“Honour Ireland’s dead – wear an easter lily”, with a realistic lily on the left and a stylised one on the right.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Wear An Easter Lily
physical force
Tıocfaıdh Ár Malite
The republican slogan “Tıocfaıdh ár lá” (“our day will come”) fashioned into the shape of an armalite rifle.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Out Of The Ashes Arose The Provisionals
A phoenix in the colours of the Irish tricolour.
Ballycolman estate, Strabane
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INLA
A raised fist holding an assault rifle on the red star of socialism. Ballycolman estate, Strabane. “BRSY” = “Ballycolman republican socialist youth.”
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Onwards To Victory
A volunteer with a suface-to-air missile (see SAM 7 Avenue, which is just out of shot to the right) with a quote from Sınn Féın and Cumann Na mBan leader Máıre Drumm: “We must take no steps backwards. All our steps must be onwards to victory!” Ballycolman, Strabane.
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We Salute
“North West Roll Of Honour INLA”. Seven volunteers – and one empty spot – are listed in this Ballycolman mural: Neil McMonagle, Colm McNull, Pierce Moore, Patsy O’Hara, Kevin Lynch, Micky Devine, James McPhilemy. Featuring the red star of socialism and the Starry Plough of the INLA. Painted by “BRSY” Ballycolman Republican Socialist Youth.
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Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann
Crossed armalites beneath a celtic circle-and-triangle. Ballycolman, Strabane
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Revolution Socialism
IRSP/INLA mural in Ballycolman estate, Strabane, featuring a tricoloured phoenix with wings spread below two volunteers with rifles crossed. Also the red star of socialism and four empty shields, presumably where the four provinces might have gone.
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Take Up Their Guns
“IRA – The only tribute we can pay to fallen comrades is to take up their guns and continue the fight”. With a strange ?animal? in celtic design. Columban Park, Strabane
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Seize Power
“The best way for the people not to be prisoners is for the people to seize power.” The words of Father Camilo Torres, a Colombian socialist and Catholic priest, next to a pair of arms wrapped in barbed wire and an Irish tricolour, in Springhill Park, Strabane.
Jack Clafferty of Troops Out is the originator of the barbed-wired-bound fists.
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