Derry INLA volunteer Mickey Devine was the tenth and last of the 1981 hunger strikers to die, on August 20th. The board shown in this image is in Rathkeele Way, on the gable wall of the family home of his sister Margaret.
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The Palestinian flag flies above Free Derry Corner and is pained on a board, both in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Baord on the back of Free Derry Corner for the ninth annual Gasyard Wall Féıle (the first was in 1993).
Lecky Road, Derry
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“PSNI out”, “CRF” (Catholic Reaction Force) “RIRA” and “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) graffiti in (the old) Dove Gardens, Derry. A Celtic player (Henrik Larsson?) completes the scene.
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David Trimble (or John Hume?), George Mitchell? (wearing the British crown; J1506 suggests the SDLP’s Mark Durkan), and Ian Paisley are the puppets of the RUC (rebranded as the PSNI).
Fahan Street, Derry
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“Saoırse [freedom] – Free the prisoners” (somewhere on) Falls Road, Belfast.
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“Éıre Nua” was (and is) the name of a Sınn Féın plan (pdf | also a social and economic plan pdf) for a federal Ireland, with a semi-independent Ulster parliament; Republican Sınn Féın split off in 1986 and – like Na Fıanna Éıreann and Continuity IRA – still supports the vision outlined in it. Notable here is the inclusion of a (now-defunct) web address.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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Two armed and masked volunteers hold aloft an RPG, claiming “victory”, even though “our day” is still coming (tıocfaıdh ár lá). This is a crude version of the 1982 PLO -IRA mural in Belfast, but the direct ancestor of this board is the similar one – Victory – on Eastway, Derry, from 2000.
Please get in touch if you know what “BCRF” stands for. “CRF” (by itself) stands for “Catholic Reaction Force”. So, perhaps “Bogside Catholic reaction Force”? Or Bogside-Creggan Reaction Force”?
Fahan Street, Derry
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The siege of Derry lasted from December 1688 until July 1689, the “relief of Derry” coming with the “breaking of the boom” across the river Foyle by the ship Mountjoy.
Wapping Lane, Fountain, Londonderry
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Bobby Sands was IRA commanding officer in Long Kesh/Maze and lead 1981 hunger-striker, dying on May 5th, 1981.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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