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In Proud And Loving Memory Of Derry’s Dead Volunteers

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Derry volunteers who died between 1970 and 1982 are commemorated in this Derry mural. Their names are listed on scrolls on either side of a phoenix. Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Joseph Coyle, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagen, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Bernard Coyle, Dennis Heaney, Patrick Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell

Bligh’s Gardens, Derry

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Divis Flats

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Four images from Divis Flats, Belfast, in 1985.  First and second, the two murals in the middle of the complex, both from 1981, one to INLA volunteers Matt McLarnon (killed in action on 12 May, 1981) and Danny Loughran (killed by the OIRA on 5 April, 1975) and the other (on the left) a street scene from yesteryear, part of the City Council’s Community Services programme from 1977 to 1981 (see chapter 2 of Bill Rolston’s Politics & Painting). Third, “Touts beware”. Fourth, “Stop the strip searches” on the top of the flats (to the right of faded “Divis Flats supports the hunger strikers”).

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An Phoblacht

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Here – badly damaged – is the first mural in Sevastopol Street, Belfast, showing workers reading the paper against the background of an edition of the paper commemorating the Easter Rising. “Official organ of the Republican Movement: Contents include War News, Features, IRA Statement, Prison News from Ireland & England, News from throughout the 32 Counties, Solidarity News from Abroad.” The emblem of the United Irishmen – a maid of Erin harp with the words “Equality – It is new strung and shall be heard” – is in the top left.

“Painted by Beechmount & Iveagh Sınn Féın Youth.”

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Women In Armed Struggle

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“Solidarity between women in armed struggle” across the world: female members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Cumann Na mBan, and the Southwest African People’s Organisation (from Namibia) drawn within the symbol for woman (also the planet Venus in astrology). The mural (or perhaps the wall) was “Improved by Sınn Féın Youth” and on the side-wall: “Cowardly loyalists backout”. Falls Road, Belfast

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