King Billy and horse on a plain background, between a small crowned star with red hand and a large crest of the UDA.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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King Billy/UDA
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What We Have We Hold
Three images from the Fountain of the 70s and 80s, showing (in the close up) the seal of Londonderry (including skeleton) and six-pointed star with the red hand of Ulster. The wide shots also show two Ulster Banners and a Union Flag.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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Loyalist Graffiti
Here are a number of loyalist graffiti from Londonderry, with slogans such as “UVF”, “UDA”, “UFF”, “Taigs out” and “NF” (National Front) with swastika, as well as “Londonderry Not Derry” (in response to the various ‘Derry not Londonderry’ pieces in republican areas (see Derry Not Londonderry, It’s Derry Not Londonderry, Do You Live In Londonderry?, Stoop Down Low Party, and Vote SDLP For A Better Londonderry), and “For God and Ulster MYM” (“MYM” = “? Young Militants”?). The fourth image (which is from London Street) shows a contested wall, sporting both loyalist and republican (“Provos rule Derry/Doire”) phrases. There is also “FZTR” – Fountain Zulu Tartan rules.
London Street, Kennedy Place, Hawkin Street, Londonderry
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Sráıd Lıam
William Street, Derry, gets an Irish-language sign.
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I gCuımhne Agus In Onóır
“In memory and in honour” — the dead volunteer of the Derry troubles is made equivalent to the Celtic warrior of Irish mythology. Rossville Street, Derry. The list is longer than the previous version of this mural (Roll Of Honour) and than in In Proud And Loving Members Of Derry’s Dead Volunteers: Joseph Coyle, Thomas McCool, Thomas Carlin, Eamonn Lafferty, James O’Hagan, Gerry Donaghy, Colm Keenan, Eugene McGillan, John Starrs, James/Seamus Bradley, Michael Quigley, John Brady, James Carr, James McDaid, Joe/Joseph Walker, Gerard Craig, David Russell, Michael Meenan, John McDaid, Ethel Lynch, Brian (= Bernard?) Coyle, Dennis/Denis Heaney, Patrick/Patsy Duffy, George McBrearty, Charles Maguire, Eamon Bradley, Phil McDonnell, Richard Quigley, Danny Doherty, William Fleming, Ciaran Fleming, Charles English
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RUC Out
Graffiti in the Little Diamond in Derry: “RUC out”, “IRA” and (something like) “Join the Cumann na gCailini”.
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Missing Words
The AK47, halberd, and Tricolour are all that remain in 1985 of the Derry Brigade mural (shown previously from 1984) in Bishop Street, Derry.
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Belfast Says No
November 1985 saw the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which established an “inter-governmental conference” advisory body on (some) Northern Irish affairs, in which the Irish government participated. It spawned the slogans “Ulster says No” and the localized “Belfast says No”.
City Hall, Belfast
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IRA
An IRA volunteer reclines with rifle at the ready.
Rathlin Drive, Derry
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Bass Irish Cup
28 February, 1985, 9 RUC officers were killed in an IRA mortar attack on a Newry station (WP). Their deaths are celebrated in the graffiti above from Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, which reports the deaths as though a score from the (then) Bass Irish Cup.
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