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A Pain In The Ash

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The Simpsons moved to prime-time from The Tracey Ullman Show and became a hit for Fox beginning in December 1989. By 1991, the family, and especially Bart Simpson, were famous enough to be used in the “Shantallow anti toxic waste campaign” against a DuPont “Toxic incinerator planned for Derry”: “Ban the burn – it’s a pain in the ash.” For a history of the campaign, see “A Burning Issue?” p. 7 ff.

Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry

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Save Dessie Ellis From British Justice

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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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Derry Volunteers Commemoration

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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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1916 Easter 1986

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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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