“PIRA” and “Provos” graffiti on the left, with a Tricolour, and in the distance on the right, on the walls of the old town, “Vote Sinn Féin”.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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14 victims of Bloody Sunday (30th Jan 1972) are listed on either side of a cross: P. Doherty G. Donaghy, J. Duddy, H. Gilmore, M. Kelly, M. McDaid, K. McElhinney, B. McGuigan, J. McKinney, W. Nash, J. Wray, J. Young, J. Johnson, W. McKinney.
Rossville Street, Derry
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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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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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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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“Dont let them die” with an Irish tricolour and “IRA”. On Central Drive, Derry and next to The Conveyor Belt.
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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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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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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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A first clenched in resistance. “RUC thugs keeps [out]”, “Provos rule”.
Abercorn Road, Derry
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