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Cross back to the right side of the street (now Lecky Road) to see Bloody Sunday,
in which a small group of men carry a body from that ill-fated march. It's based on a fam-
ous photo of Father Edward Daly that was taken that terrible day. Hunched over, he waves
a white handkerchief to request safe passage in order to evacuate a mortally wounded pro-
tester. The bloodstained civil rights banner was inserted under the soldier's feet for ex-
tra emphasis. After Bloody Sunday, the previously marginal IRA suddenly found itself
swamped with bitterly determined young recruits.
Near it is a mural called Bernadette. The woman with the megaphone is Bernadette
Devlin McAliskey, an outspoken civil rights leader, who at age 21 became the youngest
elected member of British Parliament. Behind her kneels a female supporter, banging a
trash-can lid against the street inatraditional expression ofprotest inNationalist neighbor-
hoods. Trash-can lids were also used to warn neighbors of the approach of British patrols.
Petrol Bomber, showing a teen wearing an army-surplus gas mask, captures the
Battle of the Bogside, when locals barricaded their community, effectively shutting out
British rule. Though the main figure's face is obscured by the mask, his body clearly com-
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