Here are four images of the completed ‘Incident At Narrow Water’ mural shown in-progress in a separate post.
For interpretation of the piece, see Visual History 4 – Paramilitary Murals (1981-1982).
Rockville Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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Here are three images of a Rockville Street (CNR west Belfast) mural being painted in 1981, depicting (one part of) the IRA’s 1979 ambush of the British Army at Narrow Water Castle, near Warrenpoint (WP), on the same day that Louis Mountbatten was killed (see previously: 13 Gone But Not Forgotten).
Images of the completed mural are in a separate entry.
For interpretation of the piece, see Visual History 4 – Paramilitary Murals (1981-1982).
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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A poster showing an armed republican volunteer against the background of an Irish tricolour attached to a poleaxe (pike) is reproduced in Rockdale Street, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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The first names of six hunger-strikers — Bobby, Francis, Patsy, Raymond, Joe, Martin — on a ribbon held by a tricoloured phoenix against a sunburst, flanked by Starry Plough and Tricolour and volunteers firing a final salute. The ribbon would be expanded to include the first names of all ten 1981 hunger strikers – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
Painted by Con in Rockdale Street, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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“Venceremos” is a Spanish Civil War slogan meaning “we will win (or: overcome)”, here alongside Irish revolutionaries armed with rifles and machine guns against a background of tricolour and sunburst.
Slemish Way/Andersonstown Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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“Victory [to the] IRA”. Volunteers with RPGs and armalites on Shaws Road, Belfast, kneeling over an outline of Ireland in green, white, and gold. The original (unattributed) photograph is below.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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“We must grow tough, but without ever losing our tenderness.” Three female activists, one with a rifle, proclaim “Resistance” on the Falls Road, Belfast “painted by Sınn Féın Youth”. The phrase is attributed to Che Guevara. Rolston (1991 p. 94) claims this mural was done for International Women’s Day 1982 (March 6th). An in-progress image can be seen in the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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A first clenched in resistance. “RUC thugs keeps [out]”, “Provos rule”.
Abercorn Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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“Hands off Ireland, bitch”, with a line drawing of Margaret Thatcher; “No, not a dog, but a political prisoner” with a prisoner on all fours. Also a harp in green, white, and gold, and a phoenix with Tricolours, and a hand clasping a dagger.
Rosnareen Park, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 LC
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“RUC keep out”, “Patsy O’Hara”, “IRA”, “Political status must stay” on flats in Glenfada Park, opposite the Rossville flats in Derry’s Bogside. Here is a guide to the row of murals along the bottom of Rossville flats. A close-up of the left-hand side of the image above is included below.
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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