“Remember the La Mon bombing – 13 protestants killed for what??? Sinn Fien [sic] vote!” The La Mon hotel and restaurant, outside Belfast, was filled with civilians enjoying dinner-dances at the time it was bombed by the IRA in February 1978 (WP).
Ravenhill Avenue and Clara Street. There was identical graffito in Carrington Street.
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A message from “E.B. [east Belfast] Loyalists” in Castlereagh Parade, combining two speeches of Winston Churchill’s: We have nothing to offer but blood, tears, and sweat. Whatever the cost maybe, we shall fight on the beach’es, we shall fight in the fields and on the street’s. We shall never surrender.”
1940-05-13: “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask: What is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.”
1940-06-04: “We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. ”
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Eddie The Trooper is repainted in the Waterside. The main panel remains as before but the Haig quote above has been replaced by the UFF’s clenched fist in a yellow six-pointed star.
Eddie has his own Visual History page.
Ebrington Terrace, Londonderry
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This is the Relief Of Derry bonfire in the Fountain, Londonderry, for 2013. There was also a bonfire for 11th night.
The local flute band – William King Memorial (see Fountain Dead) – celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
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A small engraved plaque showing the shop-front of Frizzell’s fish shop has been added to the memorial on the Shankill Road. The upper tablet was seen previously in Frizzell’s.
Another such engraving can be found on the Mountainview Bar/Tavern, commemorating the 1975 bombing and gun attack there in which five people were killed and 60 injured (WP).
Three more Shankill bombings are commemorated in Shankill Atrocities.
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A Paratroop flag joins a UDU/UDA flag and an Ulster Banner on a lamp-post in Donegall Road, Belfast.
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Titanic workers by Ed Reynolds, whose site contains images of him at work on the piece (steadyhanded.com).
Combermere Street, south Belfast.
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Commentary on the hunger strike of IRA volunteers Bobby Sands in 1981, in south Belfast: “Slimfast champion”, “Mr Sands was a convic[t]ed criminal – he chose to take his own life.”
Dorchester Street (x2) and Daphne Street, off Donegall Road, Belfast
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“In honoured memory of the offices, NCOs and volunteers of the 36th (Ulster) Division, who selflessly gave their lives for King and country at the battle of the Somme, and other campaigns, throughout the Great War 1914-1918. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15 Verse 13′”
The ‘No surrender’ photograph montage shows images of life on the Shankill, from the Home-Rule period onward. It includes various old murals (see Visual History 01) and a photo of Hugh Smyth (see Third-Class Citizens).
Moscow Street/Rex Bar, west Belfast
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Loyalists on Sandy Row are not friends of Sinn Féin, the IRA, the PSNI, and all taigs. “We will always walk Ardoyne” is a reference to parading past the Ardoyne shops – the Parades’ Commission banned the march along that part of the route, and rioting took place (BBC).
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