“Brits out – not sellout”, “SF/RUC”, and “A vote for SF [Sınn Féın] is a vote for the RUC” (a reference to Sınn Féın’s decision to takes its seats on the PSNI policing board in 2007).
Lecky Road, Derry
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Pearse’s famous “Ireland unfree …” is modified to become “Women unfree shall never be at peace” alongside a combined anarchist and female (Venus) symbol. With the rejoinder: “Fuck up and make the tea!”
Northland Road, Derry
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“Disband RUC” still visible in 2007 in Park Avenue, Derry.
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“This stone was presented by the Republican Movement, Derry, on the 22nd October 1999 in recognition of those who tend this Republican plot and republican graves in this cemetery.” “Buıoch [= buíochas?] ó Ghluaıseacht na Poblachta.”
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M03615
These are close-ups of the IRA memorial in Derry’s City Cemetery (“Erected Easter 1975”, with the roll of honour extended around the base and then onto additional stones, and a plaque added in 1991 on the 75th anniversary of the second hunger strike and seen first in 1994). “Arna tógáıl An Cháısc 1975, ag Brıogáıd Dhoıre, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann ın ómós agus ı gcuımhne ár gcomrádaıthe a rınne a ardíobaırt go saortar ár dtír dhúchaıs.”
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All five people included on this plaque – Joe Coyle, Tommy Carlin, Tommy McCool and two daughters Bernadette and Carole – were killed by a premature explosion as bombs were being made in the McCool’s house in Dunree Gardens in Creggan. The plaque is on the side of the community centre in Fanad Drive, Derry.
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The Orange Order was prevented from marching from Drumcree church (shown in the board) down the Garvaghy Road (in Portadown) by the RUC in the mid- to late-1990s, which the OO claimed impinged upon its “civil and religious liberty” (in the flag). The dispute was notable (among other reasons) for the emergence of Billy Wright (then a member of the UVF). Wright was unhappy with how the dispute was conducted and ultimately he and his unit were stood down (in 1996), and Wright went on to found the LVF.
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M03597
This memorial plaque is “in memory of [LVF] Brigadier Billy Wright (King Rat)”. Wright was killed in the Maze in December 1997 by members of the INLA (neither the INLA or LVF were on ceasefire).
Both the plaque and the LVF graffiti are in Kilcoole Drive, Dungannon.
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“An Gorta Mór 1845-1848. In memory of the 500 inhabitants of Rathlin island who emigrated to America and England during The Great Famine.” Church Quarter, Rathlin.
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