Board on the rear of Free Derry Corner from the Bogside And Brandywell Women’s Groups: “Zero tolerance to violence against women – there are no grey areas.” With some verses from Another Woman by Carol Geneya Kaplan.
Lecky Road, Derry
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A collage of image from the previous 30 years, including banging bin-lids on the ground, Maıréad Farrell in Armagh prison, men on the blanket, the cages of Long Kesh, marches in support of the hunger strikers, and reproductions of various posters, against Margaret Thatcher, plastic bullets, internment, and censorship. There’s a quote from Bob Dylan in the middle, “How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see – the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.”
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“No peace without justice”. Róısín McAliskey (daughter of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey) was arrested in 1996 in connection with a mortar attack on a British Army base in Germany and held in Holloway prison (London) until March 1998.
Ormeau Road, south Belfast
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The second mural by the Bogside Artists (after The Petrol Bomber) also depicts the battle of the bogside and features Bernadette Devlin (later McAliskey). Devlin was elected to the British parliament in 1969 at age 21 and was imprisoned in December for her role in the August uprising. The mural shows Devlin with a megaphone in front of protesters and Free Derry Corner. It replaces another ‘Battle of the Bogside’ mural. The Bogside Artists explain the mural and its history in this short video.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Job-seekers office named after (former) local resident Constance Markievicz in Union Street, Sligo. Now the “Intreo” unemployment centre.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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The practice of republican women banging binlids to alert the community to the presence of British soldiers is remembered in this Westland Street, Derry, mural. The celebration is to take place in Belfast on Sunday 11th; the only Sunday the 11th in 1991 was in August; the side-wall was then changed for a another march the following Sunday.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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Women of the world stand up against oppression, with the symbol for ‘female’ containing a globe. On the Falls Road/Linden Street.
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“Support Dessie Ellis” and “Ask about Dessie Ellis – No extradition” graffiti in Westland Street, Derry, at the centre of the stencils seen in Dionysia.
For basic info on Ellis, see Don’t Hand Him Over.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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Nancy Spero’s Notes In Time Part II comprises stencils of women from the troubles alongside poems such as Linda Anderson’s Gang-Bang, Ulster Style (about the murder of Ann Ogilby in 1974), and Roisin Cowman’s Dionysia. For history and discussion of the piece, see McGee (1993), Impact And The Visual Arts – Derry 1992 at NCAD.
For a wide shot, see Support Dessie Ellis.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry.
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Women from around the world, including Palestine, are represented in this mural in Unity flats, Belfast. Here’s Christy Moore’s recording of the Michael MacConnell song Only Our Rivers Run Free.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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