Derry-Londonderry

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Northern Ireland is a pretty crazy place. It's Ireland but its not part of the Republic of Ireland but the people are Irish but but butbut... Yea, it's weird. I walked around all the different previously impoverished areas where people were regularily shot and took pictures like I was taking pictures of the Pantheon. Everyone says "The Troubles" are over now but I felt really uncomfortable walking around these areas. You just know the history behind it all and its very creepy. And some of the murals are just completely ridiculous. I was just in a pub and there was a sticker that read "don't support Israel". I think it was a subtle (or not so subtle?) way of saying who and what they believed in. I'm headed to Belfast tomorrow. I'll get to see even more murals and things.

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Photos

Graffiti
Green and Orange side

Free Derry
Bogside

Bloody Sunday
Bogside Mural

Memorial
for those who perished during the 1981 hunger strike

Bogside Murals
Republican side

Bogside Murals
Common Causes

Bogside Murals
Side of the Bogside Artists Gallery

On the other side
Loyalist territory

Union
Loyalist territory

Graffiti
Red and Blue side

Peace
Erected to symbolize peace

Bond Street Murals
Creepy as f*ck mural on the Protestant side of the river (and the Queen in the background)