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Fame’s Eternal Camping Ground

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“On fame’s Eternal camping ground, the silent tents are spread, and glory keeps the solemn round, the bivouac of the dead.” Theodore O’Hara’s 1847 poem in memory of Kentucky soldiers who died in the Mexican War is use to commemorate “our brave fallen volunteers of the 36th (Ulster) Division, North Antrim Battalion (Ballymena).”

Drumtara, Ballymena

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Lamh Dearg Abu

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The UVF’s Red Hand Commando are inspired by the British Army’s SAS and uses a similar image for its emblem: instead of wings on a sword, RHC uses wings on a red hand. [East Belfast] C company mural in Ballybeen. ‘Lamh dearg abu’ = ‘red hand to victory’.

Upper Newtownards Road

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Ulster’s Sons, Ulster’s Sacrifice

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The upper image in the main mural is of workers leaving Harland & Wolff shipyard in 1911. In the lower image, they are shot in the trenches and suffer a gas attack in WWI.

Upper Newtownards Road, Ballybeen, Dundonald

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We’re Not Brazil, We’re Northern Ireland

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“My players are national heroes and have achieve immortality in Northern Ireland folklore …” – Lawrie Sanchez, NI manager. Sanchez was manager from January 2004 to April 2007, when he left to take over Fulham. Under his direction, the team scored notable victories over Spain in a Euro 2008 qualifier and a one-nil victory over England in a World Cup qualifier at Windsor Park. The goals from these games are included in this youtube video of the song We’re Not Brazil; We’re Northern Ireland.

With sponsorship from the East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society.

Montrose Street South, Belfast

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Concessions Given

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“Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998 the following concessions have been given :- Republicans: Prisoners released, facilities at Westminster, visas to the USA, army-police stations closed, home battalions of the RIR disbanded, on the runs allowed to return, Columbia 3 remain at liberty, bias against Protestants in employment practices, Sean Kelly child murdered set free, increased [sic] in investment, access to shared roads denied, loyalist culture eroded, £26.5 million pay off. The loyalist people of east Belfast demand:- equality, parity of esteem, shared access to main arterial routes, no bias in employment practices, cultural equality, equal investment, effective accountable policing. This is not equality, this is not parity of esteem, this is not what the Good Friday Agreement was meant to deliver.” Or, in short “Them’uns get everything and we get na’hin.”

Vicarage Street, Belfast

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