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Maghaberry Torture Camp

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02822 2015-08-24 MaghaberryTortureCamp+

Here are three boards in Derry focused on HMP Maghaberry. The high security prison holds 1,000 prisoners and segregates loyalists and republicans, a situation described as “a festering sore” in a recent inspection. (Tele) Republicans say that the current crisis overlooks existing issues such as controlled movement and strip searches. (Irish News)

02821 2015-08-24 MaghaberryDurrow+

02819 2015-08-24 JFPoliticalPrisonersLecky+

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X02822 X02821 X02819 justice for political prisoners end forced strip search  in defence of the nation 32 county sovereignty movement IRPWA irish republican prisoner welfare association barbed wire

The Bonfire Watchers

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02806 2015-08-24 BogsideBonfireWatchers+

The crew whiles away the hours sitting atop a Bogside stairwell, with IRA-emblazoned tricolour fluttering overhead, keeping an eye on a heap of bonfire wood. Below: another tricolour in the same area, with “Brits out now – IRA” board beneath.

02807 2015-08-24 BritsOutNowIRATricolour+

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Foyle Daycare

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02825 2015-08-24 OrangeSeigeFoyleDaycare+

The “Little Blooms” receive a lecture in history and politics each day as they mount the painted kerb-stones and take in a mural of Orange Order flag-bearers and a scene from the Siege of Derry, perhaps of James II demanding the city and being rebuffed with cries of “No surrender”.

02824 2015-08-24 OrangeSeige+

02826 2015-08-24 OrangeSeigeWide+

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X02825 X02824 X02826 painted 2015-06 walls gate Londonderry siege william union jack ulster banner bishop’s gate 18 april 1869 west bank loyalists still under siege

The Way We Were

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02961 2015-08-24 TheWayWeWere+

“The way we were” written on the bog side of the walls of Derry provide a name for this mural behind Derry’s Bogside Inn. The old Rossville flats are in the top left hand corner. (Both Rossville flats and graffiti on the walls – “God made the Catholics, the armalite made us equal” – can be seen in this 1982 image (M00039) from Peter Moloney’s collection.)

In the lower right-hand corner is a “Free Gaza” board that was on the back of Free Derry Corner.

In the lower left-hand corner is a picture of the second version of the “You are now entering Free Derry” writing on the gable wall of 33 Lecky Road.

02828 2015-08-24 TheWayWeWereSide+

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X02961 X02828 fuck all hoods INLA IRA BRY irish national liberation army bogside republican youth

They Shall Not Pass

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02962 2015-08-23 RunnerNoPasarancrop+

“No pasarán” is Spanish for “they shall not pass”, a phrase used by the Communists and Republicans as they tried (unsuccessfully) to defend the city of Madrid during the Spanish civil war. The board in front commemorates “those from this area who left Ireland to fight against Fascism during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1938”.

“The Runner” in the background mural (part of The People’s Gallery) is also having trouble holding his ground in the (repainted) famous Bogside Artists’ (web) work intended “to be a cautionary reminder to the young of the dangers inherent in civil conflict”. (CAIN)

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X02962 rossville st Manus Deery Charles Love Patrick Walsh Thomas traynor john murphy benjamin frederick murray eamon mcgrotty george gorman jack flynn james donald peadar o’donnell james campbell hugh o’donnell paddy o’daire joseph kelly paddy roe mclaughlin francis william vincent o’donnell brian goold-verschoyle paddy glacken phil boyle hugh bonner herbert pollock charles mcguinness william mcchrystal joe boyd irsp teach na faılte irsp.ie tear gas

We Had Our Distresses

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02802 2015-08-23 EasterLeckyUnderpass+

Today’s post is an assortment of republican posters, many of them in distressed condition, book-ended by the 1916 Societies’ Easter Parade posters from 2015 and 2016.

03653 2016-07-07 Tony Taylor poster+

03140 2015-10-19 Free Newry 10+

03444 2016-05-10 Unfinished Revolution d+

03462 2016-05-12 Torn Poster+

03617 2016-07-03 Stormont Abuse poster Sands+

03618 2016-07-03 Stormont Abuse poster Tone+

03619 2016-07-03 Easter Monday poster+

03613 2016-07-03 1916 Societies poster+

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X02802 X03140 X03444 X03462 X03617 X03618 X03619 X03613 lecky rd westland st beechmount ave clowney st ? ? ? ? liam hannaway sean o’neill hungering for justice wolfe tone bobby sands stormont abuse of irish republican prisoners ferguson racism in the US unfinished revolution free newry 10 maghaberry http://continuitysinnfein.org/

Republican Items

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IRA volunteer (and marksman in the Irish Army) John Starrs was killed in a May 13th, 1972, gun battle with the British Army in William Street (Seachranaıdhe), near his plaque in Chamberlain Street, Derry, which is also home to Connolly House, home of the IRSP in Derry, and Junior McDaid house, home of Saoradh/IRPWA.

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X02965 active service beırıgí bua

The Grens

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02787 2015-08-20 BangorTheGrens+

A tarpaulin celebrating the North Down Grenadiers (Fb) flute band has been added above the Red Hand Commando panels on the front of this house in Bangor’s Whitehill neighbourhood. (Compare the image above to M06398.) The emblems of both groups are very similar, featuring a red hand with wings. As well as the RHC emblem on the front gate, there is also a stone on the left dedicated to D. Company volunteers.

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X02787 Audentes fortuna iuvat – fortune favors the brave at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them in memory of our fallen volunteers north down brigade D. Company lest we forget red hand wings star