Derry - Bogside - The Rioter (Saturday Matinee) Mural
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Derry - Bogside - The Rioter (Saturday Matinee) Mural
Image: © Joseph Mischyshyn Taken: 24 Sep 2013
Location is along the west side of Rossville Street, just south of the Hunger Striker Mural and southeast of the Museum of Free Derry. View is to the north. Early in the days of Free Derry, school children would gather, on Saturdays & school holidays, at the Rossville Street entrance to The Bogside and engage in rioting with the police & army. Locals referred to this rioting as the Saturday matinee. The boy in the mural is holding a window grrill with mesh that would protect him from rubber or plastic bullets normally used by security forces, but not from the CS gas that they used. This mural reminds one of a lone man facing a convoy of tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.997793
Longitude
-7.324808