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Kells Walk, LONDONDERRY, BT48 9DP

Location is along the west side of Rossville Street, south of William Street. View is to the southwest. John Hume is a Derry person who campaigned for democratic rights for the oppressed Catholics of Northern Ireland. Also depicted in this mural are Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Theresa & Nelson Mandela. All four people in this mural were champions of people cast aside in most societies as having no worth. All four won the Nobel Peace Prize. As all four are considered to be bridge builders, a portion of the Brooklyn Bridge is included in the mural.

Taken from the Walls of Derry, this is Rossville Street, with Fahan Street leading up to St Eugene's Cathedral, Derry / Londonderry.

Pictured along Rossville Street

Many republican people were imprisoned in specially built prisons referred to as "H" blocks, as an aerial view of the prisons resembled the letter "H". They housed men & women. These inmates regarded themselves as political prisoners. It was announced 1980-03-26 that there would be no special category prisoners as of 1980-04-01 who could wear their own clothes and have free association within the blocks. In September, these prisoners refused to wear prison clothes and wore only their blankets as a protest. These blanket protests soon progressed into hunger strikes. The man depicted in the mural is Raymond McCartney, who is one of many prisoners at Maze Prison who endured a 53 day hunger strike from 1980-10-27 to 1980-12-18. Later on, ten men (notably Bobby Sands) lost their lives in a second hunger strike in 1981.

Many republican people were imprisoned in specially built prisons referred to as "H" blocks, as an aerial view of the prisons resembled the letter "H". They housed men & women. These inmates regarded themselves as political prisoners. It was announced 1980-03-26 that there would be no special category prisoners as of 1980-04-01 who could wear their own clothes and have free association within the blocks. In September, these prisoners refused to wear prison clothes and wore only their blankets as a protest. These blanket protests soon progressed into hunger strikes. The man depicted in the mural is Raymond McCartney, who is one of many prisoners at Maze Prison who endured a 53 day hunger strike from 1980-10-27 to 1980-12-18. Later on, ten men, notably Bobby Sands, lost their lives in a second hunger strike in 1981.

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.

Location is along the northwest side of Rossville Street, just a bit southeast of William Street. View is to the northwest from southeast side of Rossville Street. This mural is based on two major hunger strikes. The first began 1980-10-27 and ended 1980-12-18. Shown is Raymond McCartney, one of the Republican prisoners in H-Block at Maze Prison. Three women prisoners in Armagh Prison joined the strike 1980-12-01. A second hunger strike occurred in 1981 and resulted in the deaths of ten men, notably Bobby Sands.

Location is along the west side of Rossville Street just south of William Street. View is to the northeast. The dove's left wing is outlined as a scroll of the word "Peace". The right wing is outlined as an oak leaf. This mural is from the cover of a college magazine.

At this time large sections of the city walls were closed off to the public as they were occupied by the army, as can be seen by the corrugated iron above the gate. The Rossville Flats are seen here beyond the gate Image