“30 years of indiscriminate slaughter by so-called non-sectarian Irish freedom fighters.” The five bombing depicted at those at the Four Step Inn, Balmoral Showrooms, Mountainvew Tavern, Bayardo Bar, Frizzell’s fish shop. “Where are our inquiries? Where is our truth? Where is our justice?”
Bellevue Street, west Belfast
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Greengairs Thistle (web | Fb) is a flute band from Scotland (Irvine, Airdrie, Fife) which carries the standards of C Company, 1st Battalion UVF.
Carnan Street, west Belfast
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UVF volunteers Robert Wadsworth, Robert McIntyre, James McGregor, Thomas Chapman, William Hannah, who died in the 1970s, are commemorated with a plaque and a mural in Carnan Street, Belfast. The plaque includes lines from Binyon’s WWI poem For The Fallen: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn/At the going down of the sun and in the morning/We will remember them” with “in our hearts forever” added; the flowers of the four home nations also suggests WWI. The “Four Step” was a pub bombed in 1971 (see X02393).
For the previous version of the hooded gunmen, see T00242.
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“In memory of Ulster’s fallen.” “Lamh dearg abu” [= “Lámh dhearg abú”] [= “Red Hand to victory”] “Ulster to victory” “It is not for glory or riches we fight but for our people.” With the insignia of the Red Hand Commandos.
Glenwood Street, west Belfast
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“250,000 Ulster Scots emigrated to America in the 1700s and were the driving force behind the American Revolution.” James Buchanan (senior) emigrated to the United States from Donegal (WP) or Tyrone (Ulster Scots). Junior was born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania in 1791. He was elected president in 1856, the 15th president of the United States, immediately prior to Abraham Lincoln. A version of this mural was also painted in Londonderry in the same year (1999).
“Shankill Ulster-Scots Cultural Society. The Buchanan Mural. This mural was dedicated to the memory of those early Ulster-Scots emigrants by Ms Jane Benton Fort, US Consul General, on Thursday November 4th, 1999. Sae monie hairts gaed far frae hame – bot ilka yin oor ain fowk. This project was funded by Belfast City Council and Making Belfast Work.”
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Ernie “Duke” Elliott came from the Woodvale area and was a founder member of the Woodvale Defence Association in 1971, which was later folded into the UDA. He was also a Marxist. He was killed in a pub brawl in December 1972 in a dispute over weapons (WP | Tele | Watching The Door)
Ohio Street, west Belfast
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“This mural is dedicated to the fallen volunteers of No 4 Pltn A Coy, 1st Belfast Battn, Ulster Volunteer Force who dutifully served this community in the years of conflict. It pays tribute to those who died in active engagement and to the many who passed peacefully from service having fulfilled their duties. Their names and deeds are eternally venerated by their comrades in arms who humbly serve in their honour. They remained staunch to the end against odds uncounted, they fell with their faces to the foe, their name liveth forevermore.“
Glenwood Street, Belfast
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A close-up from Seosamh Mac Coılle (2013 X01044).
RHC board above the advertising hoarding on Lanark Way at Shankill Road, Belfast.
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“Charles J. Kickham 1828 – 1882. Patron of Ardoyne GAA [Cumann Lúth Chleas Gael].” Poet and columnist for the Irish People, Kickham was arrested in 1865 after the offices of the paper were raided upon suspicion of organising an IRB rebellion. The local club has had a mural at the top of the street since 1993.
Flax Street, north Belfast
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“British government guilty of electoral fraud. 211,000 denied their vote. Are you one of them? An bhfuıl tusa ına measc? Register now – Cláraıgh anoıs.” For a wide shot of the scene, see X00119.
Havana Way, north Belfast
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