This is a mural on Whiterock Road, west Belfast, bidding “Slán Abhaıle” to a British soldier who is himself standing on Whiterock Road in front of the 1916 mural (Who Fears To Speak Of Easter Week?).
In the medallions to the left and right are four demands from during the (first) ceasefire: “End collusion, Release POWs, Disband RIR RUC, End Unionist veto”.
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Copyright © 1995 Paddy Duffy
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A tricoloured screw bears down a helmet comprising a Union Flag bowl and Ulster Banner visor.
Foyle Road end of Brook Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1995 Paddy Duffy
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A fist in flames to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle of the Bogside, and the beginning of the Troubles, 1969 – 1994. The Battle began on August 12th, 1969, with the declaration of “Free Derry” and exclusion of police. The British Army was deployed on the 14th.
For more information, see the documentaries Battle Of The Bogside and No Go on youtube, and the WP page.
Painted by Arlene Wege in Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1995 Paddy Duffy
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A large green ribbon is added to Free Derry Corner (Visual History) as a call for prioritising the release of political prisoners in negotiations that take place during the ceasefire.
In the background is The Petrol Bomber.
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Copyright © 1995 Paddy Duffy
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The Petrol Bomber was the first mural painted by the Bogside Artists – Kevin Hasson, Tom Kelly, and William Kelly – as part of what would become The People’s Gallery (Visual History).
It shows 13 year-old Paddy Coyle (Derry Journal) with a Molotov cocktail and wearing a gas mask (used to protect rioters against CS gas). The original did not have the green ribbon on the boy’s badge – it is a symbol of the movement to have POWs released as part of any peace agreement.
The Rossville flats are in the background of the mural (though not of Clive Limpkin’s original photo, included below from this gallery of Limpkin’s images of Derry 1969-1972).
Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry
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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
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A Cormac cartoon is reproduced as a mural by Mo Chara Kelly: the ceasefire means that doves (“Time for peace”) can/should be carrying British soldiers (who themselves recognise it is “Time to go”) from Ireland (tricoloured, with dolmen) to Britain (with Union flag) over the Isle of Man.
Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Paddy Duffy
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“Nature sent the potato blight, government & landlords created the famine.” 1845-1849 saw one million Irish people die and a million more emigrate. During the period, the full range of other foodstuffs was produced and shipped to England, being too expensive for the native population.
This is one of about nine murals painted in 1995 on the Great Hunger (Visual History).
Lenadoon Avenue, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Paddy Duffy
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The Blind Piper is a painting (original) by Joseph Haverty (WP), here placed in the context of North Belfast’s Cave Hill.
Sponsored by North Belfast Cultural Society (both along the bottom and in the apex).
The signatures in the corners read “Seán Doran ’94” “Paul McCullough”
Brompton Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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“Murdered by the enemies of Ulster Nov 1987. “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life” – Revelation 2 V.10″
Controversial DUP and later independent politician and preacher George Seawright served as city councillor and NI Assembly member from 1981 to 1986, when he was jailed for his role in physically attacking NI Secretary of State Tom King. The “enemies of Ulster” in this case are the IPLO.
Side-wall: “In remembrance of all those who have given their lives and their freedom in the struggle to keep Ulster Protestant.”
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Copyright © 1994 Paddy Duffy (undated image; possibly 1993)
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“Lark” in Catalan is “alosa” and in Irish “fuıseog”. This appears to be the earliest Catalan mural in the extant collections and it appears from the sponsorship in the lower corner – “Catalan comite [committee] in support of Ireland” – to be an expression of Catalonian solidarity with Ireland, rather than the other way around.
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Copyright © 1994 Paddy Duffy (undated image)
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