Here are two faded panels (the first and last) from the four shown in Ireland’s Cross To Bear.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00761 M00763
Ireland’s Cross To Bear
painted wall
The Conveyor Belt
Faded 1989 vertsion of 1981’s The Conveyor Belt Of Justice (Castlereagh – Crumlin Road Gaol – Diplock Court – H-Blocks of Long Kesh) in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00762
Mandela Father Of Freedom
Paintbombed 1989 version of Mandela Father Of Freedom.
Lesson Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00770
Lark Of War
Rather than being trapped in barbed wire, this lark carries an armalite rifle across the four provinces of Ireland. (BRY = Ballycolman Republican Youth)
Ballycolman estate, Strabane
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00768
Ballymurphy Youth Club
A clash of mythical creatures in Springhill Avenue, Belfast: the white Pegasus and a black unicorn.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00760
A Legitimate Right To Take Up Arms
A year after creation, the boards at the top of the Gibraltar 3 mural have given way. 1988 image of A Legitimate Right To Take Up Arms.
Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00756
Our Day Will Come
1989 image of Our Day Will Come in Westrock Drive, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00754
Nuada & Loughgall
1989 image of Is É Seo Nuadha Rí Tuatha Dé Danann and Loch gCál together at the top of Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
See also 1988 image of the pair, with Loch gCál in better condition.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00752
Freedom’s Sons
Here are two images of a mural from the bottom of the Falls Road (where the Garden Of Remembrance now is) showing a striding volunteer with raised rifle. The mural would later be modified to specify the unit as “D coy, 2nd batt, Belfast Brigade [IRA]” – see M00802.
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00769 M00755
Uprising
The cover of Bob Marley’s Uprising album is reproduced (with an additional image of Marley at the top) by Mo Chara Kelly on the wall of his (old) home in Springhill Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
M00759
Peter Moloney Collection 