Portraits of IRA Derry Brigade members Danny Doherty, Willie Fleming, and Ciaran Fleming (all three from the Top Of The Hill in Derry’s Waterside) above a painted tricolour. Doherty and W. Fleming died in an SAS ambush on the grounds of Gransha hospital (WP). Ciaran was drowned attempting to escape the SAS after a bombing attack gone wrong (WP).
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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This is not Derry or Belfast but the Bobby Sands’ Sinn Féin Centre in Enniskillen, county Fermanagh. To the left is a lark in barbed wire with the words “Towards liberty”.
Darling Street, Enniskillen.
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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On the left, two Irish tricolours hang from a celtic cross in pink and yellow; on the right, an armed IRA volunteer stands guard.
Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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The busts of the ten dead hunger strikers are shown on a background of Starry Plough and Irish Tricolout flags, alongside a piece of graffiti reading “Derry not Londonderry.” The Fianna Eireann board was previously featured separately in 1983. Rossville Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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“Ireland a nation, Irish and free” and “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” (from Patrick Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa), with the island of Ireland in the colours of the Irish flag.
Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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Volunteer aiming an armalite, on Bishop Street, Derry. Vandalised with “SAS Rule”.
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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The Sınn Féın logo on the island of Ireland, with green, white, and orange brickwork.
Bishop Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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Crossed Irish Tricolours are joined by two harps and a shamrock, two lesser-seen emblems – for other shamrocks, see Patsy O’Hara O.C. and Blessed Are Those Who Hunger For Justice. Ard Foyle, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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PLO and IRA volunteers share an RPG launcher, symbolizing their “One struggle”. “Painted by the Irish Republican Youth Movement.” Beechmount (a.k.a. RPG) Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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Here is a 1982 image of the Break Thatcher’s Back mural in Rockmore Road, Belfast, showing a blanket man with outstretched arms demanding “status now”, framed by a large “H” and surrounded by barbed wire, Tricolours, and the Starry Plough. In 1981, there was a Sean O’Casey quote on the left, rather than a lily and the year of the Easter Rising — 1916. “Free Belfast” in the top left.
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Copyright © 1982 LC
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