The AK47, halberd, and Tricolour are all that remain in 1985 of the Derry Brigade mural (shown previously from 1984) in Bishop Street, Derry.
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Missing Words
Belfast Says No
November 1985 saw the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which established an “inter-governmental conference” advisory body on (some) Northern Irish affairs, in which the Irish government participated. It spawned the slogans “Ulster says No” and the localized “Belfast says No”.
City Hall, Belfast
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IRA
An IRA volunteer reclines with rifle at the ready.
Rathlin Drive, Derry
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Bass Irish Cup
28 February, 1985, 9 RUC officers were killed in an IRA mortar attack on a Newry station (WP). Their deaths are celebrated in the graffiti above from Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, which reports the deaths as though a score from the (then) Bass Irish Cup.
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In Proud And Loving Memory Of Derry’s Dead Volunteers
Derry volunteers who died between 1970 and 1982 are commemorated in this Derry mural. Their names are listed on scrolls on either side of a phoenix. Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Joseph Coyle, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagen, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Bernard Coyle, Dennis Heaney, Patrick Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell
Bligh’s Gardens, Derry
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Discover Ireland
Darkly humorous mural in Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, parodying the ‘Discover Ireland’ tourism advertisements: “Discover Ireland: sectarian RUC, loyalist UDR, the H Blocks, plastic bullets, murdering UDA, British thugs, Armagh hell-hole, special courts … but I bet you haven’t seen the half of it.”
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Join Na Fıanna Éıreann
Two shamrocks join the Tricolour and Sunburst flags on either side of a Fıan wearing sunglasses and beret. Bligh’s Gardens, Derry
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Victory To The Provos
Graffiti in City Cemetery, Derry, including “Victory to the Provos”, “IRA (P)”, “UTP”, “FTH” and an unknown one: “RUTS” — get in touch if you know what it means.
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Provisionals
Two image of the walls between entry-way gates in Rathlin Drive, Derry, showing an IRA (“Oglaıgh na hEıreann”) volunteer with machine gun and (on the other) an armalite and a rifle as part of the “Weapons of resistance”.
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Guerilla Days In Ireland
Guerilla Days In Ireland — red and pink background to volunteers with machine gun and RPG. Based on a poster by a Short Strand artist, circa 1983.
Rathlin Drive, Derry
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