Republican graffiti on the walls of Derry just below the Army barracks at Bishop’s Gate.
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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Brits Out
graffiti/writing
Batman Kill 10
Republican graffiti on Lecky Road. Derry: “Batman kill 10 – we will be back (‘agian’?)”
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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RUC Bastards Out
Republican graffiti on the walls of Derry
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Paint-bombs on Free Derry Corner, Lecky Road, Derry. Compare with the pristine wall also from 1989.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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You Are Now In Free Strabane
We end the 1989 images from Ballycolman, Strabane, with this declaration of independence.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Take Up Their Guns
“IRA – The only tribute we can pay to fallen comrades is to take up their guns and continue the fight”. With a strange ?animal? in celtic design. Columban Park, Strabane
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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SAM 7 Avenue
In 1987, 20 surface-to-air missiles missiles were part of the shipment confiscated from the trawler Eksund. In 1988, it was reported that a shipment of arms from Libya to the IRA included such missiles. Springhill Park or Ballycolman, Strabane. Next to Onwards To Victory.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner, 1989 or 1990. Lecky Road, Derry. It’s not clear whether this is before or after the paint-bombed wall also from 1989. Perhaps after, given that the graffiti on the block to the right has been blacked out.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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Yukon St Say’s No
Both “Yukon St says no” and “Ulster says no” (to the Anglo-Irish Agreement). UDA/UDF graffiti in Yukon Street, Belfast, with a Protestant Boys Flute Band mural featuring the flags of Britain, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.
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The Cursed Alien Laws
A line from Tone Is Coming Back Again, painted in Twinbrook in 1981: “Too long we’ve borne, with smouldering wrath, the cursed alien laws.” Tone’s profile is drawn on the tricolour in the middle.
unknown street (Twinbook), Belfast.
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Copyright © 1988 Alan Gallery, All rights reserved
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