IRA

Women In Armed Struggle

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“Solidarity between women in armed struggle” would be added in the bottom right (or is perhaps obscured by the burnt-out lorry. The imagery shows female members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Cumann Na mBan, and the Southwest African People’s Organisation (from Namibia) drawn within the symbol for woman (also the planet Venus in astrology).

Painted by Kes and “Improved by Sınn Féın Youth” (added to the bottom left) at the top of Fallswater Street. (Compare with the Peter Moloney Collection’s image from 1985.)

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Copyright © 1983 Paddy Duffy
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We Are Here To Stay

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This mural celebrates the IRA (“Óglaigh Na hÉıreann” at the top) from 1919 (the army of the independent Dáıl Éıreann) to the “present” day of 1982. In the centre, a lark flies against a Tricolour, with the word “Saoırse” (“freedom”) beneath.

This is a repainted version of the original, which was one of several murals in Beechmount and the Rock streets that were paint-bombed by “marauding Coldstream Guards” (according to AP/RN of 1982-04-29) – for the damaged mural, see the Peter Moloney Collection. The “1919” date would be changed to “1916”.

Islandbawn Street, west Belfast, replacing The Right Hon. Bobby Sands.

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Copyright © 1982 Paddy Duffy
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Victory To The IRA

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“Victory [to the] IRA”. Volunteers with RPGs and armalites in Rossnareen, kneeling over an outline of Ireland in green, white, and gold. The central trio comes from an IRA publicity photograph, included below.

Rossnareen Avenue, west Belfast

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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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(unattributed IRA photograph. Also appears in this 1974 poster at CAIN.)

Incident At Narrow Water

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This mural depicts (one part of) the IRA’s 1979 ambush of the British Army at Narrow Water Castle, near Warrenpoint (WP), on the same day that Louis Mountbatten was killed (see 13 Gone But Not Forgotten).

For interpretation of the piece and its role in the history of CNR muraling, see Visual History 4 – Paramilitary Murals (1981-1982).

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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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