“You are now entering Free Derry” – Free Derry Corner with The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette murals in the background.
For a Visual History of the gable, see Free Derry Corner.
(A copy (in Belfast) of one of the flyers on the side of the wall in the first image above can be seen in End Impunity.)
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Here are two commercial murals from the northwest.
First (above) is a mural outside The Don bar in London-/Derry, which reads “Guinness: Good stout, no strings attached.” (The previous version had a pint being held out to the Don, with the words “Guinness: An offer you can’t refuse”.)
Second (below) is a fish and chip shop called Skippers in Dún Geımhın/Dungiven.
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A new, computer-designed and -printed board in Twinbrook/Cıll Uaıghe, with painted lettering below, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Gibraltar killings and subsequent attack on the funeral in Milltown cemetery (for which see also 25 Years – Complete and In Progress).
One of the twin brooks is Colin Burn, which runs through the Colin Glen forest park; Cıll Uaıghe is reflected in the name of the nearby Kilwee industrial estate. Strictly speaking, this piece is ‘beyond Belfast’, as Poleglass and Twinbrook are under the jurisdiction of Lisburn City Council.
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X02322 remembering the tragic events surrounding the unlawful execution of ira volunteers in gibralter gibraltar by the sas on the 6th march 1988, the shooting of vol. kevin mccracken in the defence of the community, the murderous attack on the gibraltar funeral by a british state sponsored assassin and killing of mourners john murray thomas mcerlean vol. caoımhín mac brádaıgh sean savage maıréad farrell dan mccann, i ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne, always remembered with pride by the people of the colin area
A funeral cortège heads up Rossville Street/Lecky Road in Derry, past Free Derry Corner and the ‘Bernadette’ mural (featuring Bernadette McAliskey and the battle of the Bogside) in ‘The People’s Gallery‘.
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Bobby Sands grew up and went to school in Rathcoole but in 1972, when he was eighteen, the family home was attacked. They moved to Twinbrook, where Sands joined the IRA (Bobby Sands Trust | WP).
This mosaic is near the Twinbrook home, on the same wall that was the site of the Carol-Ann Kelly mural. Kelly was killed two weeks after Sands’s death.
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A version of Picasso’s Guernica next to the Museum Of Free Derry, in Glenfada Park in the Bogside. The original is black and white and grey, as in the mural on the International Wall, but here has been coloured in a palette that matches the colour of the wall. Modern-looking aeroplanes, one dropping bombs, have also been added at the top of the image – the bombing took place in 1937, during the Spanish civil war – and the scene seems to be outdoors, rather than indoors.
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A board has quickly gone up, on top of the Guernica mural on the so-called International Wall, to commemorate the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5th, at age 58 (WP).
“Adios! Amigo. The path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.”
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Another RNU piece, this time a board a short way in front of The Peace Mural by The Bogside Arists on Rossville Street in Londonderry. The line describing the outline of the dove then turns into an oak leaf, which is a symbol of the city. The piece was recreated in Washington, D.C., in 2007 (image 30 in this set).
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X00998 RNU supports the pow’s pows in maghaberry and portlaoise gaol t. taylor e. mcloone m. mcloone c. nash d. doyle e. cassidy m. kerr d. mcfadden a. deery p. o’donnell republican network for unity
A small RNU (Republican Network for Unity, a dissident (political) group) mural and ONH (Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann, a faction of the Real IRA) stencil below the advertising hoarding at the corner of Northumberland Street and the International Wall on Divis Street.
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Friday March 8th was International Women’s Day, 2013. Here is a board for the event in 2011, still visible in the Bogside, Derry/.
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X01001 100 years of struggle we haven’t gone away you know, p.r.a.m.s. positive relations amongst mothers
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