Loyalist graffiti against the police service: “PSNI Scum – Republican Puppets” on Rathmoyne House, Dunmurry.
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Republican Puppets
Area Affiliation
Private W McFadzean
Billy McFadzean won the Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery” at the Somme on July 1st, 1916, when he threw himself on a box of grenades that had fallen into the trench, with two pins becoming dislodged. The emblems of the UVF, YCV, and (modern) RHC are added.
Kinsale Park, Londonderry
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Obins St Supports Ardoyne Residents
Obins Street, Portadown, was the site of clashes over Orange parading in the mid-1980s, a decade before Drumcree/Garvaghy Road. In this graffiti, residents offer support to Ardoyne (possibly Holy Cross). Also “Free Seán Kelly“.
Obins Drive, Portadown
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Tricolours
A lamppost and electrical box in the colours of the Irish Tricolour, with “IRA” added.
Lake Street, Lurgan
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No RUC
Large “No RUC” road sign on an electrical sub-station in Donnelly Gardens, Lurgan.
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I’m A Local Celebrity
The 40m-long mural below the UFF and UWC murals in Lincoln Court, Londonderry, took three years to complete. It includes 36 animals and 57 people, and portraits of young people from the area. The official title of the piece is “I’m a local celebrity; get me out of here.” (Julius Guzy)
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Londonderry Waterside UFF
“1st Batt, A Coy, Londonderry Waterside, Ulster Freedom Fighters.” Mural in Lincoln Court, Londonderry.
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UWC 1974-2004
“Undeterred and undefeated”. In May 1974, the Ulster Worker’s Council (led by H&W shop stewards and supported by the UDA) organised a strike protesting the December 1973 Sunningdale Agreement. After two weeks, the Executive collapsed and direct ruler from Westminster resumed.
The photograph reproduced can be seen on the Bel Tel.
Lincoln Court, Londonderry
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Lurgan Republican Gravestones
These plaques and headstones are from St Colman’s cemetery in Lurgan (on N. Circular Road). The most notable and the first and last: Thomas Harte and Paddy McGrath (a 1916 Rising participant) who were executed by De Valera in 1940 for the deaths of two (Irish) Special Branch officers who were among a party that stormed their house, though it was never established whose bullets had killed the pair (more at Treason Felony).
The car in which McKerr, Toman, and Burns were travelling was shot 109 times by a specially trained RUC squad (Headquarters Mobile Support Unit – HMSU), under the control of (UK) special branch in an apparent shoot-to-kill operation.
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UDA Memorial
“In memory of Ben Redfern, Lindsay Mooney, Cecil McKnight, Gary Lynch, Ray Smallwoods, William Campbell. Lest we forget.” For Redfern and Lynch, see It’s Still Only Thursday; Smallwoods has a WP page; Campbell died in 2002 in a premature pipe-bomb explosion (Guardian).
Lincoln Court, Londonderry
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