Here are some close-ups of the UVF/RHC mural in Hunt Street, east Belfast, seen previously in 2005.
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Lost Volunteers
PUL
UVF
Hunt Street, east Belfast
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PUP East Belfast Branch
The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a left-leaning unionist party founded in 1979 by Hugh Smyth, who served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1994. His successor as leader of the party (in 2002) was former UVF member David Ervine, who had been elected to the NI Assembly in 1998 but would die in January 2007.
Newtownards Road, Belfast
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We Are The Pilgrims
“We are the pilgrims, master; we shall always go a little further.” Copy of a UVF Tamar Street mural (perhaps after that area was redeveloped) above Cheepers on the Newtownards Road, Belfast. Below that is the view from Chamberlain Street in 2008, looking out over the red-white-and-blue kerbstones.
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RMS Titanic
“Her name is publicly announced in April 1908. Designation begins in March 1909. On May 31. 1911, the Titanic was launched here in Belfast, April 10, 1912. She left Southampton for New York. April 14, 1912 disaster struck in the North Atlantic ocean, 1523 people lost their lives in the disaster, 705 passengers and crew survived.” “This mural is respectfully dedicated to the men, women and children who lost their lives in the waters of the North Atlantic on the night of April 14, 1912: to those who survived – whose lives from that night on were forever altered; and to those who built the Titanic [at Harland and Wolff]. We forget them not.”
Pictured in the centre of the mural is Captain Edward John “Ted” Smith.
Dee Street, Belfast. Replaces an earlier Titanic mural.
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George Best 1946-2005
George Best was signed to English club Manchester United at age 15. He was footballer of the year in 1968 after helping United win the European Cup. He scored 9 goals in 37 appearances for Northern Ireland. He died in 2005 at age 59. For a full recap, see the42.ie.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, east Belfast
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Robert Dougan
2006 image of the Robert Dougan mural in Blythe Street, Belfast, first seen in 2005.
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UDA
UDA graffiti in Sandy Row, south Belfast.
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John McMichael Prisoners Enterprise Centre
Prisoners’ welfare centre on Sandy Row, Belfast, named after UDA brigadier John McMichael.
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Loyalist Eden
The village of Eden is being absorbed by an expanding Carrickfergus, famous for the castle shown in the UDA board in the first image. King William’s True Blues flute band (KWTB) amalgamated with the South East Antrim Defenders. Sources are few but it seems that SEA Defenders disbanded in 2007 but was re-established in 2010. (See previously 2004.)
Larne Road, Eden
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