A Christian cross is added to the Bloody Sunday memorial mural in Westland Street, Derry. A version without a cross was seen previously in 1999 and 2004. (The latter gives the names of the victims.) There is an oak leaf – symbol of Derry – for each of the fourteen victims.
Westland Street, Derry
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A lark (rather than a dove) bursts through the ceiling of a H-Block cell lined with the names of the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers. “This mural is dedicated to all those who tragically died on the streets of Derry during the hunger strike era. Suımhneas Dé dá nanamacha. 3rd October 2006.”
Westland St, Derry
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These paintings are on boards on the wall around the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain.
Above are two boards (on the side) showing the Apprentice Boys crying “No surrender!” and the breaking of the boom that ended the siege. A 2007 entry in the Peter Moloney Collection shows three additional panels to the right, also relating to Londonderry.
Below are two wall-paintings (on the front), of the Thiepval Memorial and the Ulster Tower. The image of the wall to the left in the Peter Moloney Collection does not include these two panels but rather the outline of the words “At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them”.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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“‘My forefathers were … the men who had followed Cromwell and who shared in the defence of Derry, and in the victories of Aughrim and the Boyne.’ – President Theodore Roosevelt, 20th US president, 1901-1904.” The “shutting of the gates” of Derry is represented in the bottom left.
The quote is derived from Volume 1, Chapter 5, of Roosevelt’s The Winning Of The West (available at Project Gutenberg). Roosevelt, however, is describing the forefathers of the Scotch-Irish, rather than his own forefathers, who, as the name suggests, were Dutch.
He writes, “The Presbyterian Irish were themselves already a mixed people. Though mainly descended from Scotch ancestors—who came originally from both lowlands and highlands, from among both the Scotch Saxons and the Scotch Celts—many of them were of English, a few of French Huguenot, and quite a number of true old Milesian Irish extraction. They were the Protestants of the Protestants; they detested and despised the Catholics, whom their ancestors had conquered, and regarded the Episcopalians by whom they themselves had been oppressed, with a more sullen, but scarcely less intense, hatred. They were a truculent and obstinate people, and gloried in the warlike renown of their forefathers, the men who had followed Cromwell, and who had shared in the defence of Derry and in the victories of the Boyne and Aughrim.”
Some sources claim that an ancestor(s) on his mother’s side emigrated from Gleno, Co Antrim in 1729, but this seems to be her great-great-grandfather James, who was a Scot (WP) and appears to have emigrated directly from Scotland, specifically Baldernock, in 1728 or 1729 (WikiTree | Friends Of Bulloch). The search for a connection continues, according to Irish Central.
This mural is one (and perhaps the first to be painted) in the series “From pioneers to presidents”. For more such murals, see the Visual History page about Ulster-Scots murals.
Replaces the King Billy mural in Wapping Lane, the Fountain, Londonderry.
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“In loving memory South Belfast Brigadier John McMichael, South Belfast UFF commander Joe Bratty.” Listed on the tombstones are Steven Audley 17 Mar 91, Harry Black 30 Sep 92, Jim Kenna 25 Jul 72, Frankie Smith 31 Jan 73, William Kingsberry 13 Nov 91, Stephen Kingsberry 10 Mar 97, Ernie Dowds 10 Oct 95, Sammy Hunt 5 Sep 76, Raymie Elder 31 Jul 94, William Hamilton 9 Sep 94, Tommy Morgan 29 Aug 94.
Lemberg Street, south Belfast, replacing the volunteers in tracksuits.
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A Visual History page details the various appearances of Eddie The Head in his guise as a Red Coat soldier-cum-UDA volunteers. In this Village Eddie, he carries an assault rifle and wears a UDA skull-cap, but, as in the Iron Maiden album cover, is trailed by the Grim Reaper. For the “reaper come to call” verse added to the right, see M02487.
“Village, Donegall Rd, Ormeau Rd, Roden St, Lisburn Rd, Sandy Row” – South Belfast A battalion
Tavanagh Street, Village, Belfast
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“Village, south Belfast, 2nd battalion, B company.” Young Citizen Volunteers of both the Home Rule (1912) and Troubles periods are shown shouldering rifles.
Broadway, Village, south Belfast
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Kieran Doherty was elected TD (Teachta Dála) for Cavan-Monaghan three weeks into his 1981 hunger strike. He held the position for two months, until he died on August 2nd. The portraits, plaques, and mural of marchers are in his home area of Andersonstown. The words “It is not those who inflict the most, but those that can endure who shall conquer in the end” is an echo of Terence MacSwiney, whose hunger strike in 1920 lasted 74 days, one more than Doherty’s.
The chimney retains the “150” from the previous mural about the Great Hunger.
Painted by Lucas Quigley in Slemish Way, Andersonstown, west Belfast
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UVF volunteer John Hanna was 19 years old when he was killed by “the enemies of Ulster” (the IRA) at his home on Donegall Road in the Village. The kneeling volunteer on the left carries a WWI regimental flag, connecting the modern UVF to the Ulster Volunteers.
The plaque at the centre of the mural reads, “In loving memory of Vol. John Hanna, murdered by the enemies of Ulster 10th September 1991. Always remembered by the offices and volunteers of 2nd Batt. “B” Coy Village. Its [sic] not for riches nor for glory but the love of one’s country which [we] are prepared to die for. Here lies a soldier. Gone but not forgotten. FGAU.”
Broadway, Village, south Belfast
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“Death is not an honour but a sacrafice [sic] and those who gave that sacrafice [sic] are remembered by those who follow. All gave some, some gave all. Quis separabit.” Village UDA C company volunteers in balaclava pose with assault rifles around an Ulster Banner in the shape of Northern Ireland.
Rockview Street, south Belfast
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