A pair of manacled red fists break free of their chains and the Maze/Long Kesh is depicted in the outline of Northern Ireland. “Free the prisoners”, “All gave some, some gave all.”
Bellevue Street (Shankill Road), west Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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Loyalist graffiti in Sandy Row: “UDA”, “UFF”, “POW”, “S/Row”, and a drawing of a red hand and of a clownish figure (perhaps the pope).
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Masked volunteers brandishing Uzis stand on either side of the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Ulster banner and UVF 1912 flags. “Sandy Row 2nd Batt, UVF, YCV, PAF.”
Albion Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Loyalist stencil in Sandy Row, Belfast, demanding the release of political prisoners. A clenched fist with slogan in the shape of the letter “U”.
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An extra-wide UFF mural Stroud Street, Belfast, showing a red right hand raising a rifle.
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This is a UDA roll of honour mural to John McMichael and other “A battalion” south Belfast UDA volunteers.
“In memoriam: Brig. J. McMichael, Jim Kenna, Frankie Smyth, Ernie Dowds, Sammy Hunt, Steven Audley, William Kingsberry, Joe Bratty, Tommy Morgan, William Hamilton”
Rowland Way, Sandy Row, south Belfast.
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King Billy (William III Of Orange) on the wall in Inverary Drive, east Belfast, mounted on a white horse, pointing the way across the Boyne.
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Controversial DUP and later independent politician and preacher George Seawright served as city councillor and NI Assembly member from 1981 to 1986, when he was jailed for his role in physically attacking NI Secretary of State Tom King. He was “murdered by the enemies of Ulster [the IPLO] Nov 1987”. “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life – Revelation 2 v10.”
The side-wall was later painted – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
Percy Place, west Belfast
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Red Hand Commando volunteer Stevie McCrea was “murdered by the enemies of Ulster” on February 18th, 1989. An-RHC-modified UVF flag is on the left-hand side.
Broadway/Frenchpark Street, Village, south Belfast – for the large gable wall, see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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An unusual line drawing mural, in cartoon style, of the UVF emblem (with blood dripping from the red hand) along with UVF flag and Ulster banner. Sandy Row, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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