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municates the resolve of an oppressed people. In the background, the long-gone Rossville
Flats housing project still looms, with an Irish tricolor flag flying from its top.
In
The Death of Innocence,
a young girl stands in front of bomb wreckage. She is
Annette McGavigan, a 14-year-old who was killed on this corner by crossfire in 1971. She
was the 100th fatality of the Troubles, which eventually took more than 3,000 lives (and
she was also a cousin ofone ofthe artists). The broken gunbeside her points to the ground,
signifying that it's no longer being wielded. The large butterfly above her shoulder sym-
bolizes the hope for peace. For years, the artists left the butterfly an empty silhouette until
they felt confident that the peace process had succeeded. They finally filled in the butterfly
with optimistic colors in the summer of 2006.
