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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Here is another piece of graffiti in response to the death of Margaret Thatcher, outside the Royal Victoria hospital on the Falls Road: “Iron Lady? Rust In Peace”, with “Upara” – Up The (I)RA. Thatcher was given the sobriquet by the Soviet army newspaper Red Starin 1976, apparently in imitation of the “Iron Chancellor”, Otto von Bismarck (WP).
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Reaction to the death (on Monday, April 8th) of Margaret Thatcher, U.K. Prime Minister 1979-1990 (WP), in an alley below Divis flats, between Divis Street and Clonfaddan Crescent.
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A tarp has been added to the Ardoyne memorial garden (seen previously in 2008) putting the 12 deceased hunger strikers from the modern Troubles alongside those who were executed for their part in the Easter Rising.
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, Belfast
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New union flags fly on Bridge Street as it crosses the river Bann in Portadown, looking towards the northeast.
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“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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“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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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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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
This is the sixth mural by the Bogside Artists, commemorating the hunger strike. The main figure is Raymond McCartney, shown after 53 days on hunger strike in 1980; the female figure is perhaps Mary Doyle (the other two female strikers were Maıréad Farrell and Maıréad Nugent).
Visual History page for the Bogside Artists.
Rossville Street, Derry
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