More precisely, UFF/UDA Taughmonagh. Finnis Drive, in south Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04432
Loyalist Taughmonagh
Author: Extramural Activity
Ross’s Linen Mill Workers
William Ross’s linen mill was established in 1802 in Clonard and had 15,000 spindles (Irish Linen Mills). It is now a building of 150 apartments (Fleckimet). Perhaps by Margaret McCann and Deborah Hamilton, who did a similar board in Thames Street featuring Conway Mill.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04431
Life In Beechmount
Scenes from years gone by in the Beechmount area: Patsy Crawford gas lamp lighter, St Mary’s PS, Jack Garland featherweight champion Ireland, a building in Cavendish St (at Harrogate St), St Paul’s, the Beehive, Broadway cinema, Kennedy’s bakery, Meleady’s, Broadway church, St Dominic’s girls, Mr Smyth shoemaker.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04430
Beechmount Óglaıgh
The memorial garden in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, goes beyond commemoration of IRA volunteers. Moving clockwise: dying volunteer, “local men and women and POWs”, hunger strikers, comhaltaí Shınn Féın, proclamation, na hÓglaıgh, “innocent people from the area”, “the unsung heroes off [sic] this area”, Sands quote.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04423 M04425 [M04426] M04424 [M04427] [M04428] [M04422] [M04429] [M04421] M04414 M04420 M04418 [M04419] M04416 [M04417] M04415
Wolfe Tone In
Wolfe Tone replaces “Sinn Fein [sic] Out” graffiti below the sign for the Republican Museum on the “International Wall”,
Divis Street, Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04460
Taxi Trax
The WBTA mural (on the International Wall (Visual History) is quickly repainted, with the central mural of the Easter Rising replaced with a gable-end version of a small (1981) mural in Rockdale St (long gone by 2008; in fact, none of the three murals depicted is extant in 2008 and none existed in the form shown).
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04459
Fountain Bonfire
The Fountain bonfire for 2008 includes a Tricolour and Celtic flags, and a Sınn Féın electoral poster. There’s also a children’s bonfire. See also: 2007’s bonfire.
For the mural in the background, see British Ulster Alliance.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04458 [M04457] M04456 [M04554]
Vita Veritas Victoria
“Life, Truth, Victory.” Londonderry city’s coat of arms is displayed on (what is now) Heritage Tower Museum (previously Derry Gaol), including a skeleton (WP). In the top part is the flag of the city of London.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04455
The Williamite Campaign
Scenes from the Siege Of Derry and Battle Of The Boyne in the Fountain, Londonderry: Captain Browning of the Mountjoy being shot as goods were unloaded from his ship, the beseiged lamenting over a dead comrade, The battle of the Boyne, battle scene, Willian King Memorial Flute Band, Siege of Derry. The area was photographed previously in 2002, 2006, and 2007.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04449
Fountain Model
It’s not clear what this model in the Fountain is of. The nearby St Columb’s Cathedral has a single spire rather than a large turret. Please comment if you can shed any light.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
M04448
Peter Moloney Collection 