London-/Derry

Operation Motorman

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2013-06-03 BradleyWide+

Below is a close-up of the information board on Seamus Bradley, a 19 year-old IRA member who was killed during Operation Motorman, the British Army’s retaking of ‘Free Derry’ on July 31st, 1972. Bradley was found to be unarmed and bled to death while in British custody (according to the Pat Finucane Centre). The letter in the display case is addressed to Bradley’s brother, Daniel, from the MoD, and concludes “I regret to inform you … that there is nothing in the circumstances of his death, as detailed in the [Historical Enquiries Team] report, which would make it appropriate for the Government to apologise.”

The plaque is to Patrick Shiels (M03583).

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Justice For Scumbags

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The reference here is perhaps punishment beatings and shootings for anti-social behaviour.

William St, Derry

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Jon Clifford

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Jon “Ugg” Clifford died in 2011, having founded Tristar Boys FC (web) in 1974. Bull Park in Creggan has been renamed in his honour and this new board mounted above the park.

(BelTel | Derry Journal)

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The Walled City Marathon

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“You are now entering the final stage of the walled city marathon 2013″. Free Derry Corner is partially covered with a tarp for the marathon.

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Stop Domestic, Sexual & State Violence

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“1 in every 4 women will experience violence in their lifetime. Stop domestic, sexual & state violence.” On the rear of Free Derry Corner.

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Vibrant

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2013-03-08 Vibrant+

A no longer vibrant “vibrant” — one of the alternating panels of images and single words on the Eastway in the upper Bogside in Derry. Below are “Resilient”, “Community Pride” (modified to become “Community Ride”), “Revival”, and “Creativity”.

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BRY Board

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2013-03-07 BRY+

A fairly crude painting on a piece of board on a wall in the Bogside showing an Ulster flag (the board is a light yellow and there is no crown above the red hand) and an Armalite rifle. (Previously from the same area: BRAGging | Painting The Town)

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Painting The Town

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2013-03-07 BRYTricolour+

An electrical box and light-post painted in the colours of the Irish tricolour by dissident republicans in the Bogside in Derry. “BRY” is “Bogside Republican Youth”

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BRAGging

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2013-03-07 BRYGraffiti+

Dissident republican graffiti, done with a marker, in the area around the Bogside Inn, at the bottom of Westland Street, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

On the left-hand side we have “INLA” and a five-pointed star, a flag (featuring a sunburst and the plough in the stars), “F T PSNI”, “SS RUC” on a tricolour, “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) and “BRAG” (Bogside Republican Action Group) and “we fear no loyalists”.

On the right-hand side we have “Free Gaza”, “Hamas” with Palestinian and Irish flags, “BRY” and starry plough and tricolour, “Fuck Sınn Féın sellouts” and “ONH” (Óglaıgh na hÉıreann).

See previously: BRAG

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