This is a 1985 image of a 1981 mural featured previously. The side-wall to the left had not been painted in 1981 — see There Is An Inner Thing In Every Man.
Blucher Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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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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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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The weapons of the IRA are on display in this Whiterock Road, Belfast mural. Please e-mail/comment if you can identify the machine gun in the centre.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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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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A black-and-white portrait of Bobby Sands on a gable wall in Fanad Drive, Derry, dating back to 1981.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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An armed volunteer against the backdrop of an undivided island of Ireland. Linsfort Drive, Derry. See also Sinn Féin, at the other end of this row of houses on Creggan Heights (but is dated 1987).
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These two murals — one about censorship (“Many have eyes but cannot see?”) and one about the death by platic bullet of Sean Downes (“Sean Downes RIP — Who Next” see this NYTimes article for a description) — are adjacent to one another in Blucher Street, Derry. “Many Have Eyes” is based on a poster from the May 1968 Paris Uprising, “Information Libre” (below).
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A dolmen, standing stones, designs from Newgrange, an illustration from a Celtic manuscript, and the warrior Cú Chulaınn (Visual History) surround some lines from Padraıg Pearse’s poem Mıse Éıre:
“Mıse Éıre, sıne mé na [sic – ná] an ċaılleaċ béara [sic – ḃéara],
Mór mo ġlóıre, mé a rug ċúċulann cróga.
Mór mo náıre, mo ċlann féın do díol [sic – a ḋíol] a máṫaır.
[Mór mo ṗıan, bıthnaıṁde do mo ṡíorchıapaḋ.
Mór mo ḃrón, d’éag an dream ınar ċuıreas dóċas.]
Mıse Éıre, uaıgní mé na [sic – ná] an ċaılleaċ béara [sic – ḃéara].”
Or, in English:
“I am Ireland: I am older than the Hag Of Beara.
Great my glory, I who bore brave Cú Chulaınn.
Great my shame, my own children that sold their mother.
[Great my pain, my irreconcilable enemy who harasses me continually.
Great my sorrow, that crowd, in whom I placed my trust, decayed.]
I am Ireland: I am lonelier than the Hag Of Beara.”
The wide shots show both Chamberlain Street murals, Mıse Éıre and the Firing Party mural featured separately. For the circus mural to the right, see M00056.
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The plaque in the rop corner (shown in the final image) reads: “This mural was designed & painted by the creative talents of Derry republicans. … It was vandalised by the destructive talents of the RUC & British Army”. The mural showed six raised arms, carrying (from left to right) a paintbrush, a spanner, coloured pencils, an armalite, a book, and a placard reading “Tıocfaıd[h] ár lá” and a full version of Bobby Sands’s quote is on the side wall: “Everyone, republican or otherwise, has his or her own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small. No one is too old or too young to do something.” A number of paint bombs have been thrown at the mural and graffiti added, describing Sands as “slimmer of the year, ha ha” and saying “Fuck the IRA”.
Westland Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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