In-progress image of what would become the Loch gCál/Loughgall mural in memory of the eight IRA volunteers who were killed in an SAS ambush during an attack on an RUC base in 1987.
Painted by Mo Chara Kelly and inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick.
Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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This repainting of a 1986 mural in AMCOMRI Street, Belfast, whitewashes the SF logo from the middle of the Tricolour and much of the graffiti in the surround painted out.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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This is a touched-up version of the phoenix mural, originally painted in 1981, in Clowney Street, Belfast. The phoenix has white tips to its wings and the mural is signed simply “Done by Sınn Féın”. The four provinces and the verses remain as before: “The people arose in 69/they will do it again at any time. Maggie Thatcher think again/don’t let our brave men die in vain.” Election posters for Gerry Adams of Sınn Féın are above the mural.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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“LPOW” (Loaylist Prisoners Of War) on the outside of a stairwell in Kennedy Place/The Fountain, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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Tricolour and Sunburst flags with a simplified version of the Sınn Féın logo. Above can be seen an old graffiti: “Damn your concessions, England; we demand political status.”
Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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A wide shot of the 14 panels along the bottom of Rossville flats, Derry, in 1986.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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Here are later-in-the-year images of the murals in The Fountain, Londonderry – the building (which would later become the Cathedral Youth Club) is showing some wear and tear. See previously in 1986 The Fountain and for the murals in progress in 1985.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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These 1986 images of Bishop Street, Derry, show various murals falling into disrepair, though the Weapons Of The Armed Struggle panel has been cleaned up. Here is the complete wall in 1982.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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The ten deceased hunger strikers are named, called “H-Block Martyrs”, and their entry into heaven requested: “St. Peter let these men into heaven, for they have served their time in hell” (for info, see I Refuse To Change) alongside a christian cross.
The lower part of the gate is the last stanza of a Yeats poem, Three Songs To The One Burden: “Some had no thought of vi[c]tory but had gone out to die, that Ireland mind be greater, her heart mount up on high; and yet who knows what[‘]s to come[?]”
This is a repainted and greatly changed version of Remember The Hunger Strikers in Westland Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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A paint-bombed 1986 version of 1985’s Firing Party.
Chamberlain Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1986 Peter Moloney
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