“REM 1690” and the battle of the Boyne. Blood drips from the red hand of Ulster (next to the Templemore Primary mural) with flags and bunting flying in the street.
Major Street, Belfast
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A vintage Young Newtown [Young Newton] UDA shield in McMaster Street, Belfast.
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In CS Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, the death of the lion Aslan ends an ice age in the kingdom of Narnia. Lewis grew up in Strandtown, east Belfast.
Painted by Dee Craig. Replaces the ‘over the top’ mural in Pansy Street.
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“This memorial commemorates the men and women who served their country in the battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1970 – 1992: 1st (County Antrim), 1st/9th (County Antrim), 2nd (County Armagh), 2nd/11th (County Armagh), 3rd (County Down), 4th (County Fermanagh), 4th/6th (County Fermanagh and County Tyrone), 5th (County Londonderry), 6th (County Tyrone), 7th (City of Belfast), 7th/10th (City of Belfast), 8th (County Tyrone), 9th (County Antrim), 10th (City of Belfast), 11th (Craigavon)”
For information about those listed on the Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th) roll of honor, see militaryimages.net.
St Anne’s Cathedral, Donegall Street, Belfast
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“Welcome to the Shankill” in ten languages, home of Norman Whiteside, Baroness May Blood, Jimmy Warnock, William Conor, Col. James Cunningham, Johnny McQuade, Wayne McCullough, and the Rev. Henry Montgomery. The attractions include Crumlin Road gaol, lower Shankill murals, Bayardo victims memorial, Carson mural, Cupar Way peace line, Shankill memorial garden, Spectrum centre, Shankill graveyard, Woodvale park. An ‘Alternatives’ stencil would later be added in the bottom right.
Gardiner Street, Belfast
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Titanic sails (impossibly) between the Giant’s Causeway (on the left) and one of the Harland & Wolff cranes (and under Napoleon’s Nose), replacing a UDA mural in Downing Street, Belfast.
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A large banner in Spier’s Place above the 90th anniversary UVF mural and the memorial to Marchant, King, and Hamilton.
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“This mural is dedicated to the fallen volunteers of No 4 Pltn A Coy 1st Belfast Battn, Ulster Volunteer Force who dutifully served this community in the years of the conflict. It pays tribute both to those who died on active engagement an to the many who passed peacefully from service having fulfilled their duties. Their names and deeds are eternally venerated by their comrades in arms who humbly serve in their honor. ‘They remained staunch to the end against odds uncounted/And fell with their faces to the foe/Their names liveth for evermore’.”
The plaque reads “In memory of our fallen comrades no. 4 platoon A coy. 1st battalion Belfast. Lest we forget.”
The mural shows a graveyard, the left half depicting the gray headstones of WWI burials – a modern volunteer joining a WWI soldier in mourning – while the right shows contemporary headstones of shiny black marble, over which a modern volunteer stands pointing his rifle. Seen previously in 2005.
Glenwood Street, Belfast
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The hoarding in “C Coy St” is removed and a new board celebrating the “Ulster Volunteer Force 1913 – West Belfast Volunteers ‘Shankill Boys'” is added above the mosaic of the 36th Division’s crest.
Carnan Street, Belfast
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2009 image of a fading UVF mural in Canmore Street (compare 2005 and 2008). “This mural is a memorial to the volunteers of ‘A’ Coy 1st Batt who served the Shankill community so bravely during the years of conflict. Gone but not forgotten. Here lies a soldier.”
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