The subject for the fifth mural by The Bogside Artists (Visual History) is Annette McGavigan, the first child to be killed by British forces in the Troubles, in 1971 (WP).
Lecky Road, Derry
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Copyright © 2001 Paddy Duffy
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12-year-old Carol Ann Kelly was shot by the British Army on May 22nd, 1981, and died three days later. Eight other children are remembered in this mural: Tobias Molloy, Frances Rowntree, Seamus Duffy, Paul Whitters, Stephen McConomy, Brian Stewart, Stephan Geddis, and Julie Livingstone. Molloy and Rowntree were killed by rubber bullets, the rest by plastic bullets.
The mural, by Andrea Redmond, is in Twinbrook Road, Dunmurry, near where Kelly was shot.
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Copyright © 2000 Paddy Duffy
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“To be free of poverty is a human right.” October 17th, each year, is the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The mural shown above states that “12 of the 16 most deprived wards in Belfast are in W. Belfast”.
Mural by Andrea Redmond and Margaret McCann sponsored by W. Belfast Economic Forum and the Falls Women’s Centre, showing children of the world under a rainbow and between a dolmen and a ?parrot?.
Dunlewey Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1997 Paddy Duffy
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This is an in-progress image of a mural sponsored by and for the Upper Springfield Development Trust (web | until 1993 the Upper Springfield Development Forum) focusing on young people: “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí.” (Praise youth/the young and it will flourish.”/”Youth responds to praise.”)
For a finished version, see the Peter Moloney Collection.
Signed by “Mo Chara” (Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly) and “Spud” in the bottom right corner.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
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This is a difficult mural to interpret and might be incomplete. It appears to show an indigenous child, whose skin is marked with a Union Flag, feasting on the bloody arm of a human adult whose skull sits behind the child. It is perhaps a reference to the colonial exploits of the British in Kenya or in the Putumayo – please comment/get in touch if you can shed any light on the mural.
The mural is in the bricked-up display-window of a shop between Spinner Street and Leeson Street (on the eastern/Dunville Park side of the Falls Road).
Falls Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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Paddy Duffy Collection 