“Solidarity between women in armed struggle” across the world: female members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Cumann Na mBan, and the Southwest African People’s Organisation (from Namibia) drawn within the symbol for woman (also the planet Venus in astrology). The mural (or perhaps the wall) was “Improved by Sınn Féın Youth” and on the side-wall: “Cowardly loyalists backout”. Falls Road, Belfast
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An armed volunteer against the backdrop of an undivided island of Ireland. Linsfort Drive, Derry. See also Sinn Féin, at the other end of this row of houses on Creggan Heights (but is dated 1987).
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A pair of crouched volunteers with weapons aimed below stylised block writing. Pearse’s “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (and a dog) take centre stage. Properly, with fadas, “Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann”. Central Drive, Derry.
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These two murals — one about censorship (“Many have eyes but cannot see?”) and one about the death by platic bullet of Sean Downes (“Sean Downes RIP — Who Next” see this NYTimes article for a description) — are adjacent to one another in Blucher Street, Derry. “Many Have Eyes” is based on a poster from the May 1968 Paris Uprising, “Information Libre” (below).
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“We the people fully support the hunger strikers on whatever action they take “themselves”.” With Irish Tricolours and “IRA”, “Provos”, and “INLA”.
For the gate to the left, see Remember The Hunger Strikers.
Blucher Street, Derry
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“There is an inner thing in every man. Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, and will do so till the end.” From The Rhythm Of Time by “Vol. Bobby Sands.”
Blucher Street, Derry.
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A line from Padraig Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa: “The fools, the the fools, they [have] left us our fenian dead. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
Fahan Street, Derry
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“If your [you’re] feeling young and active, there’s lots of action around. Come and join the … … Cuman[n] na gCailini [gCailíní], and help overthrown the crown.”
Fahan Street, Derry
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On the walls of the old Derry city, at Waterloo Street: “Smash H Block” and “UTP”.
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Here are five images of the Bogside shops at the junction of Westland Street and Lecky Road, with a large Óglaıgh na hÉıreann mural, which was later vandalised with “Guess who” and graffiti added to the right reading “B Specials Irish League: Newry 9, RUC 0”.
Bogside, Derry
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