A notice for “Ballynahinch Orange festival – flagship 12th – Thursday 12th July” sits in the window of the Orange Hall, “AD 1932” in Dromore Road.
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Orange Festival
Area Affiliation
Town Council
Ballynahinch Protestant Boys
“Lest we forget – battle of the Somme 1916”, with the names of 24 WWI battles. Ballynahinch Protestant Boys flute band (Fb), “est. 2000”
Main Street, Ballynahinch
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South Down Command
“This monument is dedicated to all those from the South Down locality who lost their lives or played a part in the fight for Irish freedom. Fuaır sıad bas [bás] ar son saoırse na heıreann [hÉıreann]”: [IRA volunteers] Peter McNulty, James Carlin, Martin Curran, Leo O’Hanlon, Vivien Fitzsommons, Alphonsus Cunningham, Pauline Kane, Paul Magorrian, Francis Rice, and Colum Marks, who is also included in a north Down memorial.
With adjacent stencil from anti-Agreement republicans: “Restore political status”
South Square, Castlewellan
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Na hÓglaıgh A Fuaır Bás I nDún Pádraıg
“I ndıl chuımhne ar na hÓglaıgh a fuaır bás ar son na hÉıreann: an tÓglach Colm Marks, a maríodh san áıt seo [who was killed at this spot] 10-4-1991 agus na hÓglaıgh eıle a fuaır bás ı nDún Pádraıg”. Marks was killed in an alleged shoot-to-kill incident in 1991 (An Phoblacht).
Others killed in Downpatrick include Seamus Blaney, James Carlin, Dickie Curran, Leo Hanlon, Vivienne Fitzsimons, and – a new, historical, addition – Thomas Russell “the man from God knows where” and United Irishman who was hanged and beheaded outside Downpatrick jail in 1803 for his part in the rising.
“The fools, the fools, they have left us our fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.” [Padraig Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915]
“Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann An Dún Theas” [North Down IRA]
St Patrick’s Avenue, Downpatrick
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The Men Of Downpatrick
“In memory of the men of Downpatrick who gave their lives for others in the Great War 1914-1918.” The plaque in the wall (to the right) is to “Pte JJ Cochrane, 3rd Btn Co Down UDR”.
Strangford Road, Downpatrick
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H Block
A large “H” stands between Killough Road and Ballymote Walk, Downpatrick as a memorial to the blanketmen and hunger strikers of the H-Blocks.
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Milltown Arch
This is the arch in Milltown Street, Dungannon. The panels show (left) William, Prince Of Orange and (right) the B-Special and UDR on either side of an Ulster Banner in the shape of Northern Ireland, and, (left) Milltown Arch Committee, Dungannon, and (right) the surnames of the thirteen apprentice boys who shut the gates of Derry against the forces of James II in 1688.
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Moygashel Arch
This is the arch in Moygashel, home to LOL 708 and WLOL 106.
Mullybrannon Rd, Moygashel
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Barrack Hill
Here are five images from Barrack Hill in Armagh: a pair of murals showing a “UVF Gun-Smuggler 1913” and “Arms Training 1913”, along with some UVF nail-ups, one above a True Blues flute band board (Fb).
Barrack Hill/Gough Avenue, Armagh
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