Sandy Row mural with large wings behind UFF and UDA flags and insignia, with hooded gunmen on either side and “Fuck Rangers” graffiti.
Albion Street, south Belfast
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Sandy Row UFF
Belfast south
The Dark Days
Paint-bombed mural to members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Belfast Brigade, in the 36th (Ulster) Division, with (anachronistic) Ulster Banner and Union Flag: “they arose in the dark days to defend our native land for God and Ulster”, “And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, though shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them – Deuteronomy 7 verse 2”.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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UFF ‘A’ Batt
A red hand of the Sandy Row UDA clasps the barrel of a rifle. With “RIRA” graffiti in the bottom left.
Blythe Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Vote Sınn Féın Maskey No 1
An advertising hoarding on Cromac Street is painted over with a Tricolour for the 2001 (local) election. Alex Maskey stood successfully in the Laganbank ward (WP).
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Looking For Lasting Peace!
A fortune teller foresees an Irish News headline in her crystal ball: “RUC disbanded – New community police force established”.
Market Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Those From The Markets
Celtic cross and plaques “In memory of all those from the Markets and Lower Ormeau who died as a result of the conflict” (with Terence MacSwiney quote) and “In memory of all those who dedicated their lives to the struggle for Irish freedom”, in particular IRA 3rd battalion Belfast Brigade volunteers Nolan, Downey, Davison, and Fıan J. Templeton. With flags for the 20th anniversary of the hunger strike.
Stanfield Place, south Belfast
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Still On
2001 image of the masked volunteers previously seen in 1997 in Lower Stanfield Street. It is extremely unusual for a (republican) “hooded gunman” mural to survive to this date. We conjectured in the earlier post that the creation of the mural dates to the period between the ceasefires.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Firing Party
IRA 3rd battation volunteers Joseph Downey, Brendan Davison, and Tony Nolan are commemorated with a mural of a firing party and the crests of the four provinces.
Lower Stanfield Street, south Belfast
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A Postcard From The Edge
“Having a wonderful time? How was your summer?” The nationalist community is locked in the dark while the Orange Order parades loudly on the streets of south Belfast. Postcards From The Edge was a successful 1990 Hollywood film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine (WP).
Replaces the RUC Ninjas.
Essex Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Same Story, Same Bigotry
Londoner Stephen Lawrence was murdered by stabbing in 1993 and, although arrests were made, no charges were brought. A 1998 public inquiry found that the Metropolitan Police Service was “institutionally racist”. In 2012, two of the original suspects were found guilty of the murder (WP). Catholic Robert Hamill was beaten to death by loyalists in Portadown in 1997 while police in an RUC land-rover looked on (WP). The second image is of a fist smashing a swastika: “Stand firm – break the bigots [sic] back” on top of a Drumcree stand-off mural (which will become visible again in later years). Artana Street, Belfast
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