Here are two images of a variety of small boards in Gardenmore Road/Laburnum Way, Twinbrook, including three about the RUC, a tricoloured H-shaped board with ten crosses, and a portrait of Bobby Sands who lived in the building that the boards are on. (The portrait and the items in the second image date back to at least 1996. See C01012 and C01007.)
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Here are two images from Twinbrook Road, Belfast, one of a hunger strike 20th anniversary board with portraits of the ten deceased men and a lark carrying keys in a circle of barbed wire and the other showing “IRA” in green, white, and orange letters.
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Here is a 2002 image of the colourful Bobby Sands mural Sevastopol Street, Belfast. For lots more info, see the original post on this mural.
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A portrait of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands with a slightly grimacing smile.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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The Palestinian flag flies above Free Derry Corner and is pained on a board, both in Lecky Road, Derry.
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The emblem of Bloody Sunday (in Irish “Domhnach Na Fola”) is a Celtic-style dove (perhaps the NICRA dove) with an oak leaf (representing the city). The earliest presentation in the Collection is five years earlier than this image, from the 25th anniversary.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Two recent deaths are commemorated with stones placed next to Free Derry Corner in Lecky Road.
Barney McFadden was a Derry IRA and Sınn Féın activist and councillor, interned during the 70s and noted in later years for opposing criminal actions by republicans (Irish Times). He was described by Martin McGuinness at the funeral as “a colossus of the struggle” (An Phoblacht). In this video, he shares his memories of the Derry Gasyard.
John “Caker” Casey (1946-2000) painted the slogan “You are now entering Free Derry” in block lettering on the gable wall of 33 Lecky Road in August 1969, for the visit of Home Secretary Jim Callaghan. (The original graffiti version was done by Liam Hillen in January.)
For a history of Free Derry Corner, see its Visual History page.
Lecky Road, Bogsde, Derry
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Bobby Sands was IRA commanding officer in Long Kesh/Maze and lead 1981 hunger-striker, dying on May 5th, 1981.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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The 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes are both commemorated in this black flag with the lark in barbed wire representing the “Spirit of freedom”.
Falls Road, Belfast
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Hunger strikers Patsy O’Hara and Raymond McCreesh died on the same day – May 21st, 1981. There are thus two portraits placed next to the memorial in Rossville Street, Derry, on this day each year.
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