London-/Derry

The Bogside

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The Bogside Artists’ ‘The Death Of Innocence’ at the bottom of Westland Street in Derry. The mural features Annette McGavigan, who died on September 6th, 1971, at age 14, shot by a British Army soldier. The mural is three storeys high; its height can be judged in comparison with the pedestrian walking below it. Above the mural, the streets of the bogside stand row upon row.

In the video below, one of the artists, Kevin Hasson discusses the mural, including the later alterations to the coloured butterfly and the broken rifle. The original version can be seen in M02053.

See also the Visual History page on The People’s Gallery.

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Free Palestine

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2013-03-06 FreePalestine+

Exterior of the Museum Of Free Derry, featuring a Palestine mural, and a Civil Rights mural in the top left. Next to the coloured Guernica and a Latuff line-drawing.

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Spirit Of Freedom

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This is a 2011 mural in the Bogside of Derry/Doıre featuring republican hunger-strikers (the ten who died in the Maze, along with Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan, who died in English prisons in the 70s), along with an oak leaf symbolizing the city of Derry. Chains, rather than a Celtic knot-work, serve as a frame for the main mural.

A close-up of the piece to the left, which “is dedicated to all those who tragically died on the streets of Derry during the hunger strike era” and features head-shots of various Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann volunteers, can be found below.

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Breaking The Boom

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2013-02-14 BreakingBoom+

The mural of the Mountjoy, taking part in the Breaking of the Boom that ended the Siege of Derry in 1689, has seen better days, in part because of the replacement of the original two-line street sign with a modern single-line one which does not fit into the mural.

Roulston Avenue, Waterside, Londonderry.

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Killing With Impunity

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Line drawing in Derry/Doıre by Carlos Latuff showing an army soldier, with “impunity” across his shoulders, taking aim at a blind-folded woman, representing martyrs’ families.

Latuff is a Brazilian political cartoonist (web site). This piece is outside the Free Museum of Derry (pictures of the piece in progress). Just out of shot (to the right) is an actual bullet-hole from Bloody Sunday. He also added a drawing to Free Derry corner (M08306). On the same visit (July 2012), he worked in Belfast on a mural expressing solidarity between Palestinian and republican POWs and also did a line drawing on a café wall. (See also: Latuff cartoon used in a flyer for a rally to End Impunity.)

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The Culture Wars

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“IRA” daubed on a wall in The Fountain, Londonderry, painted over with an impromptu and almost colourless Union jack that also looks like an asterisk.

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Lest We Forget

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A mural in Emerson Street, Londonderry, featuring UFF/UDA volunteer Cecil McKnight and additionally naming Lindsay Mooney, Ray Smallwoods, Gary Lynch, Ben Redfern, and William Campbell. McKnight is shown standing in front of a mural in the adjacent Bond’s place circa 1990 (facing the Trooper mural). The Londonderry crest (left of centre, over McKnight’s right shoulder,) is featured in the mural in Vita, Veritas, Victoria.

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John Hume & Friends

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“A Tribute to John Hume” by the Bogside Artists. Nobel peace prize-winners John Hume (1988), Martin Luther King, Jr (1964), Nelson Mandela (1993), (the Derry bridge,) and Mother Teresa (1979).

Hume was awarded the prize jointly with David Trimble, and Mandela with F. W. de Clerk. The 94 year-old Mandela is currently (April 2013) in hospital with pneumonia.

Rossville Street and the rear of Glenfada Park, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

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33 Lecky Road

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2013-03-07 FreeDerry+

“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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Food & Drink

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2013-03-08 GodfatherGuinness+

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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