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This 1990 image of the Vol. Joe Doherty mural on the New Lodge Road (by Mo Chara and “New Lodge Republican Youth”), Belfast includes the message on the side-wall comparing the revolution in Ireland to the revolution in the United States: “Would the US Att. General Edwin Meese have deported George Washington? Don’t handover Joe Doherty to British warlords!”

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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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Shantallow Youth Demand A Real Future

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Instead of Sky News and the Sun newspaper (panel 1) and an environment of “unemployment, emigration, boredom, YTP [youth training programmes]” (panel 2), Shantallow youth want a future of “Saoırse, dignity, peace, democracy, justice, freedom” (panel 3). The figures are in the colours of the Irish Tricolour and a sunburst forms a backdrop. Moyola Drive, Derry

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Valuing Freedom More Than Life

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Anyone know these artists? A mural in progress in Drumleck Gardens, Derry. Bobby Sands’s use of the lark as the “spirit of freedom” is combined with a James Connolly quote: “There is no power on Earth [or: There is no outside force] capable of enforcing slavery on a people really resolved to be free, [and] valuing freedom more than life.”

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The Cutting Edge

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Five in a row in Moyola Drive, Derry: Briogáid Doire with crossed rifles and oak leaves; [a Tricolour – no separate image]; “the cutting edge” weaponry; a Sunburst; and, a celtic cross flying Starry Plough and Tricolour with the names of the deceased 1981 hunger strikers.

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