This Bloody Sunday info board in Rossville Street, Derry, is directed at an international audience, being “dedicated to all those throughout the world who have struggled, suffered imprisonment and lost their lives in the pursuit of liberty, justice and civil rights” and focusing as much on the Widgery report (“branded a whitewash by human rights groups throughout the world”) and continued demands for justice as on the events of the day.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01605
Nothing Has Changed!
David Trimble (or John Hume?), George Mitchell? (wearing the British crown; J1506 suggests the SDLP’s Mark Durkan), and Ian Paisley are the puppets of the RUC (rebranded as the PSNI).
Fahan Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01608
Seamus Bradley
“In proud and loving memory of Vol. Seamus Bradley, killed on active service 31st July 1972. Beırıgí bua.” For (a little) more, see Hegarty And Bradley; for much more, see Volunteer Seamus Bradley.
Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Hegarty And Bradley
“On July 31st 2001 two tree were planted on the grounds of Sean Dolan‘s GFC to commemorate Daniel Hegarty (15) and Seamus Bradley (19) murdered by British Troops during Operation Motorman on July 31st 1972.” Both teens were from Creggan. It is alleged that IRA volunteer Bradley was taken away and tortured after being shot; calls for an inquiry continue (Derry Journal | Pensive Quill).
Bligh’s Lane, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01603
Saoırse
“Saoırse [freedom] – Free the prisoners” (somewhere on) Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01618
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