Emblems of the Royal Irish Regiment, Ulster Defence Regiment, Royal Irish Rangers, and the Royal Irish Fusiliers, on the side of the (empty) pub at the junction of Malvern Street and Shankill Road.
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Rangers Football Club, founded in 1873, has its home in Glasgow, Scotland but has a large following among Northern Irish Protestants.
Union Street, Portadown
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Graffiti on the loyalist side of the “peace” wall between (nationalist) Obins Street and loyalist Edgarstown, from right to left along Corcrain Road into Charles Street. “KAT” [Kill all Taigs] “REM 96” [Drumcree?], “UFF”, “Free Mad Dog” [Johnny Adair], “ATAT” [All Taigs are targets], “REM the rat pack – we’re back” [LVF], “UFF C Coy UYM”, “LVF”, “FTP” [Fuck the pope], “No pope”.
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This memorial garden is in Glandore Terrace, Portadown. Joey Neill of the UVF was killed by a premature bomb explosion. Harris Boyle was one of the two UDR/UVF men killed while planting a bomb on the van of the Miami Showband. Derek McFarland died in prison. Richard Jameson was a UVF volunteer killed in the feud with the LVF. LVF leader Billy Wright was killed by the INLA inside the Maze. Mark Fulton, also of the LVF, was found hanged in his Maghaberry cell.
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This ‘History Of The Bann River Bridge’ describes the difficulty in maintaining a bridge, until the present granite bridge in 1833, which was built on dry land and the river then diverted under it (see image below from the Sprott Collection). The plaque notes the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when about 100 Protestants were forced into the water and died (WP).
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A mural to Manchester United and Northern Ireland soccer star George Best replaces a Billy Wright mural (J0320; see also this BBC article for tensions centered on the mural) in Brownstown Road, Portadown. With the URL www.georgebest.com
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Harris Boyle and Wesley Somerville were UDR soldiers and UVF volunteers. They were “killed in action” when the bomb they were planting on the minibus of the Miami Showband went off prematurely. Of the pair, only Somerville’s arm with its “UVF Portadown” tattoo remained identifiable (WP). The plaque is in Princess Way/Gloucester Avenue, Portadown.
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Small boards in the Killicomaine estate in Portadown, on Princess Way and Granville Road. The red hand in barbed wire symbolises loyalist prisoners. (There was another Union Flag board in Gilford Road.)
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“Killycomaine Young Loyalists” graffiti in Ulsterville Park, Portadown.
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The fast-food shop on Albertbridge Road, Belfast, asks “Are you man enough to tackle a George Best burger?”
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