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Derry Supports The Garvaghy Road Residents

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Day 371 of the “siege” of the residents of Garvaghy Road, Portadown. The siege began when the newly-formed Parades Commission decided to ban the Orange march in 1998 and 2,000 police and soldiers enforced the ruling by barricading the road off. Rossville Street, Derry, with Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber in the background.

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Copyright © 1999 Peter Moloney
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YCV – UVF – RHC

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Here is a trio of loyalist boards in Dennet Gardens, Londonderry with the insignia of the Young Citizen Volunteers, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Commandos. The design of a garland of flowers containing a regimental insignia dates to the Ulster Volunteers of 1912; the masked volunteers standing to attention do not.

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Ten Hunger Strikers

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The lower part of the long wall in Bishop Street, Derry, in 1988. From left to right: a funeral volley fired over a scroll (blank in the first shot, filled-in in the fifth; Cú Chulaınn dying; portraits of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers; Bobby Sands’s “spirit of freedom” quote (shown in the final image) which concludes “I remain what I am – a political prisoner of war”; a celtic cross; “Free All POWs” (similar image to Racecourse Road); and a lark in barbed wire over a Tricolour.

For the inclusion of Cú Chulaınn in this mural, see the Visual History page.

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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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