Derry City is the largest and most famous soccer club in Derry, but this mural mentions four other minor teams: senior league (first division) team Ballymoor, Northwest premier division team Brandywell Celtic, senior league (premier division) teams Brandywell Harps and Bluebell Celtic.
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Óglaigh na hÉireann volunteers from the 1st battalion Derry brigade: (l-r) John McDaid, Brian Coyle, Eddie McSheffrey, Patsy Duffy, Jimmy Carr, Gerry Donaghey, Eugine [sic] McGillen [McGillan], Charles English, Jim Movine, Richard Quigley, Barney McFadden, Dennis Heaney, Colm Keenan, Pat Harkin, John Starrs, Eamon[n] Lafferty. Lecky Road, Derry.
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Sport- and community-orientated mural on Lecky Road, Derry, in the Brandywell.
“Bally Mór” perhaps refers to the local soccer club Ballymoor, and (further back) to the townland of Eudhan-Baile-Mór (Edenballymore), though this does not include the modern-day Brandywell.
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“In loving memory of Damian (Dee) Curran, killed 16th August 1996. Sadly missed by his family & friends. Our lady pray for him.” Curran was killed by a single stab wound while watching Creggan bonfire.
The plaque is near his home street of Iniscarn Crescent, Derry. A second plaque showing a portrait of Curran would be added later.
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Graffiti in Linsfort Drive, Derry, perhaps related to Terry McCafferty.
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“Boycott Israeli Goods – Free Gaza” Stencil in Beechwood Avenue, Derry.
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The Derry 4 are Gary Donnelly, Michael Gallagher, Martin O’Neill and Paddy McDaid, four members (allegedly) of the RIRA. The four are from Derry but were arrested in Donegal and tried in Dublin (BreakingNews.ie). Glen Road, Derry.
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“Vol Neil McMonagle, Derry Brigade INLA. Killed in action 2nd February 1983. “They may kill the revolutionary – but never the revolution””. The painting is in Leafair Park, Derry, close to where the unarmed McMonagle was killed by an undercover British soldier.
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For the 100th anniversary of Fianna Éireann, a memorial mural on Racecourse Road, Derry, to Fianna G. McAuley, Sloan, McCormick, Donaghy, D. McAuley, O’Riordan, Magee, Campbell, Dougal, Molloy, Comiskey, Fox, Hughes, Marley, McCrory, Alsop, Templeton, McCauley, O’Neill, McWilliams, Dempsey. The names are listed in the order of death, from earliest to latest, beginning with fifteen-year-old Gerald McAuley who was shot dead in Clonard (Belfast) in 1969, and ending with John Dempsey shot on the Falls Road (Belfast) in 1981. “Fuair siad bás ar son saoirse na hÉireann”.
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Neither the Fountain Young Defenders or the Young Loyalists seem to have existed as an organisation, just as an idea in the mind of an artists on the walls of Wapping Lane. “No surrender 09”, “UDA Fountain Wombles“.
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