An Easter lily and a Tricolour. Below is a line drawing of a British soldier, “Resist oppression” has replaced “Resist British bully boys“. Homer Sykes has an image from the bottom of (the old) Stanley’s Walk.
Stanley’s Walk, Derry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
M00139
“In god our trust” 1688-1690. An early (1916?) painting by Bobby Jackson and perhaps the only rendition of this scene in a mural – it was a popular postcard (included below).
There is an image of the mural in Homer Sykes’s collection.
Clarence Place, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
M00071 M00072
1688-1690 King William/King Billy/ crossing the Boyne in the left-hand panel, Siege of Derry in the right.
Spencer Street, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
M00063 M00062
Graffiti and crude drawings on the cemetery wall: a volunteer, “(P)IRA”, flags, “Freedom 75”
See previously Easter 1916-1972
Iniscarn Crescent, Derry
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Copyright © 1975 Peter Moloney
M00009
Republican graffiti in Westland Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M02078
“NICRA 1974”. “Their epitaph is in the continuing struggle for democracy.” “This monument was unveiled by Mrs. B. Bond of Derry CRA on the 26th January 1974 to the memory of Patrick J. Doherty (aged 31 years), Gerard V. Donaghey (17), John F. Duddy (17), Hugh P. Gilmour (17), Michael G. Kelly (17), Michael M. McDaid (20), Kevin G. McElhinney (17), Bernard McGuigan (41), James G. McKinney (27), William N. Nash (19), James J. Wray (22), John P. Young (17), and to John Johnston (59) who died later as a result of injuries received that day, who were murdered by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday 30th January 1972.” RTÉ video of the unveiling.
Rossville Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M01541 M01542 M01543
“IRA Provos” and exuberant kids next to a wall that would later be a prime site for murals, from 1984 onward.
Westland Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M02117
Western walls of Derry a.k.a. Nailors’ Row Derry.
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M02115
Sınn Féın Centre, “Kandy Korner”, “Up the IRA” and a tricolour in the window.
Westland [“Westend”?] Terrace, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M02114 (see also M02113 of the same building in 1972)
“Paras Out”, “What about Sargeant Whitelock?”, “The laundry man thought he was smart but he got a bullet in the heart”, “Join your local IRA”, “Army out”, “No queen”, “Join the army and kill”, “Up the IRA”.
Racecourse Road, Derry
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Copyright © 1974 Peter Moloney
M00028
Peter Moloney Collection 