Banner on a block of flats above the painted kerb-stones in Kennedy Place/The Fountain, Derry. With an Ulster banner to the left.
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The Fountain Says No!
Tell The World, Freedom Is At Hand
The death by hanging of African National Congress supporter Benjamin Moloise on 18 October, 1985, for the alleged murder of a South African policeman, drew international condemnation and led to widespread rioting in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. (ExecutedToday | Jet) His words, “tell the world, freedom is at hand”, are paired with a phrase from Bobby Sands, “we aim to be free”, in this ANC-IRA mural featuring an armalite and a zulu shield and spear. In the second and third images the boards (above the mural) declaring west Belfast an “apartheid free zone”/”ceantar saor ó apartheıd” can be seen.
“Beır bua” [seize victory]; “erected by Sınn Féın April 1986”
Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá/Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast
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You Are Now Entering Free Derry
Free Derry Corner in 1986, with a burning vehicle outside the Bogside Inn.
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Say Yes
Two similar graffiti from Central Drive, Creggan, Derry: “Ulster says No but … the man from Del Monte says Yes/the queen says Yes.” Also, “The last supper Newry”?
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IRA (P)
Six of the hunger-strikers are named and their paramilitary associations given: B. Sands (PIRA), R. McCreesh (PIRA), J. McDonnell (PIRA), F. Hughes (PIRA), P. O’Hara (INLA), M. Hurson (PIRA).
Blucher Street, Derry.
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RUC Pigs
An unhappy pig wearing a police cap in Hawkin Street, Londonderry.
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Loyalist graffiti in Hawkin Street, Londonderry, celebrating the deaths on Bloody Sunday. (For the names of the dead, see the 1974 Bloody Sunday Memorial.) (For a similar republican ‘football score’ concerning RUC deaths, see Bass Irish Cup.)
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INLA OK
Lots of “INLA”s in Glenfada Park, Derry, with a starry plough in the background.
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Roll Of Honour
This is a black-and-white, English-language, version of a ‘roll of honour’, with names in Celtic script, mural that would quickly be redone (see I gCuimhne Agus In Onóir). The graffiti underneath read Maggie Lured Hurd To Be A Turd. There is also graffiti on the low wall: “All the queens horses and [all the queens men] couldn’t catch the IRA in [London again]”. Kells Walk/Rossville Street, Derry
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Patsy O’Hara Youth Movement
“Flynny” and various others have left their mark on a ‘Patsy O’Hara Youth Movement’ mural showing an INLA volunteer between Starry Plough and Tricolour in Divis Flats.
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