The New Lodge’s Terry McCafferty (RIRA) was given 12 years for possession of explosives in 2005. He was released briefly on license in late 2008 before being returned to Maghaberry – the reason for the revocation was not disclosed (until December 2009) leading to claims of internment. He would be released in April 2010 (RN). The board in the middle “Britain’s dirty wars – no story of glory” is otherwise unknown.
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A board (designed by Lesley Cherry with young people from the Hammer boxing clud) featuring local boxers Jimmy Warnock, Davy Larmour, and Tommy Armour, replaces the Siege Of Derry mural in the lower Shankill. With support from the Arts Council, Belfast City Council, and Lower Shankill Community Association.
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“Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close & so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Such are the places that every man, woman & child seek equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. “Nothing about us without us is for us.” Artist Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded.com) replaces the ‘Protestant Ethnic Cleansing‘ mural with one about human rights. With the Lower Shankill Community Association.
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In-progress image of a new, lighter, mural to UDA hit-man Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag.
Hopewell Crescent, Belfast
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“The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it … generation after generation – Pearl S Buck” “Adults do not perceive children as a minority group but as helpless, inexperienced, defenseless young people who need protection … This attitude must be confronted, challenged and refuted if young people are to secure their political rights. – Bob Franklin”. The info board describes the history of the wall, from Eddie to Can It Change? to the current re-imaging. Painted by Ed Reynolds. With support from the Arts Council, Belfast City Council, and the Lower Shankill Community Association.
Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, Belfast
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“The Bloody Battle, July 1809. Prince of Wales own Irish became the Royal Irish Fusiliers 1827 motto Quis Separabit.” Completed version of the 2008 in-progress The Battle Of Talavera. Hopewell Crescent, Belfast.
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This is the Orange arch next to the Pony Club in the Hammer (lower Shankill). The five boards, from left to right, show “Shankill Road Campsie Club”, the crown and bible with orange lilies, King Billy in 1690, the crown and cross of the “Royal Black Preceptory”, and the orange star between St Andrew’s Saltire and the Union Flag (see Ulster Scotland for a larger version).
Ariel Street, the Hammer/lower Shankill, west Belfast
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A mixture of modern and latter-day Ulster Volunteers: the names of WWI dead are listed on both sides, while six modern volunteers are portrayed above the central panel of soldiers in a trench. J1835 lists the men in the previous version of the mural as J. Shaw, T. Mawhinney, J. Cordner, C. Logan, S. McCrea, W. Millar.
Inniscarn Drive, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey
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“The charge of the 36th (Ulster) Division at Thiepval, 1st July 1916. By the end of the battle, five thousand five hundred Ulstermen lay dead. ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.'”
Inniscarn Drive, Rathcoole
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The Rathcoole bonfire sports a UDA flag. This is the lower (Green End) site rather than the upper (Eastway) site.
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