“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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“Provos” and “victory to the hunger strikers” next to a circus mural at the rear of Rossville flats, with clowns, a monkey riding a bike, a strong man, people riding horses, a lion-tamer, and a juggler. It was painted by Joe Coyle, Noel Millar, Margo Harkin, and Tim Webster, with financial support from the Department Of Manpower Services (Watson in Circa 8.3, 1983). An anonymous painter is quoted of p.8 of Woods’s Seeing Is Believing? as saying: “The people felt absolutely no connection with it – it has to involve you or it just doesn’t mean anything.”
Chamberlain Street, Derry
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“Political status for the men in H.Block and the women in Armagh”, “Victory to the Provos” – graffiti in Beechwood Avenue, Derry.
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“They die, you die – Brit Govt”. Above are posters of hunger strikers, some marked with dates of death. From right to left, smaller posters show Sands, Hughes, McCreesh, and O’Hara. From left to right, the larger posters show [McDonnell out of frame?], Doherty, Lynch (both marked as deceased), McElwee, Quinn, Devine, McKeown, McGeown, Devlin.
If the posters are an accurate guide, the date is somewhere between August 2nd and 8th, the dates on which Doherty and McElwee died. Liam McCloskey would join the strike on August 3rd.
The dentist’s office round the corner from Ballymurphy shops, Belfast.
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“Keep RUC out”, “INLA”, “IRSP”, “IRA”, “UTP”. somewhere in Turf Lodge, Belfast
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“13 Gone [Bloody Sunday, January 1972] But Not For Gotten. We got 18 and Mountbatten” [Warrenpoint and Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, both on 27 August, 1979], “IRA”, “UTP” and an armalite
Falls Road Library, Sevastopol Street, Belfast
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The saying comes from Mao Zedong and appears in the Little Red Book (WP).
“T” block in Turf Lodge, west Belfast
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Graffiti on the Falls library, Falls Road, west Belfast.
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Also “Wanted: For murder and torture of Irish prisoners” posters of Margaret Thatcher.
Falls Road (between Lower Clonard Street and Waterford Street; next to Harden’s shop), west Belfast.
Later the site of a mural – T00043.
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“God made the Catholics and the armalite made us equal”, “H-Block”, “IRA”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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