This is a 2004 image of the North’s longest-lasting mural. It was painted in 1981 and survives to the present day. It was painted before the custom took hold of putting flags on pikes in order to include the 1798 rebellion. Anne St/Glenanne, Derry. Seen previously in 1982.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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The mural in support of East Timor begins to show its wear (originally painted in 2000), not least because the hoarding for Duffy’s bookmakers has come off. The falling bombs are made by Raytheon, who will be back in the forefront of Derry consciousness in 2006 for their part in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Market Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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This version of the Bloody Sunday Commemoration mural differs slightly from the previous in that the oak leaves – which represent the city of Derry – have a centre line. A cross will be added next year and a major overhaul done in 2016.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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The Lindsay Mooney Memorial Flute Band was formed in 1973 after the St. Patrick’s day death of 19-year-old Lindsay Mooney, a UDA member killed by the premature explosion of a bomb near Lifford, County Donegal (Sutton). The band dissolved in 1993 but commemorative nights are still held (Sentinel) (and there are recent videos on youtube of a band with this name).
Cathedral Youth Club, the Fountain, Londonderry
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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This is the original version of the ‘Peace’ mural by the Bogside Artists, painted in 2004, on the side of Kells Walk, off Rossville Street, Derry. Rather than a lark, we have a dove, flying against the background of a Derry oak leaf. The info board is from 2007.
For the other murals in ‘The People’s Gallery’, see the Visual History page.
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Copyright © 2004/2007 Peter Moloney
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2004 mural by the Bogside Artists called “Civil Rights – The Beginning”, by which they mean the time before Bloody Sunday. See the WP page on the civil rights movement and the extensive page on NICRA, the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. The in-progress shot is from 2003.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Annette McGavigan, aged 14 years, was shot up Westland Street, at Blucher Street in 1971, the first child to be killed in the Troubles. Here are two in-progress shots from 1999 and the finished product in 2000.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
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December 2017 saw the 45th anniversary of the attack by loyalist gunmen on Annie’s Bar in the Top Of The Hill area of the Waterside (Derry Journal). Four Catholics and a Protestant were killed. “In memory of Charles Moore, Frank McCarron, Michael McGinley, Bernard Kelly, Charles McCafferty who were killed in Annie’s Bar on the 20th December 1972.”
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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After three and a half months, from April 18th to July 30th, 1689, the Siege of Derry ended when two ships, the Mountjoy (shown here) and the Phoenix, broke through a timber boom that had been placed across the Foyle. Approximately half of the population of the city had died.
Roulston Avenue, Waterside, Londonderry
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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The siege of Derry began on December 7th, 1688 when thirteen apprentice boys – without official instruction – shut the gates of the city against the approaching Jacobite army of redshanks.
Emerson Street, Waterside, Londonderry
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Peter Moloney Collection 