The fight for political status by the ten 1981 hunger-strikers in the H-Blocks (plus Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg from the 70s) is linked to the status of republican prisoners in Maghaberry in 2001. A volunteer in funereal clothing, including an Easter lily on his beret, is at the centre. Camlough Road/Carnagat Road, Newry, stronghold of PIRA S. Down, Armagh Brigade.
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Graffiti in support of republican prisoners in Maghaberry. Central Drive, Derry. The Irish Times profiled the prison in 2017.
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Real IRA graffiti in Rossville Street, Derry.
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An early IRPWA [Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association] flag, a Tricolour with a gunman and fists in manacles, demanding “political status now!” in Lecky Road, Derry.
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This mural is popularly known as ‘Saturday Matinee’ because young people in Derry would spend Saturdays (and many other days) rioting against the British Army, which had been deployed in August 1969 after the Battle Of The Bogside. The official title is The Rioter and it is the eighth mural from the Bogside Artists in The People’s Gallery. The original photograph on which the mural is based is by Clive Limpkin.
Replaces Nothing Has Changed.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Shields of three of the four provinces on light poles in Westland Street, Derry, augmented with “RIRA”, “Celtic”, “RIP Bobby Sands” and Tricolours and Sunburst.
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This graffiti might be from the period of the ceasefires or from after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and its implementation, when the IRA moved toward decommissioning its weapons, beginning to do so in October 2001. Racecourse Road, Derry
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The Housing Executive/European Regional Development Fund plaque is presumably not for this “road sign” of the celebrating sniper! See previously: Free Derry Corner 1996 | The Boys Are Back.
Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry
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The “P” make it clear that it’s the Provisionals who are being criticised for surrendering.
Eastway, Derry
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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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