“Kill Taigs NF” (National Front). Graffiti in Hawkin Street, Londonderry. With “UVF”s in the background.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Kill Taigs NF
physical force
Paras Rule
Another (see “Paras 13 Bogside 0“) graffiti celebrating the deaths on Bloody Sunday in Wapping Lane, Derry.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Three Songs To The One Burden
The ten deceased hunger strikers are named, called “H-Block Martyrs”, and their entry into heaven requested: “St. Peter let these men into heaven, for they have served their time in hell” (for info, see I Refuse To Change) alongside a christian cross.
The lower part of the gate is the last stanza of a Yeats poem, Three Songs To The One Burden: “Some had no thought of vi[c]tory but had gone out to die, that Ireland mind be greater, her heart mount up on high; and yet who knows what[‘]s to come[?]”
This is a repainted and greatly changed version of Remember The Hunger Strikers in Westland Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Firing Party
A paint-bombed 1986 version of 1985’s Firing Party.
Chamberlain Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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The Final Salute
A paint-bombed and graffiti’ed 1986 version of 1981’s The Final Salute.
Rockville Street, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Venceremos
Here is a badly damaged, latter-day version of a mural we first saw in 1981: Venceremos.
Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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UVF Warning
UVF warning in the style of a cigarette packet: “Joining the RUC can damage your health”. Also “NF”. Pine Street, Londonderry.
For a similar republican graffito, see IRA Health Warning. For the murals on the far right, see King Billy/UDA.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Armed Struggle
A volunteer with rocket-propelled grenade launcher on “RPG Avenue” (Beechmount Avenue), west Belfast. “Revolution – Armed struggle, people’s politics”.
According to Rolston (1991 p. 100), the silhouettes of at the bottom are based on the movie poster for Reds.
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I nDıl Cuımhne
An Easter lily representing republican dead, “I ndíl cuımhne” [I ndıl chuımhne] or “in fond memory”, (somewhere on the) Andersonstown Road
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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They Murder The People And Have No Shame
“1941 Auschwitz, Buchenwald; 1981 Long Kesh prisoner of war camp” – a repeatedly vandalised mural in Oakman Street, Belfast. Centrally pictured is the killing of Michael McCartan, shot by an RUC officer named McKeown (named on the right) while painting graffiti in south Belfast. For a detailed description see BritishArmyKillings. “20 years it’s still the same – they murder people and have no shame.”
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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