22,000 British soldiers were involved in retaking the “no-go” areas of Derry and Belfast in Operation Motorman, in July 1972. This is the seventh mural from the Bogside Artists in what would become The People’s Gallery. The plaque is from 2007.
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The seven signatories to the Proclamation of Irish Independence (not in order shown here) on a field of the flags of the four provinces: Thomas J. Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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A version of the Bobby Sands quote: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has their own particular role.”
Bishop Street, Derry
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Real IRA graffiti in Westland Street, Derry.
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“Still no surrender”, “No RUC”, and “We are 100% Irish”. Republican graffiti in Trench Road, Derry.
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Draft for a new version of the seven signatories of the Proclamation, replacing the previous version.
Bishop Street, Derry
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“No RUC” road sign in Lecky Road, Derry.
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The Real IRA was formed in 1997 when the Provisionals declared a (second) ceasefire. In 2001 it was waging campaigns in both England and Northern Ireland.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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Repainted version of Ban Plastic Bullets. At 25 metres long, the mural presents to scale the distances at which the fourteen victims (seven adults, seven children) of plastic bullets were shot. CAIN has a list of the fourteen.
“We recommend the abolition of the use of plastic bullets – United Nations Committee Against Torture, 28 November, 1998”; “A new more lethal plastic bullet will be issued to the RUC on June 1st – It will be [??] deadly at a range of 30 metres – All plastic bullet fatalities have occurred at a range of less than 30 metres.”
Divis Street, Belfast
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“Merry Christmas & a happy new year to the Castlerea Five from the people of Belfast.” The Castlerea Five were five republican prisoners not released in 2000 (under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement) (An Phoblacht). They were jailed in Roscommon for involvement in the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 (four of manslaughter, one of conspiracy to rob). Divis Street, Belfast
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