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Matt Baggott RIP

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PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott (here “Baggot”, with only one “T”) in January announced that he would retire from the force in September of this year (2014), after heading the organisation for five years (Guardian). He, and the PSNI generally, will not be missed in Bray Street (first three) and Rathlin Street (final four), Woodvale, west Belfast.

(Update: The date was moved up – Baggott quit at the end of June. BBC)

“PSNI stay out”, “PSNI no go zone”, “PSNI keep out!!!”, “Fuck the Pope”, “PSNI targets”, “KAT”

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The Lions Of Ulster

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“100 years of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant. ‘We will not have home rule.’ The lions of Ulster.”

“West Belfast Athletic & Cultural Society – breaking down barriers through sport and cultural exchange. This mural was dedicated by Alderman Hugh Smyth O.B.E. on Friday the 21st September 2012 to commemorate the centenary of the signing of Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant.”

The eight plaques (from left to right) are to Major Fredrick H Crawford, Volunteer Robert J Adgey, James Craig, the Ulster Covenant, Sir Edward Henry Carson, Sir George Lloyd Reilly Richardson, Captain Wilfrid Spender, Ulster Volunteer Force.

N. Howard Street, Belfast

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In Memory Of Our Forefathers

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The Ulster Volunteers of 1912 joined the 36th Division of WWI. After the war, many of them joined the B Specials, which was disbanded in 1970 and the UDR created. The modern UVF was formed in 1965. There is a Willowfield UVF memorial garden in Cherryville St (M04070).

Ardenvohr Street, Belfast

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Frazer & McDonald

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“In memory of Thomas (Tom) McDonald, murdered aged 15, 4th September 2001. Also William James (Jimmy) Frazer, murdered aged 12, 14th July 1989. Gone but not forgotten.” McDonald was pursued and knocked off his bike by a driver at whose car he had thrown a brick (Irish Times). Frazer (aged 42) was beaten, along with a friend, by three men from Bawnmore and died of his injuries five days later (Lost Lives 3046).

Mulderg Drive, Newtownabbey

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Vita, Veritas, Victoria

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“Forever the town hereafter be and shall be named and called the city of Londonderry”, with the motto “Life, Truth, Victory”.

The city’s coat of arms is featured in the centre – there are various interpretations of its elements, including the skeleton (WP). In the top right is the coat of arms of the city of London (whose flag is the top part of the coat of arms) – “Domine dirige nos” [Lord, Direct Us].

St. Columb’s cathedral (WP) is top left and a map of the walls bottom right. For the dedication stone from St Columb’s (bottom left), see If Stones Could Speak.

Fountain Street, Londonderry

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Fountain Bonfire

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Purloined pieces decorating this year’s Relief Of Derry bonfire in the Fountain: a hand-painted “Free Marian Price now!” board, a 32CSM flag, and (flying) flags of Che Guevara on a Tricolour, the IRSP, and a Starry Plough, as well as tricolours, an FAI flag, and an … Argentinian? flag.

Hawkin Street, Londonderry

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City Hall Stained Glass

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Here are five pieces of stained glass from Belfast City Hall:

“The Dockers’ Strike Centenary Window 1907” designed by John McLaughlin, featuring Big Jim Larkin above the words “Not as Catholics or Protestants, not as nationalists or unionists, but as Belfast workers standing together.

“The Famine Window” designed by Calderwood Glass, in memory of “those citizens of Belfast who died as a result of Typhus and Cholera in the years 1846, 1847 and 1848.”

A memorial window to British Army soldiers “who have served in the city of Belfast and the province since 1969”, a UDR memorial window, and (in two images) UDR memorial window.

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