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Unfinished Revolution

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There are currently three uses of the “Unfinished revolution, unfinished business” slogan in Derry.

First, a new mural is currently in progress in Creggan. On the right, a soldier raises the Irish Tricolour while trampling on Britain’s Union Flag and the “unfinished revolution” of 1916’s Easter Rising (reproducing a postcard of the era). The modern-day figure on the left is wielding a home-made rocket-launcher used in a 2014 attack on police. It also appears in the board immediately above, and in 2015’s Resistance in Ardoyne, north Belfast.

(The finished piece can be seen in the Seosamh Mac Coılle collection, with verbiage above and below reading, “Unfinished revolution, unfinished business” and “Resistance!”)

Central Drive, Eastway, and Westland Street, Derry.

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End The Torture

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“End the torture in Maghaberry now!! Join IRPWA http://www.irpwa.com [irpwa.irish]” and “End internment and Britain’s torture of Irish POWs”.

Similar sentiments from the IRPWA/New IRA in Lecky Road (replacing Taobh An Bhogaıgh) and the RNU/ÓNH in Westland Street (which was previously on the rear of Free Derry Corner).

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Civil Rights

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Paddy McAteer, Vinny Coyle, Ivan Cooper and John Hume.

October 7th:

The Bogside Artists’ Civil Rights mural in Rossville Street, Derry, which was originally painted in 2004, has been repainted (in October 2015 (BBC)) and the portraits of Ivan Cooper and John Hume added.

See also the Visual History page on the Bogside Artists.

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Refugees Welcome

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The wave of people seeking asylum from political strife in Europe continues.”Fáılte romhaıbh a chaırde” is Irish for “Welcome, friends” while “Qaxootiga soo Dhaweyn” is Somali for “Refugees welcome”. Somalis make up about 9% of the current wave of migrants from Africa and Syrians 33% (Irish Times). 2,000 refugees are to be settled in Northern Ireland (belfastlive). The yellow-on-black outline of parents and daughter running originates in the United States, used on ‘caution’ signs along highways near the US-Mexico border. 

The mural was launched on September 12th.

Northumberland Street, west Belfast

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Reclaim The Republic

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The masthead of the 1916 proclamation declaring a “Provisional Government of the Irish Republic” to the “People of Ireland” is faithfully reproduced in this éırígí stencil, along with busts of Padraıg Pearse and Tom Clarke.

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Always Remembered

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UFF/UDA/UYM (North Down, 2nd battalion, D company) memorial mural in Bloomfield estate, Bangor, to Andrew McIlvenny and Roy Officer, with hooded gunmen on a bed of poppies flanking the UFF clenched fist.

The estate is also home to UVF murals, e.g. We Band Of Brothers.

Ballyree Drive, Bangor

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