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It’s Derry Not Londonderry

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Here is another image in connection with the refusal of the SDLP to support an Irish Independence Party motion to change the name of the city to Derry: “It’s Derry not Londonderry” painted on the back of Free Derry Corner.

Rossville Street, Derry.

See previously: Stoop Down Low Party | Do You Live in Londonderry? | Derry Not Londonderry | Vote SDLP For A Better Londonderry

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Derry Not Londonderry

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The busts of the ten dead hunger strikers are shown on a background of Starry Plough and Irish Tricolout flags, alongside a piece of graffiti reading “Derry not Londonderry.” The Fianna Eireann board was previously featured separately in 1983. Rossville Street, Derry.

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Paddy We Remember

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Three images of graffiti along Rossville Street, Derry. “Charles” is Charles, Prince of Wales and Colonel-in-Chief of the parachute regiment, who visited the city in July 1994. “Paddy” is civil rights activist Paddy Bogside (Paddy Doherty) who walked the Prince around the craft village (perhaps because of their shared interest in urban regeneration and restoration).

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1916-1982/Break Thatcher’s Back

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Here is a 1982 image of the Break Thatcher’s Back mural in Rockmore Road, Belfast, showing a blanket man with outstretched arms demanding “status now”, framed by a large “H” and surrounded by barbed wire, Tricolours, and the Starry Plough. In 1981, there was a Sean O’Casey quote on the left, rather than a lily and the year of the Easter Rising — 1916. “Free Belfast” in the top left.

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