Three of the deceased hunger strikers’ portraits – of Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, and Joe McDonnell – on Strabane Old Road, Derry, seen previously in 1982’s Don’t Let Them Die.
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Derry’s Rossville flats were constructed in 1966 and knocked down in 1986 and 1989 (Derry Journal). Their demolition is turned into a public art piece on a large board between a set of goalposts in Fahan Street (above) and seen also from Butcher Street (below).
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The Union Flag forms a noose around the neck of Dessie Ellis, shown here as being on “hunger-strike day 13” (he would eventually go 35 days before being extradited from the Republic to Britain). See also Support Dessie Ellis and Don’t Hand Him Over.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Joe Coyle, Tommy McCool (and two of his children) and Tommy Carlin died as a result of a premature explosion in the McCool family kitchen. Coyle and McCool died on June 27th; Carlin succumbed to his injuries on July 8th, 1970.
The board shown, announcing a march on Sunday 24th (June) 1990, is on the rear of Free Derry Corner, (Visual History), Lecky Road, Derry.
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Here is the top half of a mural in Berwick Road/Paráid An Ardghleanna. The board at the top reproduces a 1972 postcard entitled Easter with two women – on the left a young woman (Ireland in flames, perhaps suggesting the Rising) and on the right, an old woman (Mother Ireland?) – watching over a prisoner by the light from a prison window. (Image #39 in Belinda Loftus’s 1982 dissertation Images In Conflict.)
The bottom (with quotes from Connolly and Pearse) was seen in the 1989 image An Attitude Of Revolt.
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A board on the back of Free Derry Corner announces a joint rally for Bloody Sunday and for the release of the Birmingham Six.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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A call to march on the rear of Free Derry Corner, with police and army firing plastic bullets. Lecky Road, Derry.
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The Siege of Derry as seen from the point of view of the besiegers – the (French) army of James II.
Kennedy Place, the Fountain, Londonderry
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From inside the Felons Club in Andersonstown, Belfast: a version of Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic above the famous quote from Pearse’s O’Donovan Rossa oration – “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” — along with portraits of hunger strikers.
For a history of the club in its previous locations, see this Danny Morrison remembrance.
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The West Belfast Ulster Special Service Force (USSF) was a local Shankill unit within the West Belfast regiment of the Ulster Volunteers. It lost 90% of its men at the battle of Albert on July 1st, 1916. For more of its history see BygoneDays.
Craven Street, lower Shankill, west Belfast
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