These four images are all from Ross House at the entrance to Mount Vernon. They show a UVF gunman (slipping behind a security camera), a tiger mascot, YCV and UVF emblems, and graffiti at the front of the building.
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The 36th (Ulster) Division, formed from the Ulster Volunteers, went “over the top” at the Battle of the Somme on July 1st, 1916, losing about 5,500 men. They are mourned in this Mount Vernon arch by a soldier from the period. The “2005” date on the right, and the graveside mourner in modern UVF fatigues are intended to link the Ulster Volunteers with the UVF.
See similarly 1912-2002 in Carrickfergus.
In the background is (the second) “Prepared for peace, ready for war” mural.
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After the row of houses on which it originally appeared was knocked down, the mural to the North Belfast UVF/YCV/PAF [Protestant Action Force] “Prepared for peace, ready for war”, with its two hooded gunmen, was moved up on the hill, at eye-level with the motorway roundabout c. 2001.
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The Tiger’s Bay tiger is flanked by two UFF gunmen in balaclavas and bomber jackets.
Cultra Street, north Belfast
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Tiger’s Bay First Flute, “Est 1983” but apparently defunct by this time. In the style of the UDA emblem. For two of those listed on the side wall, see Bacon and Baird. T[ommy] English was killed by the UVF in 2000.
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The Mount Inn arch includes crests of the four nations and of the UDA, and the Tiger’s Bay tiger.
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This UDA mural includes balaclava’d volunteers in both active and funereal stances.
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This is the office of UUP MLA (and, beginning in 2007, Minister For Health) Michael McGimpsey on Sany Row, just above the John McMichael Prisoners Enterprise Centre.
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“This monument has been re-dedicated by the people of Twinbrook and Poleglass in honour of those volunteers of Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann who gave their lives for Irish freedom.” Gerard Fennell, John Rooney, Bobby Sands, Frankie Ryan. “Fuaır sıad bás ar son saoırse na hÉıreann”. “[Like the lark,] I too have fought for my freedom not only in captivity [where I now languish] but also [while on the] outside where my country is held captive … I have the spirit of freedom that cannot be quenched.” (Bobby Sands, The Lark And The Freedom Fighter, 1979)
The final image is of the adjacent hunger strikers stone. It will later be moved and repositioned inside the (extended) fencing.
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