“SF/Sellouts” and “RUC/PSNI – same game, different name”. Graffiti’d equivalences in Spencer Street, Derry.
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Same Game, Different Name
graffiti/writing
UDA Tour Buses
“WBTA/Travel Ireland Coaches load UDA tour buses – scum” (or possibly, ” … UDA scum tour buses”). “WBTA” = West Belfast Taxi Association (taxitrax)
Please get in touch if you know what this piece of St James’s Park graffiti refers to.
M07521
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Éirígí Supports Palestine POWs
Graffiti as a quick replacement on the Éirígí spot on the wall at the former Andersonstown RUC barracks. The green lettering underneath was for the election (see M06719) which was initially covered over with Brendan Lillis posters (X00520).
M07515
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RIP Gaddafi
Having ruled Libya since deposing the Senussi regime in 1969, Muammar Gaddafi was himself captured and killed by rebels on October 20th, 2011. He is remembered in this minor piece of Meenan Square, Derry, graffiti for providing the IRA with weapons and cash during the Troubles (WP | Middle East Eye).
Support for ETA (“ETA rule”) and Hamas can also be seen. “BRY” is Bogside Republican Youth.
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We’ll Not Be Mastered By No Rebel Basterds
Here is a gallery of 27 images from loyal Mullaghglass, on the outskirts of Newry. In addition to Union Flags, Ulster Banners, and UVF/RHC emblems, we see a number of PAF [Protestant Action Force] emblems, the South Down Defenders flute band, and a portrait of QEII.
Armagh Road, Newry.
[M07378] M07379 M07380 [M07381] M07382 M07383 M07384 [M07385] M07389 [M07390] M07391 [M07392] M07393 [M07394] M07395 [M07396] M07397 [M07398] M07399
M07368 [M07369] [M07370] M07371 [M07372] M07373 M07374 [M07375] M07376 [M07377]
[M07400] [M07401] M07402 [M07403] [M07404] M07405 [M07406] [M07407] [M07408] M07409 M07410 [M07411] [M07412] [M07413] M07414 M07415 [M07416] [M07417] [M07418] M07419 M07420 M07421 M07422 [M07423] [M07424] M07425 [M07426] [M07427]
Copyright © 2011 Peter Moloney
BRAG
Mention of BRAG dates back to a 2009 threat made against traffic wardens and TV license inspectors (RN | BBC). The graffiti read “Bogside Republican Action Group”, “Beir bua”, “End sectarian marches now!” (with a petrol bomb “PB”). The last is perhaps a reference to the on-going contention over marches past the Ardoyne shops in Belfast (Guardian).
See previously: BRY-IRA
Bogside shops, Lecky Road/Meenan Square, Derry
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Support The POWs
This is the ‘Nebula’ version of Free Derry Corner taken over by a republican protest to “Support the POWs”.
“Thatcher 81 – Ford 2011” refers to Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister at the time of the second hunger strike and David Ford, NI Justice Minister at the time of the campaigns to free Marian Price and Brendan Lillis (BBC).
M07285 M077284 [M07286] [M07287]
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Release Brendan Lillis
“Release Brendan Lillis – don’t let him die” on the walls of Derry and Free Derry Corner. Originally convicted in 1977 on explosives charges, Lillis’s license was revoked in 2009 on charges of plotting a kidnapping and bank heist (BBC). He would be released in August on compassionate grounds (BBC | BelTel).
Copyright © 2011 Peter Moloney
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Fuck Da Ra
“Fuck da ‘RA – Up da ‘gers”, “Fuck all taigs”, “Fuck the pope”, “UDA”, and “UTH”.
Graffiti in Rathbeg Drive, Limavady.
M06961 M06962 M06963 M06964
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Free Marian Price
These are the first appearances of “free Marian Price” in the Peter Moloney collection of murals. Graffiti, posters, and murals calling for her release would become widespread over the next two years. As a member of the IRA, Price was jailed for the Old Bailey bombing in 1973, and her post-Agreement license was revoked in May, 2011, when she was charged, as a member of the Real IRA, in connection with the Massereene Barracks shooting of 2009 – she was sent to Maghaberry.
Nailor’s Row, Gartan Sq, two from Eastway, two from Central Drive (Creggan), and one (taken in November) from Kildrum Gardens, Derry.
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