“Free Seamus Doherty” board in Lecky Road, Derry. For background information, see Free Seamus Doherty.
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Unbowed And Unbroken
At the top and bottom of the same hill, the dolmen is off St Columba’s Walk while the ogham stone is on Lecky Road. Both serve as monuments to Derry Brigade IRA 1st battalion dead. The lettering on the standing stone has worn away significantly – compare with 1999.
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Disband The RUC
Still standing after nine years (1995) – a three-in-one RUC/Orange Order/loyalist paramilitary mural in Lecky Road, Derry.
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Free Seamus Doherty
“Planted evidence – RUC collusion – altered statements. This man is a victim of State manufactured evidence supported by Denis Bradley. Come out and support the campaign for his immediate release.” Seamus Doherty was arrested in June 2003 in connection with two booby-trap car bombs outside Newry in September 2002. The case against him collapsed after the police admitted altering statements to protect an informer, along with police possession of Doherty’s DNA from an unrelated incident. He was released in November, 2004. (An Phoblacht | saoirse32 | indymedia)
Lecky Road, Brandywell, Derry
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Peace
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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Stop The Strip Searches
Republican graffiti protesting treatment of prisoners in Maghaberry, off Rossville Street, Derry.
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Civil Rights
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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Brıogáıd Dhoıre Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann
Many memorial plaques to IRA volunteers have been featured previously on this site: Michael Quigley | Brian Coyle | Patsy Duffy | Dennis Heaney | John Starrs | Charles English | Seamus Bradley | Sean Dolan | George McBrearty & Pop Maguire (see also Bronco Bradley). The Derry Brigade memorial in the median between Fahan Street and Rossville Street “is dedicated to those Volunteers who died in places where circumstances do not permit the erection of a commemorative plaque.” There are 18 names on the stone. Vintage rifles are crossed in front of an oak leaf, symbol of the city of Derry.
“Ar fud na ceathrach seo, tá gluaıseacht na poblachta tar éıs na haıteacha mar a bhfuaır Óglach na hÉıreann bás ar fıanas a mharcáıl le leaca cuımhneacháın. Tá an leac seo toırbhrıthe do na hÓglaıgh sıúd a fuaır bás ın áıteacha nach bhfuıl fóırsteanach do thógáıl leıca cuımhneachaın. Arna thógáıl a gcomrádaıthe ı nGluaıseacht na poblachta. 12ú Deıreadh Fómhaır 2003. Beırıgí bua.”
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner is repainted in 2004, with smaller lettering for the first four words. You can compare this version to previous ones and learn about the wall using the Visual History page for Free Derry Corner.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Charles Love
The memorial plaque to Charles (Charlie) Love was originally mounted in 1991 and preserved when the flats at the junction of Fahan Street and Rossville Street, Derry, were re-done. (The Runner would later be painted around it by the Bogside Artists.) “In memory of Charles Love, accidentally killed on 28th January 1990. Unveiled by his father Patrick. Erected by the Bloody Sunday Initiative 27th January 1991. Padre Pio pray for him.” Love was 17 years old when he was hit by flying masonry from an IRA bomb while attending a Bloody Sunday memorial.
Fahan Street/Rossville Street, Derry
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