UDA/UFF/WDA (Woodvale Defence Association) and William “Bucky” McCullough Memorial Flute Band mural, with silhouetted volunteers, images of various weapons (held in red hands), and barbed wire.
Heather Street, west Belfast.
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Dates back to at least 1987.
This mural celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Ulster Volunteers, 1912 – 1987, with a portrait of Edward Carson and a rifle mounted on the back of a car (based on a photograph from 1914).
Shankill Road (on the wall of (what is now) the PUP offices, just west of the current Bayardo memorial), west Belfast.
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“West Belfast Brigade UDA C Company”. UDA/UDF/LPA/UFF mural on the Shankill. (For a similar quartet of names and explanation of “UDF”, see Sans Peur.)
The title “First Ulster Defence Assoc.” is an attempt to tie together the defenders of Derry in 1688 (300th anniversary) with the modern Ulster Defence Association. This is an early attempt to give the UDA historical roots, beyond the Shankill and Woodvale Defence Associations. To this end, the group would adopt Cú Chulaınn (beginning in 1992 – see the Visual History page) and (beginning in 2007 – see UDU-UFF-UDA) the 1893 Ulster Defence Union as ancestors.
Canmore Street, west Belfast
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Orange Order symbols and slogans on a wall on Circular Road, Larne, such as the Union flag, the Mountjoy, the ladder, a cockerel, a goat, William on his horse, “This we maintain”, “1688 – 1690”, “No popery here”. To the left is an Orange arch. The mural dates back to 1969 at least.
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Two images of a UDA mural — armed volunteers on either side of the emblem — in progress at Carlisle Circus/Denmark Street, Belfast (confirmation of this location would be appreciated).
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Four images of graffiti in Manor Street, Belfast, beginning with an encomium to Michael Stone, the UDA volunteer who (in 1988) had killed three mourners at the funerals of the IRA’s Gibraltar Three. The last two images show that Manor Street is cut in two, with a Protestant area to the south and a Catholic area to the north.
The fence in the second image is now a wall. “UFF” “UDA” “YCV” “UYM” “SSRUC” “Black bastards” “Kill all cops” “RUC keep out”
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The UDA and UVF/YCV share a wall in Matchett Street, Belfast. In the main (UVF) panel, two hooded gunmen with rifles kneel beneath additional weapons on either side the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Orange flag and Ulster banner.
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Belfast City Hall still says “no” in 1988, but the banner is smaller and in a less prominent position than in 1985.
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IRA graffiti in Patterson’s Lane, Belfast city centre.
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“Happy birthday, comrade”. ANC leader Nelson Mandela turned 70 on July 18, 1988. He spent the day, like every birthday since 1963, in prison; he would not be released until 1990, after which apartheid would be dismantled and Mandela become the first President of South Africa. “The future belongs to you.” The colours of the ANC join the colours of the Irish Tricolour as a background to Mandela’s portrait. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly, with the help of “Sınn Féın Youth”.
Leeson Street, west Belfast
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