Remember the Alamo: watercolour, 30″x 40″

This is the cover artwork for my book, Crossing Borders. The image is accompanied by a poem Recreational Rioting and is about the macho nature of street riots in the early 1970s in Derry, N.Ireland. The riots would sometimes be suspended so that rioters could go home to watch something good on TV. In this case The Alamo, the movie starring John Wayne…