“Tabhaır onóır doıgh suíd a fuaır bás ar son na hÉıreann” [corrupted Irish with the general meaning “Honor … who died for Ireland”]. “Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal! – Bobby Sands Fri. 6th March 1981”. Another Éıre mural was previously further down the wall on Mountpottinger Road, Belfast.
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“This is what links us together … identity.” A project supported by the New Belfast Community Arts Initiative (from Community Arts Forum, now Community Arts Partnership).
Mountpottinger Road, east Belfast
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“Whatever You Say, Say Nothing” is the name of a 1975 Seamus Heaney poem from the collection North, and of a 1981 Colum Sands song. “P O’Neill” was the name used by the IRA on its public statements.
Short Strand, east Belfast
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UVF territorial marking in east Belfast. McMaster Street, a few blocks west of the earlier UFF marking in Solway Street.
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Newtownards Road at the old Solway Street.
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UVF memorial mural in Lendrick Street, Belfast, with crest over the hoarding.
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Blair Mayne (1916-1955) was a WWII commando and one of the first members of the SAS (Special Air Service), participating in raids behind enemy lines in Egypt and Libya, and later, as SAS commander, in France, Belgium and other countries. His many decorations include the DSO (four times) and French Croix De Guerre and Legion D’Honneur. There is a mural (and a statue) to Mayne in his home town of Newtownards.
The UVF emblem and verse on the right are from the previous (Red Hand Commando/UVF) mural (see D00982). The verse is from Sassoon’s Suicide In The Trenches. “You smug-faced crowd[s] with kindling eye/Who cheer when soldier lads march by,/Sneak home and pray you’ll never know/The hell where youth and laughter go.”
Newtownards Road, east Belfast
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This Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) mural is an extremely rare example of a loyalist electoral mural. For another PUP mural, see C00952.
Dee Street, east Belfast
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This three-part UDA/UFF mural is in Island Street, Belfast. The “Ulster Freedom Fighters” is a cover name, beginning in 1973, for the Ulster Defence Association, formed in 1971.
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