The red star and the hammer-and-sickle make an appearance alongside the Tricolour, Starry Plough, a fist grasping barbed wire, and the names of four hunger-strikers: B. Sands, P. O’Hara, R. McCreesh, F. Hughes. Turf Lodge shops, Monagh Road/Monagh Gardens/Norglen Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00218
This is the oldest continuously maintained mural in Belfast. It was touched up in 1987 and 1990, and was repainted in 2013. It features a central phoenix and the shields of the four provinces, and two rhyming couplets: The people arose in 69/they will do it again at any time. Maggie Thatcher think again/don’t let our brave men die in vain.
Clowney Street, Beechmount, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00217
Martin Luther King in 1966 (in an interview on CBS) said “A riot is the language of the unheard” and in 1967 (in “Beyond Vietnam“) wrote “I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” Misquoted and taken out of context, his words are used approvingly in this INLA/IRA mural.
Gransha Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00216
This mural features an unusual representation of Ireland divided into its four provinces. Also seen: Irish Tricolour and Sunburst flags sticking out of the island and the lark in barbed wire. Clonard Street, Belfast
See also: The Lark And The Freedom Fighter
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00215
A phoenix rising from blue, green, and red flames, flanked by an AK-47(?) and an armalite and tricolours on halberds.
Lenadoon Walk, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00209
“Victory to the Armagh women” and “Provisional IRA” and an armalite. Rosnareen Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00201
A phoenix in the colours of the Irish tricolour.
Shaw’s Road, west Belfast.
With “INLA” on the shutters of the off-licence next door.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00200
The view from Top Of The Hill looking down over the old town and the bogside. The island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, “Smash H-Block”, “Political status now”.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00197
The previous street-level graffiti on Westland Street, Derry — for which see 1973’s PIRA Provos — is shown here being repainted with a series of three panels: a tricolour and starry plough, hands in chains, and H-block.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Sunburst and tricolour flags with a phoenix(?) rising out of the flames.
Trench Road, Gobnascale, Derry.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
M00183
Peter Moloney Collection 