These two murals are side-by-side in Craven Street. On the right, a farmer’s wife defends the farm (the stone wall) in order to preserve it as part of the UK (the Union Flag) despite the threat of Home Rule; on the left, “in proud and loving memory” of three UVF volunteers assassinated by the IRA: Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy, John Bingham, and William “Frenchie” Marchant. “Lest we forget.”
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The Ulster Banner, Union flag, St Andrew’s Saltire and the UVF’s own flag stand around the UVF red hand emblem (For God and Ulster, 1912), next to an LPOW hand in barbed wire.
The wide shot shows the accompanying YCV shamrock and an in-progress painting of the emblem of the 36th (Ulster) Division. For the completed version, see 1993.
Crumlin Road, Belfast, at Queensland and Tasmania streets.
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Three loyalist murals side-by-side: the Union jack in the shape of Northern Ireland, a red hand of Ulster and crown on the six-pointed star, between St Andrew’s Saltire and the Union flag, and a (UDA?) volunteer with rifle.
Location unknown — perhaps the old Shankill Parade?
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The yellow triangle of the PAF (Protestant Action Force, a cover for the UVF) with the words”The UVF reserve the right to strike at republican targets where and when the opportunity arises.” with adjacent UVF/YCV hooded gunmen mural in Ohio Street, Belfast.
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Loyalist prisoners of war (LPOW) mural in Rosebank Street, Belfast, with red hands wrapped in barbed wire, the Union flag and Ulster banner, under an assault rifle.
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Loyalist volunteers armed with rifles wave an Ulster banner. A two-colour mural on a white background in Rosebank Street, Belfast.
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UDA/UFF/WDA (Woodvale Defence Association) and William “Bucky” McCullough Memorial Flute Band mural, with silhouetted volunteers, images of various weapons (held in red hands), and barbed wire.
Heather Street, west Belfast.
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Dates back to at least 1987.
This mural celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Ulster Volunteers, 1912 – 1987, with a portrait of Edward Carson and a rifle mounted on the back of a car (based on a photograph from 1914).
Shankill Road (on the wall of (what is now) the PUP offices, just west of the current Bayardo memorial), west Belfast.
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“West Belfast Brigade UDA C Company”. UDA/UDF/LPA/UFF mural on the Shankill. (For a similar quartet of names and explanation of “UDF”, see Sans Peur.)
The title “First Ulster Defence Assoc.” is an attempt to tie together the defenders of Derry in 1688 (300th anniversary) with the modern Ulster Defence Association. This is an early attempt to give the UDA historical roots, beyond the Shankill and Woodvale Defence Associations. To this end, the group would adopt Cú Chulaınn (beginning in 1992 – see the Visual History page) and (beginning in 2007 – see UDU-UFF-UDA) the 1893 Ulster Defence Union as ancestors.
Canmore Street, west Belfast
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Orange Order symbols and slogans on a wall on Circular Road, Larne, such as the Union flag, the Mountjoy, the ladder, a cockerel, a goat, William on his horse, “This we maintain”, “1688 – 1690”, “No popery here”. To the left is an Orange arch. The mural dates back to 1969 at least.
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