“Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” – the words of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata used in an “undefeated” UDA/UFF board in Carnany Park, with hooded gunmen standing on an independent Northern Ireland-shaped Ulster Banner.
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UDA/UFF 3rd battalion (North Antrim brigade).
Carnany Drive, Ballymoney
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“For as long as one hundred of us remain alive, we shall never in any way consent to submit to the rule of the Irish. For it is not for glory we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life.” This is a modified version of the (English translation of the) Declaration of Arbroath, declaring Scotland’s independence from England. UDA North Antrim-Londonderry brigade.
Carnany Gardens, Ballymoney
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This union “flag” at the junction of Ballywatermoy and Dunminning Roads is actually a painted board.
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Scenes from the junction of the Tullgrawley, Shellinghill, Ballywatermoy, and Cladytown roads north of Ballymena and Cullybackey.
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“In glorious memory” of King William III of Orange, crossing the Boyne to defeat King James II and secure Ireland for England.
North Street, Ballymena
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UVF board on the back of the shops in the (loyalist) Irish Street area of Londonderry.
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Flags outside a house in Bann Drive, Londonderry, celebrating “The Brave Thirteen” apprentice boys who began the siege of Derry, the ship Mountjoy that ended the siege, and the city of Londonderry (“Vita, veritas, victoria”).
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Soldiers from the 36th Division go over the top at the Somme, as depicted in JP Beadle’s Attack Of The Ulster Division (belfastsomme.com).
Strule Gardens, Londonderry
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19 year-old Provisional IRA volunteer Eamonn Lafferty was “killed on active service 18th August 1971”, in a gun-battle with British Army forces who were attempting to dismantle barricades in republican “Free Derry”.
Kildrum Gardens, Derry
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