Wear A Green Ribbon
“Wear a green ribbon to free POWs” with another green ribbon cradling an Easter lily. In the top right, a swastika is thrown into a “Brits out” bin. Lecky Road, Derry M01162 Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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“Hawks” & Doves
Introduction In politics, those who want to go to war are called “hawks” while those who pursue diplomacy are “doves”. (The terminology goes back to the War of 1812 between the USA and Britain – JSTOR Daily – or to the…
Free Derry Corner
Location In 1969, 33 Lecky Road, the last house in the row and recently abandoned by a family of three generations of McKanes, had a gable wall overlooking a piece of vacant ground known then as Kitty Kane’s Corner (after…
Visual History 07 – Ceasefire (1994-1996)
Introduction John Hume of the SDLP and Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin had been in communication since the late 1980s, facilitated by Father Alec Reid, who also served as an intermediary with the Irish government. In late 1993, the British…
Maghaberry Concentration Camp
“End forced strip searches, end internment [at] Maghaberry concentration camp”. Republican prisoners are held in the Roe House at Maghaberry. Several republican prisoners (as many as five) are conducting a “dirty protest” in response to conditions and treatment, including integration…
Release The Prisoners
This Hillborough Drive stencil dates back to the ceasefire and the Agreement, when the release of political prisoners was a prominent issue in negotiations on both sides. Republicans had a “green ribbon” campaign; loyalists used the the stencil shown here,…
Honour Ireland’s Dead
“Wear an Easter lily – i gcuimhne ar an stailc ocrais.” The title phrase and the lily are typically used in calls to remember the rebels of 1916 (see e.g. the mural this one replaces) but here it is (also)…
End Brit Brutality
“End Brit butality [in] Maghaberry” with green ribbons, the symbol of political prisoners during the ceasefire and Agreement. Eastway, Derry. M06208 Copyright © 2010 Peter Moloney
Saoirse
A vintage nail-up from the ‘green ribbon’ campaign (from the period between the ceasefire and the Agreement) still standing in Kiln Street, Newry. M06020 Copyright © 2010 Peter Moloney
Support Our POWs
A vintage green ribbon “support our POWs” flag flying on the Whitrock Road, Belfast, in 2010. M05607 Copyright © 2010 Peter Moloney
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