Impacting
The 12 murals that adorn the houses on Rossville St. are commonly known as the "People's Gallery". The murals were done by Tom Kelly, Will Kelly, and Kevin Hasson, 3 artists who experienced the worst moments of the period known as The Troubles. The murals, created largely between 1997 and 2001, pay tribute to the events that marked the Troubles: Bloody Sunday, the Motorman operation, and the hunger strike of 1981. The most striking images are: Operation Motorman, which depicts a British soldier breaking down a door; Bloody Sunday, where a group of men carry the body of Jackie Duddy, the first fatality of the day; Petrol Bomber, which shows a young man with a gas mask and a pipe bomb in hand; The Death of Innocence, which shows the figure of Annette McGavigan, 14, who died in the crossfire between the IRA and the British army.
