Sınn Féın advice centre on Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry, with a tricolour flying outside and “RUC bastards” and “Provos” graffitied on the walls.
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Sınn Féın Advice Centre
graffiti/writing
And The Armalite Made Us Equal
Two images from 1982 of the graffiti in the previous post (from 1981): “God made the Catholics and the Armalite made us equal”.
On the lower wall, next to Rossville flats, are various graffiti: FTQ”, “IRA”, (possibly re-purposed from “FTOIRA”?), “UTP”, “INLA”, “Bobby Sands MP”
Fahan Street/Nailor’s Row, Bogside, Derry
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Viva Argentina Ole!
The war over the Falkland/Malvinas islands lasted ten weeks from April to June, 1982. Sympathies in the Bogside lay with the Argentinians. “Britan[n]ia rules the waves no more”, “Join Na Fıanna Eıreann now” and one other indecipherable slogan. Rossville Street, Derry
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Don’t Let Them Die
“Dont let them die” with an Irish tricolour and “IRA”. On Central Drive, Derry and next to The Conveyor Belt.
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Armalite
An armalite on the corner of Falls Road library in Sevastopol Street, Belfast (and visible at the edge of 13 Gone But Not Forgotten) points at a saracen (or Humber Pig) parked on the pavement. “Provos” graffiti is on the abandoned houses on the Falls Road.
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Support The Prisoners And Their 5 Demands
The Falls Road, Belfast, just below Dunlewey Street, is scarred from a burnt-out vehicle and on the walls of Adoration Convent: Support The Prisoners And Their 5 Demands.
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Éıre
The view from Top Of The Hill looking down over the old town and the bogside. The island of Ireland in green, white, and orange, “Smash H-Block”, “Political status now”.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Political Status Now
A first clenched in resistance. “RUC thugs keeps [out]”, “Provos rule”.
Abercorn Road, Derry
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Day 61
The counter for the 1981 hunger strike reaches 61.
Rossville Street/William Street, Derry
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner with the slogan in bold lettering and the fencing removed.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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