The people break out of a barracks and become a tree. “Vote Sınn Féın.”
Back of Free Derry Corner (Visual History)
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Building For The Future
painted board
Free The Derry 3
“Free the Derry 3” – board and graffiti in Rossville Street, Derry. Please get in touch if you know who the 1994 Derry 3 (not the 2016 Derry 3) were.
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End Collusion/Peace Initiative
Banners and boards above the Sınn Féın/Sıopa Na hEalaıne on the Falls Road, Belfast: “End Collusion” (with the same shirt-cuffs as in End British Collusion), “Support the Hume/Adams peace initiative (see also Hume-Adams in Derry), 25 Years – Time For Peace – Time To Go (also in Dunville Road and in Derry)
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Ancient & Christian Ireland
A large board on the old Top Of The Hill community centre, Gobnascale, Derry, showing a prancing stallion in front of a (neolithic) dolmen and (mediaeval) round tower (perhaps the missing tower where Long Tower now stands).
There is a thought that “Gobnascale” is Irish for “field of the stallion” (McLaughlin 1999).
Also on the community centre (in 1981): A Political Prisoner Of War.
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Addressing The Flag
Republican volunteer with gun lowered in front of a Tricolour.
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Slán Abhaıle
British army soldiers on the road to London under an Irish-language party banner with tricoloured balloons. “Time for peace – time to go.”
Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry
The image was also produced in the Short Strand (east Belfast), in Ardoyne (north Belfast), above the Sınn Féın offices/Sıopa Na hEalaíne (west Belfast), on Free Derry Corner, and in Letterkenny.
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Hume Adams – The Real Initiative
John Hume and Gerry Adams met throughout 1993, agreeing on an “initiative” in September. Talks continued between Sinn Féin and the British government until August 1994, with the first IRA ceasefire coming on the 31st of that month. Central Drive, Derry.
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Battle Of The Bogside
A rioter throws a Molotov cocktail. Small board on Strabane Old Road in Derry for the 15th anniversary of the Battle of the Bogside.
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Copyright © 1994 Peter Moloney
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Send The Rich Away
“My [republican prisoner] son will pull rulers down from their thrones, inspire the poor, feed the hungry, and send the rich away – Luke 1”. An army helicopter flying in a starry plough sky shines down its light on the three wise men of the European Economic Community (EEC), Catholic church, and Sky broadcasting.
Lecky Road, Derry, on the back of Free Derry Corner (Visual History)
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The Day Innocence Died
Portraits of the 14 Bloody Sunday victims on small boards in Westland Street, Derry. From Bloody Sunday Memorial, their names were Patrick J. Doherty (aged 31 years), Gerard V. Donaghey (17), John F. Duddy (17), Hugh P. Gilmour (17), Michael G. Kelly (17), Michael M. McDaid (20), Kevin G. McElhinney (17), Bernard McGuigan (41), James G. McKinney (27), William N. Nash (19), James J. Wray (22), John P. Young (17), and John Johnston (59).
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Peter Moloney Collection 