IRA volunteers Tommy ‘Toddler’ Tolan (in blue), James (Jim) McGrillen and John Stone (seated at table), and Michael Kane (foreground) are pictured in a safe house in Ballymurphy, with plates of sandwiches and a cache of weapons. The women are Annie Adams(?) and Kathleen Moore(?).
Tolan is also depicted at a larger scale on the right of the mural; in the original (2001) version, this figure was dressed in fatigues and carried a rifle (as can be seen in the Peter Moloney Collection), but this was changed within 18 months to a brown suit as shown here (July 2004).
The Springmartin “peace line” can be seen in the gap between the houses.
Update: The large Tolan figure is preserved in the 2014 mural Working Class Heroes and the other five are included anew.
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Copyright © 2004/2010 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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