“This is what links us together … identity.” A project supported by the New Belfast Community Arts Initiative (from Community Arts Forum, now Community Arts Partnership).
Mountpottinger Road, east Belfast
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
M02358
“His only crime was fighting for human rights without violence – Say a little prayer today for Martin Luther King and the Bloody Sunday victims”. A poster of MLK is placed at the base of the Bloody Sunday memorial in Joseph Place, Derry. He was shot in Memphis on April 4th, 1968. The phrase “his only crime” is used by loyalists in the phrase “his only crime was loyalty”, which dates back (at least) to home rule.
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Copyright © 2004 Peter Moloney
M02133
“Collusion is state murder”. ‘Wanted’ posters for [RUC chief] Ronnie Flanagan, John Major, [FRU head] Gordon Kerr, Margaret Thatcher. Falls Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
M01997
Added to the drawing of collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries are portraits and news reports of its victims: John Slane, John Devine, Peter Watterson, Anthony McGrady, Sadie Larmour, Paddy McAllister, Jim ‘Skipper’ Burns, Paddy BRady, Philomena Hanna, Patrick Hamill, and shopkeepers Jim Carson and Sean Hughes.
Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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Pat Hughes was a former British Army soldier who later joined the IRA and was killed in an accidental explosion (in 1972). He is remembered along with Edward Grant (1973), Michael Hughes (1974), Brendan Watters (1984), Colm Marks (1991). Together the five are known as the “Derrybeg Martyrs”.
Main Avenue, Newry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01734
“Dedicated to the memory of INLA volunteer Matt McLarnon, Nora McCabe and Peter Doherty who were murdered in this area by British state forces during the 1981 H-Block hunger strike. A Mhuıre banríon na nGael guí ar a son”. The area in question is Clonard/Falls. Doherty and McCabe were hit by plastic bullets; McLarnon was shot by a sniper on Divis tower. Erected by a Sınn Féın group (Lower Falls/Clonard Committee) rather than INLA.
old Linden Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01678
Bobby Sands takes centre place, while Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are added to the cross-bar (on either side of Joe McDonnell, who lived in Lenadoon) in a 20th anniversary “H” on Stewartstown Road, Belfast. In the top right is a lark in a circle and the words “The spirit of freedom”.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01640
A small tribute to the Bloody Sunday dead on the 30th anniversary of the event: portraits of fifteen victims with two verses of a song “Murder In Mind”: “They came to our town, the Paras, with murder in mind//As people marched down from Creggan/Towards the Guildhall for civil rights/It was a cold but sunny day/No one could image what was in front of them that sunny day.//The Paras stood in William Street/Laughing and chatting and raring to go/To murder for king and crown/And for Ted Heath 10 Downing Street”.
For the memorial pillar itself, see these images from 1974, its inaugural year.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
M01606
Hunger strikers Patsy O’Hara and Raymond McCreesh died on the same day – May 21st, 1981. There are thus two portraits placed next to the memorial in Rossville Street, Derry, on this day each year.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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“Votáıl Adams” and the rest of the Sınn Féın’s team. Both Westminster and local elections were held on June 7th, 2001.
This is the first photographic election ad from Sınn Féın in the collection. Up to this point, there have only been painted boards.
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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