Thatcher – peter moloney collection

End Siege Of Short Strand

2003-02-212017-12-31Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Short Strand is a Catholic enclave of about 1,000 people in Protestant east Belfast. Throughout 2001 and 2002, the interface saw gun battles and rioting between the two factions. Here is a Guardian account of events in 2002. Above is a rejection of the new PSNI “There are many reasons for not joining the PSNI – this is just one” with a series of wanted posters (seen Collusion! Collusion! and Collusion Is State Murder plus one of Patrick Mayhew). Both parts by Ógra Shinn Féin. Divis Street, Belfast.

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Funeral Volley

2002-03-032017-10-19Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is the scene in Clowney Street, Belfast, in 2002: the (third? version of the) phoenix mural is 12 years old, and the funeral volley mural above it (seen in 2001) has lost one of its boards.

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The People Arose In 69

1990-02-012016-12-03Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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This 1990 image of the Clowney Street phoenix shows (compared to the 1981 and 1987 versions) that the four provinces have been painted out, perhaps in preparation for repainting, as they would be added again later.

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Wanted! For Murder

1989-02-102016-10-27Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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British Prime Minister M[argaret] Thatcher is presumed guilty of murder and faces death by hanging from a noose. Ballycolman, Strabane

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A Traitor And A Murderess

1989-02-092017-12-03Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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“[The] Anglo-Irish Agreement proved one to be a traitor, the other the murderess she is.” The portraits are presumably of Margaret Thatcher and Garrett FitzGerald, who signed the agreement at Hillsborough Castle in November, 1985, though it is difficult to tell them apart – which is perhaps the point. A good picture of the pair can be found at the top of this Guardian article on the crafting of the document. This is the fifth (extreme right) of five murals on a wall in Ballycolman estate, Strabane.

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Stad Maggie Anois

1987-02-062016-10-08Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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Here is a faded and vandalised version (with “PIRA suck shit”) of 1986’s Stad Maggie Anois. Beechmount Avenue.

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Stad Maggie Anois

1986-01-112020-01-07Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A hand with tricoloured cuff attempts to stop one with a Union flag from taking the six counties from the rest of the island. The plural imperative would be “stadaigí”. Based on a Cormac cartoon. Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.

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1916-1982/Break Thatcher’s Back

1982-02-132016-06-18Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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Here is a 1982 image of the Break Thatcher’s Back mural in Rockmore Road, Belfast, showing a blanket man with outstretched arms demanding “status now”, framed by a large “H” and surrounded by barbed wire, Tricolours, and the Starry Plough. In 1981, there was a Sean O’Casey quote on the left, rather than a lily and the year of the Easter Rising — 1916.

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Get The Brits Out!

1982-01-302016-06-08Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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The scottish head of Britain has taken the form of Margaret Thatcher, who is biting on the north Antrim coast and trying to grab the island for herself. Rossville Street, Derry

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Revolution INLA

1981-04-042016-05-15Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

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The red star and the hammer-and-sickle make an appearance alongside the Tricolour, Starry Plough, a fist grasping barbed wire, and the names of four hunger-strikers: B. Sands, P. O’Hara, R. McCreesh, F. Hughes. unknown street, Belfast

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