“Hands off Ireland, bitch”, with a line drawing of Margaret Thatcher; “No, not a dog, but a political prisoner” with a prisoner on all fours. Also a harp in green, white, and gold, and a phoenix with Tricolours, and a hand clasping a dagger.
Rosnareen Park, west Belfast
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M00095 [M00379]
Free Derry Corner with the slogan in bold lettering and the fencing removed.
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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M00078
In addition to the board at the top of the stairs there is a tricolour with “IRA” on it (to the left) and (on the right) the names, in Irish, of the first four hunger-strikers on either side of a celtic cross: Roıbeard Ó Seachnasagh, Eamonn Mac Craoıs, Pronsıas Ó hAodha, and Pádraıg Ó hEadhra.
For the twin end-wall, see Their Hunger, Their Pain, Our Struggle.
Shaws Road, west Belfast.
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M00082
“National Front” and “UVF” and “UDA” graffiti in Hawkin Street/Kennedy Place, Derry/Londonderry, in 1981.
For the same graffiti in 1978 see National Front (M00044).
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M00073
An advertising hoarding on the Springfield Road (just before the Whiterock Road), Belfast, is taken over by a republican artist: “H” and “A” for the H-Blocks and Armagh Women’s Prison, with the names of four hunger-strikers (Bobby Sands Patsy O’Hara, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh) and two tricolours.
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M00085 M00086
“Support the hunger strikers”, “Don’t let them die”, with posters of portraits, on “Day 55” of the 1981 hunger strike.
lower Falls Road, west Belfast
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M00083
The counter for the 1981 hunger strike reaches 32.
William Street, Derry
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M00080
A slightly different list from the one featured yesterday (in Until The Last Prisoner Is Free) “1. No prison uniform; 2. No prison work; 3. Free Association; 4. Education facilities; 5. Full remission”, “Smash H Block”.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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M00059
There is a lot going on in this image: pedestrians pass in front of a row of boarded-up shops, above them is written “Until the last prisoner is free we are all imprisoned” with posters of the hunger strikers, an Irish tricolour and “If they die, you die”; on the left “No, not a dog, but a POW” and a version of the five demands, concerning prison uniforms, work, association, parcels, and remission.
Ballymurphy shops, west Belfast
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M00058
“RUC keep out”, “Patsy O’Hara”, “IRA”, “Political status must stay” on flats in Glenfada Park, opposite the Rossville flats in Derry’s Bogside. Here is a guide to the row of murals along the bottom of Rossville flats. A close-up of the left-hand side of the image above is included below.
M00057
Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
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Copyright © 1981 Peter Moloney
M00057c
Peter Moloney Collection 