IRA graffiti in Patterson’s Lane, Belfast city centre.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann
graffiti/writing
Welcome To Beirut
Here are four images of a variety of slogans on the Falls Road. The first lists various resistance groups from around the world: IRA, PLO, ETA, ANC. The second has a phone number for “SAS strippers” and something about “One Brit and his dog”. In the third and fourth: “Óglaıgh na hÉıreann”, “Provisional IRA”, “Tıocfaıdh ár lá”, “RUC black bastards”.
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Stop Extradition
Graffiti in Westland Street, Derry. Compare this scene – in 1988 – with the same view from 1973.
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The Bog
On the left of this image is the Óglaıgh na hÉıreann mural (seen previously in Guess Who). On the right, on the back of the traffic sign, is “The Bog” and “IRA”. Lecky Road, Derry
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Still Under Siege
“Londonderry Westbank loyalists – Still under siege, No Surrender.” A beefed-up successor to the writing from 1985: Londonderry Not Derry.
Kennedy Place, the Fountain, Derry.
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Victory To The IRA
Republican graffiti in Ferguson’s Street, Derry.
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Sınn Féın
The Sınn Féın lettering writ large in Creggan Heights, Derry (with the island of Ireland as a background, though this cannot be seen in the image above). The image below gives a much better sense of what the mural looked like under ordinary lighting.
See also All-Ireland Army, which was at the far end of this block of houses, at the junction with Linsfort Drive,
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Victory To The IRA 1916-87
The brightly-coloured couple in the Coke ad are a stark contrast to the graffiti scrawled below.
Lecky Road, Derry
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner (Visual History) in 1987.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Beware Of A Risen People
This slogan might date to well before this image was taken in 1987
It was still visible in Twinbrook’s Summerhill Road in 2022.
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