“Siege heroes trail starts here [i.e. the junction of Palace and Society streets]. The perfect guide to the history within and around the historic Walls of Londonderry. Pick up your Siege Heroes Guide inside the Memorial Hall and Discover the Trail. http://www.siegeheroestrail.com”
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UVF insignia with four flags: St Andrew’s Saltire, UVF flag, Union Flag, and Ulster Banner. Seen previously in 2007.
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“To commemorate our RUC comrades killed in 8 Infantry Brigade area of responsibility in the course of the fight against terrorism 1969-2001. “We will remember them”. From all ranks 8 Infantry Brigade . Unveiled jointly by Assistant Chief Constable North Region Acc. S Kincaid, Commander 8 Infantry Brigade Brigadier PR Newton. 11 October 2001.” In St Columb’s Cathedral, Londonderry.
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“This has always expressed its soul in verse. ‘Derry mine! My small oak grove/Little cell, my home, my love!’ – Attributed to St Colmcille. The saint’s story is told as St Columb in the Cathedral and as St Colmcille in the Long Tower Church.
‘The purple headed mountains/The river running by/The sunset and the morning/That brightens up the sky.” – Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander. The 19th century hymn writer was inspired by the view of the Creggan Hills.
‘My heart beseiged by anger, my mind a gap of danger/I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled/And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter/Till its oak would sprout in Derry where the thirteen men lay dead.” – Seamus Heaney. The poet expressed his reaction to the events of Bloody Sunday, 30th January, 1972, in ‘The Road To Derry’.
‘But when I’ve returned oh my eyes how they burned/To see how a town could be brought to its kneesBy the armoured cars and the bombed out bars/And the gas that hangs on to every breeze/
Now an army’s installed by the old gasyard wall/And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher/With their tanks and their guns Oh my God, what have they done/To the town I loved so well.’ – Phil Coulter ‘The Town I Loved So Well’. The singer-songwriter summed up how many people felt during the Troubles.”
Double Bastion, Walls Of Derry
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The outline of a CIRA gunman in Victoria Street, Lurgan.
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“Sinn Fein [Féin] Political Wing Of RUC”, “Free Kilwikilie”, “Free all POWs”, “KRY” [Kilwilkie Republican Youth], “Republican Network For Unity”, in Levin Road, Lurgan.
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“Free the people – north Armagh selective inter[n]ment – trial by media”, “KRY” [Kilwilkie Republican Youth]. Graffiti over an old mural of the Long Kesh watch-towers. Levin Road, Lurgan.
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“PSNI Beware – Sniper at work” – an old IRA meme is revived for the post-peace era.
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“CIRA” (continuity) is converted to “PIRA” (provisional) and “RSF” becomes “SF” in a war of letters among Kilwilkie republicans, including the Republican Network For Unity. Levin Road, Lurgan.
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A large “H” on Levin Road, Lurgan, that serves as a noticeboard, here for Kilwilkie Republican Youth and the 2009 campaign to ‘Oppose Armed Forces Day‘.
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