“Ka-boom” from an RPG slamming into the side of the post office in Kilwilkie, Lurgan. The piece was seen in 2015 (Peter Moloney Collection) but it showing minimal signs of aging.
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This is and old (2009) repaint of the mural in the Markets to IRA volunteers: They are: Tony Nolan, Joseph Downey, Frank Fitzsimons, Joey Surgenor, Paul Marlowe, Jim Templeton, and Brendan Davison.
See previously 2002 and the paint-bombed 2006.
The photograph on which this mural is based can be found in this entry on a 1981 Rosnareen mural.
Friendly Street, Belfast
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There are two unusual features of this UVF mural in Monkstown: the six volunteers are unmasked – so, this is not a “hooded gunman” mural – and two of the volunteers – the pair in the centre carrying, though not aiming, Uzis – are female. As far as we know, this is the only PUL mural showing armed females. (See the Visual History page on women in murals and muraling.)
The records of this mural are contradictory – this image in the Paddy Duffy Collection is dated April, 1997; other, less reliable, sources give 1999 as the date of its creation and say it was plastered over in 1996 (Xitter). All of this confusion, and its limited appearance in the various collections, suggests that this was a short-lived mural, perhaps because the Uzis, assault rifles, and RPG were being brandished next to Hollybank primary school.
Hollybank Park, Monkstown, Newtownabbey
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This is a pair of murals in Snugville Street as it was being redeveloped in the mid-1990s. Above, “UFF rocket team on tour, west Belfast ’94”. Johnny Adair’s C company, acquired an RPG-7 rocket launcher and used it in attacks on Connolly House and the Rock Bar in early 1994 (BelTel | UPI). Below, two hooded gunmen with assault rifles: “Ulster Freedom Fighters will resist any Eire involvement in our country”.
Adair went to prison in 1995 and when he came out in 1999, had a large number of murals painted in the lower Shankill estate.
Side-by-side in Snugville Street, west Belfast
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This mural shows nine hooded republican volunteers employing an assortment of weapons – rifles, RPG launcher, drogue bomb, machine gun – against a rising sun. “We will have our day.” The trio in the bottom right corner are familiar from other murals, such as this one in Strabane.
South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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“Armed struggle, people’s politics – revolution.” A volunteer with rocket-propelled grenade launcher on “RPG Avenue” (Beechmount Avenue), west Belfast.
According to Rolston (1991 p. 100), the silhouettes of at the bottom are based on the movie poster for Reds.
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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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