The shamrock and the poppy. The Young Citizen Volunteers formed a battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and so part of the 36th (Ulster) Division during the first world war.
Benburb Street, Belfast
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“Families Against Supergrass Trials demand human rights and justice!” The trials of fourteen (alleged) UVF members began in September, using supergrass witnesses (BBC | Guardian). A FAST banner is here seen in Spier’s Place. Extramural has images of the banners in Donegall Pass, Mount Vernon, and Newtownards Road. [The trial would largely collapse in February, 2012 (Guardian)]
For the mural on the left, see UVF Roadblock At Donaghadee; for the memorial on the right, see They Paid The Ultimate Sacrifice.
Spier’s Place, west Belfast
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“This tablet marks the site of Frizzel[l]’s Fish shop, where at 1:05 p.m. on Saturday 23rd October 1993 a terrorist bomb exploded. 9 innocent souls lost their lives and many more were injured.”
The Shankill UDA and LPA had their headquarters October 23rd above Frizzell’s (here “Frizzel’s”) fishmongers on the Shankill Road. The meeting whose attendees were the intended target had ended early and the bomb exploded prematurely, killing nine people, including the owner and three members of his family, and one of the IRA bombers (elsewhere memorialized by a plaque in Ardoyne), and injuring 57 others.
See also: Shankill Atrocities which (in one of its panels) reproduces the scene after the bombing.
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Here is a gallery of 27 images from loyal Mullaghglass, on the outskirts of Newry. In addition to Union Flags, Ulster Banners, and UVF/RHC emblems, we see a number of PAF [Protestant Action Force] emblems, the South Down Defenders flute band, and a portrait of QEII.
Armagh Road, Newry
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The 14th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles was formed from the Young Citizen Volunteers, the youth division of the Ulster Volunteers (WartimeMemories).
These nail-ups are at the bottom (Belfast Rd) and top (Cloghanramer Rd) of Shandon Park estate in Newry.
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Relief Of Derry bonfire in the Fountain with a wide array of CNR flags: Tricolour, Starry Plough, harp, 32CSM, IRSP, Celtic FC.
See previously: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 11th Night
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A permanent ‘show of strength’ on the Newtownards Road, depicting hooded gunmen firing into the air at Dee Street. Purple and orange are the colours of the UVF (and the Orange Order).
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Three panels from left to right: “Avenue Road Somme Association – in memory of the fallen 36th Ulster [sic] Division”; “Ulster Volunteer Force – Ulster’s Brave Young Men”; “They whom this scroll commemorates, who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardship, faced danger and finally passed out of the sight of men in the path of duty and self sacrifice giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Those that came after see to it that their names are not forgotten.”
Avenue Road, Lurgan
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Insignia of the UDA, UFF, and UYM – and a red hand on a street lamp – in Moeran Park, Portadown
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2011 images of the Union Street, Portadown mural previously seen in 2011.
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