“Londonderry West Bank Loyalists Still Under Siege. No Surrender.”
Two images of a mural/lettering in the Fountain area on London-/Derry/Doire’s west bank of the Foyle – the larger Unionist population is in the Waterside on the east side of the river – taken through a hole in the walls of old city of Derry.
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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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A “North Antrim and Londonderry” Ulster Defence Union shield on a black oval, in Pine Street in the loyalist Waterside area of Londonderry.
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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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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
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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WBLY (West Bank Loyalist Youth? – leave a comment if you can confirm) and a red hand on a wall in The Fountain in Londonderry.
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A partly commercial, partly political, mural on the Abercorn Bar, Abercorn Road, London-/Derry/Doire. The figures with outstretched hands are a copy of Maurice Harron’s ‘Hands of Peace’ statue, which is at the roundabout roughly 250m away (where the bridge in the picture lands on the city-side of the Foyle river; the location of the pub is up the hill to the left). He has made a great deal of other interesting work too – check out the video of him at work on his web site.
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One form of response Israel makes to Palestinian rocket attacks is to close the border with Gaza, most recently on February 26th (NYTimes).
On the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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As a member of the IRA, Price was jailed for the Old Bailey bombing in 1973, and her post-Agreement license was revoked in May, 2011, when she was charged, as a member of the Real IRA, in connection with the Massereene Barracks shooting of 2009 – she was sent to Maghaberry. IRPWA graffiti in Gartan Square, and at the Eastway roundabout, Derry.
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