Volunteer aiming an armalite, on Bishop Street, Derry. Vandalised with “SAS Rule”.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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Resistance/SAS Rule
physical force
Laoch Cróga Dhoıre
“Patsaí O’Heara, laoch cróga Dhoıre, a fuaır bás ar son na hÉıreann.” “Patsy O’Hara, Derry’s brave warrior/hero, who died on behalf of Ireland.” Graffiti in Bishop Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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Derry Brigade
“Derry Brigade. Provisional Irish Republican Army – Óglaıgh Na h-Éıreann” with an armalite and Irish Tricolour. Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
M00241
Provos Are Still Magic
Graffiti in Stanley’s Walk, Derry. Also visible “18 at Warrenpoint”, “Boom go’s Mountbatten”, and “Victory to IRA”.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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Fıanna Éıreann
A volunteer in balaclava and beret with his hands in the pockets of his bomber jacket, against a sunburst.
Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1983 Peter Moloney
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R.I.P.
A Latin cross, rather than a Cetlic cross, flies two tricolours in honour of the ten deceased hunger strikers: Bobby Sands “M.P.”, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty “T.D.”, Tom McElwee, and Michael Devine. Park Avenue, Derry
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Copyright © 1983 Peter Moloney
M00229
Let Us Rise
Here is a 1982 image of the 1981 Connolly mural on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast (aka RPG Avenue), showing some vandalism on the right-hand side.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
M00138
Meenan Square, 1982
“PIRA” and “Provos” graffiti on the left, with a Tricolour, and in the distance on the right, on the walls of the old town, “Vote Sinn Féin”.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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1916-1982/Break Thatcher’s Back
Here is a 1982 image of the Break Thatcher’s Back mural in Rockmore Road, Belfast, showing a blanket man with outstretched arms demanding “status now”, framed by a large “H” and surrounded by barbed wire, Tricolours, and the Starry Plough. In 1981, there was a Sean O’Casey quote on the left, rather than a lily and the year of the Easter Rising — 1916. “Free Belfast” in the top left.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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We Are Here To Stay
This mural celebrates the IRA (“Óglaigh Na hÉıreann” at the top) from 1919 (the army of the independent Dáıl Éıreann) to the “present” day of 1982. In the centre, a lark flies against a Tricolour, with the word “Saoırse” (“freedom”) beneath.
According to AP/RN of 1982-04-29, the (earlier) paint-bombing visible in the bottom image was the handiwork of “marauding Coldstream Guards”.
Islandbawn Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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