Belfast south

Brigadier John McMichael

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“Murdered by the enemies – 22nd December 1987. We forget him not.” The South Belfast UDA/UFF commander was killed by an IRA car bomb in 1987. In addition to organising a team of assassins in the 70s and 80s, he founded a Political Research Group and wrote two documents proposing an independent Northern Ireland.

Previously seen in 2005.

Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast

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Stand Off – Trade Off

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The “stand-off, trade-off” mural reappears in Artana Street, Belfast, previously covered by Stand Firm. The mural dates to 1998, when an Orange Order march was allowed to parade along Ormeau Road. Parades Commission chairman Alistair Graham (pictured in the mural beneath the evil-eyed OO member) “insisted that the Ormeau Road decision “was not a simple trade-off for our earlier decision on Drumcree”” (Irish Times). Painted by Troy Garity, recreating an Ian Knox cartoon (Belfast Media).

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Fıan Jim Templeton

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“I ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne ar ár gcomrádaí. Fıan Jim Templeton murdered by pro-British death squads. 28ú Eanáir [January] 1960 – 29ú Lúnasa [August] 1975.” Jim Templeton, aged 15, was shot from a passing car while standing outside the Rose & Crown on the Ormeau Road, Belfast (CAIN/Sutton).

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Murdered For Their Faith

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“In memory of Jack Duffin, Willie McManus, Christy Doherty, Peter Magee, James Kennedy. Murdered for their faith on 5th February 1992. Also in memory of all other local people who have been murdered for their faith. Go ndeana Dıa trocaıre ar a nanamacha.” The five Catholics were killed and nine more injured in a UDA attack on Sean Graham’s bookmakers on the Ormeau Road, Belfast.

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The Reaper Come To Call

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“Through the lonely streets of Ulster/the reaper come’s to call/He travel’s from town to city/Right down to Derry’s wall/When the UFF they call him/To come and join the fight/He say’s if the bullet doesn’t kill them/They’ll surely die from fright/So when you’re in your bed at night/And hear soft footsteps fall/Be careful it’s not the UFF/And reaper come to call.” Iron Maiden’s ‘Eddie The Head’ in UFF fatigues (see the Visual History page for Eddie) with a list of the urban Belfast companies in the South Belfast brigade.

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