Mirror-image volunteers fire over a Celtic cross with wreath and republican flags. This mural was perhaps left incomplete, and perhaps because of the ceasefire.
Drumleck Drive, Derry
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Controversial DUP and later independent politician and preacher George Seawright served as city councillor and NI Assembly member from 1981 to 1986, when he was jailed for his role in physically attacking NI Secretary of State Tom King. He was “murdered by the enemies of Ulster [the IPLO] Nov 1987”. “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life – Revelation 2 v10.”
The side-wall was later painted – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
Percy Place, west Belfast
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Red Hand Commando volunteer Stevie McCrea was “murdered by the enemies of Ulster” on February 18th, 1989. An-RHC-modified UVF flag is on the left-hand side.
Broadway/Frenchpark Street, Village, south Belfast – for the large gable wall, see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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An unusual line drawing mural, in cartoon style, of the UVF emblem (with blood dripping from the red hand) along with UVF flag and Ulster banner. Sandy Row, Belfast.
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A kids mural with a message of economic justice: while the kids on the right play with the animals and go swimming, the adults work at “Fair Pay Factory” and enter through a door marked “Isteach”.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Five small murals pretending to be photographs in an album. A child holds a board, two men in coats stand talking, girls’ faces, two boys play chasies around the Bloody Sunday Memorial, a show of hands.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Lecky Road in the black-and-white of previous years, with children playing handball against the “Free Derry” wall and swinging from a lamp-pole, side-by-side with a colourful Lecky Road of the present, where they play soccer and sit at computers.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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A silhouetted volunteer with rifle kneels on a tricolour, with Pearse’s “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” in one third.
“Painted by the Falls Republican Youth.”
Beechmount Parade, west Belfast
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12 deceased hunger strikers are named on either side of a celtic cross in tricoloured panels, with a stylised bird flying in front. Two masked volunteers stand to attention.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
Bobby Sands Francis Hughes Patsy O’Hara Ray McCreesh Joe McDonnell Martin Hurson Kevin Lynch Kieran Doherty Tom McIlwee [McElwee] Michael Devine Michael Gaughan Frank Stagg
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“The weaponry has changed …” from the rifles used by James Connolly’s ICA of 1916 to the AK-47 of the Bobby Sands-inspired IRA of 1991, “… but the cause stays the same.” Both weapons are crossed with the pike of Emmet’s 1798 against a Tricolour. Also present are a hat (see History Ireland) and a beret.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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Peter Moloney Collection 