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Brıogáıd Dhoıre

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The IRA Derry Brigade/Brıogáıd Dhoıre Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann memorial at the shops on Racecourse Road, Shantollow, Derry, includes quotes from Robert Emmet (not: Emmett) – “When my country takes her place among the nations of the Earth, then and not until then let my epitaph be written” – and the 1916 Proclamation – “We declare the right of the people of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies to be sovereign and indefeasible” – in both English and Irish.

Seven members of the Derry Brigade are listed on the central stone: Junior McDaid, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, Jim Gallagher, Dennis Heaney, Bronco Bradley, Tony Gough, and (a new addition compared to 2003) Damien Doherty. “Fuaır sıad bás ar son muıntır na hÉıreann”.

“Nuaır a ghlacfaıdh mo thír dhúchaıs a háıt cheart ı measc náısıún uıle an domhaın, ansın, agus chan go dtí sın, déanaıgí feartlaoı s’agamsa a scríobh amach. – Roıbéard Eıméıd 1803” – “When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not until then let my epitaph be written – Robert Emmett 1778-1803”

“Dearbhaıonn muıd gur cheart go mbeadh seılbh ag muıntır na hÉıreann ar thalamh na hÉıreann. Ba chóır ıad a bheıth ı gceannas ar thodhchaí na hÉıreann agus ar a dtarlóıdh dı amach anseo – Forógra na hÉıreann, An Cháısc 1916” – “We declare the right of the people of Ireland, to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies to be sovereign and indefeasible – The Proclamation, Easter 1916”

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Our Fenian Dead

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In this extension to the Shantallow memorial garden for the IRA’s Derry Brigade the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, all of whom were executed following the Rising, are placed alongside nine Derry Brigade volunteers who died between 1972 and 1986.

Numbering the panels from left to right from 1 to 16, the seven are: (1) Pádraıg Pearse, (5) Thomas McDonagh, (7) Thomas Clarke, (9) Joseph Plunkett, (11) Éamonn Ceannt, (13) James Connolly, (15) Sean Mac Dıarmada. And the nine are (2) Junior McDaid d. 1972, (3) Gerard Craig d. 1974, (4) David Russell d. 1974, (6) Michael Meenan d. 1974, (8) Jim Gallagher d. 1976, (10) Dennis Heaney d. 1978, (12) Bronco Bradley d. 1982, (14) Neil McMonagle d. 1983, (16) Tony Gough d. 1986.

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The Runner

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‘The Runner’ is the final mural painted by the Bogside Artists in the series that would in 2007 be collectively given the name The People’s Gallery (the John Hume mural was added in 2008). The mural shows youths running from CS gas in Creggan. There are portraits of Charles Love and Manus Deery (see his Bogside plaques) at the bottom; the plaque to Love in the centre is retained.

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Operation Motorman

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Operation Motorman, the British Army’s retaking of ‘Free Derry’, took place on July 31st, 1972. This is a repainting; for the previous version, see T02079, and for the 2001 original, see M01426.

(Part of The People’s Gallery by the Bogside Artists.)

The plaque is to Patrick Shiels (see M03583).

For the ICA-INLA board, see T04237.

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Always Anti-Fascist

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The Easter lily and the red star mark this graffiti-art-style slogan in Durrow Park, Derry, as republican-socialist; RSYM = Republican Socialist Youth Movement (Fb), IRSP = Irish Republican Socialist Party (web), AFA = Anti-Fascist Action (Fb)). There is a small “Victory to Hamas” graffito to the right.

For the large Arm Saoırse Náısıúnta Na hÉıreann (INLA) board, see Serious Trouble.

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The INLA

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Commemorations of the INLA’s fiftieth anniversary have so far been limited to graffiti – see Saoırse Go Deo in Derry and Let The Fight Go On in Belfast – but here we have two deliberately painted panels in the Bogside (specifically Meenan Square) (one replacing The Way We Were).

The “Men’s Mental Health” addition to the Mandela-Sands mural is also from the IRSP (Xitter)

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H

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“H” for “H-blocks” and for “hunger” – the flower garden in front of the hunger strikers’ memorial in Rossville Street, Derry, has been replaced with this “H” in white pebbles among black.

For close-ups of the memorial stones, see this entry in the Peter Moloney Collection. Through the legs in the large “H” can be seen the IRA Derry Brigade memorial.

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Saoırse Go Deo

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The 1918 ‘Representation Of The People’ act gave 8.4 million women in the United Kingdom the right to vote (WP). (For the two women on the left holding the ‘Votes For Women’ sign, see Women’s Hall And Cost-Price Restaurant.) In that same year, Countess Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to Westminster and became Sınn Féın Minister For Labour in the first Dáıl Éıreann that was established as an alternative. Ten years earlier, she had co-founded Na Fıanna Éıreann with Bulmer Hobson. The names of Derry fianna are listed on the right. “Fuaır sıad bás ar son saoırse na hÉıreann.” (This board replaces the former Fianna mural that celebrated the centenary in 2009.)

To the left (above) is a “Join RSYM” stencil with the names of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers; to the right is a picture of the memorial across the street to the dead of the 3rd battalion of the Doıre Brigade Óglaıgh na hÉıreann.

“But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel to the one thing – a free and independent republic.”

“Ach a fhad is nach bhfuıl Éıre saor, seasfaıdh mé an fód mar cheannaırceach, gan géılleadh, gan athrú. Níl focal dá bhfuıl atá chumhachtach go leor. Tá gealltanas tugtha agam mar cheannaırceach, cuspóır amháın a chur ı gcrích – poblacht shaor agus neamhspleach.”

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