The Fountain bonfire for 2008 includes a Tricolour and Celtic flags, and a Sınn Féın electoral poster. There’s also a children’s bonfire. See also: 2007’s bonfire.
For the mural in the background, see British Ulster Alliance.
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“Life, Truth, Victory.” Londonderry city’s coat of arms is displayed on (what is now) Heritage Tower Museum (previously Derry Gaol), including a skeleton (WP). In the top part is the flag of the city of London.
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Scenes from the Siege Of Derry and Battle Of The Boyne in the Fountain, Londonderry: Captain Browning of the Mountjoy being shot as goods were unloaded from his ship, the beseiged lamenting over a dead comrade, The battle of the Boyne, battle scene, Willian King Memorial Flute Band, Siege of Derry. The area was photographed previously in 2002, 2006, and 2007.
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It’s not clear what this model in the Fountain is of. The nearby St Columb’s Cathedral has a single spire rather than a large turret. Please comment if you can shed any light.
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Images depicting a pair of WWI memorials – Thiepval Tower and Ulster Tower – are added to the Somme mural below the Cathedral Youth Club.
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No surrender! Let no one question the loyalty of this graffitist in Wapping Lane, Londonderry. Quis separabit!
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Red-white-and-blue kerbstones in Hallidays Road, north Belfast.
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This is the second generation of a series of boards on Ballysilland Road depicting (as the info board states “a series of scenes from the 20th century which have strong resonance with the local community”. The first generation can be seen in 20th Century Northern Ireland. Most of the changes are at the start/left-hand side: the info board replaces the first two panels, which were of the Cavehill Road and the Clyde Valley, and (next in line) only one of the three scenes of Belfast on Ulster Day survives. Carson signing the covenant is followed by a new double-sized panel of Fernhill House, specifically of “the 2nd West Belfast Battalion of the UVF … on parade”, and then the rest as before, but with the order of the “Sunningdale Agreement of 1973” and “Ulster Workers Council’s ‘Constitutional Stoppage’ of May 1974” panels reversed (i.e. now in chronological order). “Parliament Buildings at Stormont, opened by the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) on 16 November 1932, completes the mural.”
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Glenbryn is the loyalist area in the north of Ardoyne, separated from republican Ardoyne by a so-called “peace” line. This red-white-and-blue-coloured light-pole marks the boundary between the areas on Ardoyne Road.
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“LVF scum Stuarty Hill deals drug’s and gun’s we Ardoyne INLA.” Graffiti in (loyalist) Rathlin Street, Belfast. The matter is discussed in this BelTel article
[See also M09019 “Stuarty Hill LVF scum who wr u meating. Drug dealer’s from the INLA” in Hopewell]
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