Here are later-in-the-year images of the murals in The Fountain, Londonderry – the building (which would later become the Cathedral Youth Club) is showing some wear and tear. See previously in 1986 The Fountain and for the murals in progress in 1985.
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The Fountain, Londonderry.
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The ten deceased hunger strikers are named, called “H-Block Martyrs”, and their entry into heaven requested: “St. Peter let these men into heaven, for they have served their time in hell” (for info, see I Refuse To Change) alongside a christian cross.
The lower part of the gate is the last stanza of a Yeats poem, Three Songs To The One Burden: “Some had no thought of vi[c]tory but had gone out to die, that Ireland mind be greater, her heart mount up on high; and yet who knows what[‘]s to come[?]”
This is a repainted and greatly changed version of Remember The Hunger Strikers in Westland Street, Derry.
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Here is a paint-bombed 1986 version of the H-Block virgin Mary mural in Rockmount Street, Belfast. For the mural in original (1981) condition, see Blessed Are Those Who Hunger For Justice.
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Wide shot and various close-ups of the boards (seen in progress in 1985) on what would become the youth centre in The Fountain, London-/Derry.
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James Connolly House in Chamberlain Street, Derry. For an image of the street in better days – the office was opened in 1977 – see this Norte De Irlanda blog post.
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Two pieces of graffiti from Divis Flats on the subject of the Queen of England. The second image shows “Save the queen” and “Fuck the queen” in competition beneath a ‘keep out’ sign Here is an entry in Hansard from July 1986 concerning the demolition of the Pound Block, stating that the demolition will begin “shortly”.
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Banner on a block of flats above the painted kerb-stones in Kennedy Place/The Fountain, Derry. With an Ulster banner to the left.
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Free Derry Corner in 1986, with a burning vehicle outside the Bogside Inn.
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Two similar graffiti from Central Drive, Creggan, Derry: “Ulster says No but … the man from Del Monte says Yes/the queen says Yes.” Also, “The last supper Newry”?
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