The ‘still under siege’ message from “West Bank loyalists” in Hawkin Street, Londonderry, is repaired after being paint bombed – see 2002 image. “No surrender.”
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New Gate
This is the scene in Hawkin Street, Londonderry, in 2004, looking back towards New Gate.
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Fountain Dead
These four plaques are behind the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain, Londonderry in a small memorial garden. William King died of a heart attack during ‘Free Derry’ clashes; there is a flute band in his name. Logan, Montgomery, and Stott were RUC and UDR members killed by the IRA.
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Marching & Dancing
This cross-cultural mural from inside the Cathedral Youth Club, in the Fountain, Londonderry, celebrates both the music of flute-and-drum bands and Irish dancing. The tune illustrated ‘There Is A Green Hill Far Away’ by Cecil Alexander, wife of Church Of Ireland bishop William Alexander. They lived in Strabane and the eponymous hill is said to be one outside the old walls of Derry.
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Sgt Lindsay Mooney
The Lindsay Mooney Memorial Flute Band was formed in 1973 after the St. Patrick’s day death of 19-year-old Lindsay Mooney, a UDA member killed by the premature explosion of a bomb near Lifford, County Donegal (Sutton). The band dissolved in 1993 but commemorative nights are still held (Sentinel) (and there are recent videos on youtube of a band with this name).
Cathedral Youth Club, the Fountain, Londonderry
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Ulster’s Finest
Here are 2003 images, including close-ups, of the YCV-UVF-RHC board in Dennet Gardens, Londonderry, previously seen in 1998.
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Breaking The Boom
After three and a half months, from April 18th to July 30th, 1689, the Siege of Derry ended when two ships, the Mountjoy (shown here) and the Phoenix, broke through a timber boom that had been placed across the Foyle. Approximately half of the population of the city had died.
Roulston Avenue, Waterside, Londonderry
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The Apprentice Boys Of Derry
The siege of Derry began on December 7th, 1688 when thirteen apprentice boys – without official instruction – shut the gates of the city against the approaching Jacobite army of redshanks.
Emerson Street, Waterside, Londonderry
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Cecil McKnight
Cecil McKnight was a UDA/UFF volunteer, Orange Order member, and chairman of the UDP (Ulster Democratic Party) when he was shot dead at his home in Melrose Terrace by the IRA on June 29th, 1991. (Sentinel). McKnight is shown standing in front of a mural in the adjacent Ebrington Terrace circa 1990.
Emerson Street, Waterside, Londonderry
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George Washington
“If defeated everywhere else I will make my final stand for liberty with the Scotch-Irish (Ulster-Scots) of my native Virginia.” George Washington commanded the Continental Army during the revolution and served as the first president of the United States beginning in 1789. His ancestry was English and the quote is undocumented, the closest being this statement from McKinley. The note in the corner reads “History records that almost half of Washington’s army were Ulster-Scots”; the basis for this claim might be General (Charles?) Lee’s report that “half the rebel Continental Army were from Ireland.” (See Chapter 2 of Bagenal, The American Irish and their Influence on Irish Politics.)
Previously: Theodore Roosevelt | James Buchanan.
Ebrington Street Lower, Londonderry
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