The crown of the British monarch and the Bible. No 7 of 9 in Percy Place, Belfast.
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One Faith, One Crown
Belfast west
This Is Loyalist West Belfast
A hooded UVF gunman kneels between the Ulster banner and the UVF flag. “Shankill”, “No surrender”. No 6 of 9 in Percy Place, Belfast.
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Shankill Supports All The Loyalist Prisoners
Both UVF and UDA emblems (as well as PAF and YCV) in the quadrants of an Ulster banner shield with Northern Island in the middle. Union flags on the side and barbed wire above. No 5 of 9 on the south side of Percy Place, Belfast.
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Ulster Scotland
Mural No 4 of 9 in Percy Place, Belfast pairs an Ulster banner with a St Andrew’s Saltire, with a red hand on a six-pointed star beneath a crown. “United we stand.”
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UDA C Company
UDA/UFF/UDF/LPA mural in Percy Place, Belfast. (No 3 of 9) The slogan is mistakenly written as “Sans pure” – it should be “sans peur” (without fear). “Quis separabit”
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Northern Island
Percy Place, No 2 of 9. Loyalist paramilitary volunteer (perhaps based on Gusty Spence) with an Ulster banner in one hand and an automatic rifle in the other, standing on an unattached Northern Ireland.
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No Surrender 1690
The left-most mural (No. 1 of 9) in Percy Place, Belfast. The central motif of a red hand on a Saltire is unusual. 1690 is the date of King William III’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne.
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USSF
The West Belfast Ulster Special Service Force (USSF) was a local Shankill unit within the West Belfast regiment of the Ulster Volunteers. It lost 90% of its men at the battle of Albert on July 1st, 1916. For more of its history see BygoneDays.
Craven Street, lower Shankill, west Belfast
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70th Anniversary Of The Somme
On the left of the lightning bolt are the soldiers of the 36th Ulster division (U.V.F.) R.I.R (Royal Irish Rifles) on the western front in 1916; on the right are “UVF prisoners of war, Long Kesh”.
A similar board was painted in the UVF compounds of Long Kesh. Of it, Billy Hutchinson (in his 2011 piece “Transcendental Art“) said, “My favourite mural was one inspired by the British anti-war poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Suicide In The Trenches depicts a UVF volunteer split down the middle by a bolt of lightning. Half of him depicts a 36th Ulster Division soldier under heavy fire in a rainsoaked WW1 trench. The other half shows a ’70s volunteer incarcerated behind barbed wire and over-shadowed by watch towers.” (The piece – W2021.1.8 in the Ulster Museum collection – includes the last verse from Sassoon’s Suicide In The Trenches.)
Hutchinson also describes the importance of the Orange Cross welfare organisation in selling prisoner art produced inside the prison. Stevie McCrea of the RHC was killed in the Orange Cross in 1989 – see Stevie McCrea.
Craven Street, west Belfast
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Deserted! Well – I Can Stand Alone
These two murals are side-by-side in Craven Street. On the right, a farmer’s wife defends the farm (the stone wall) in order to preserve it as part of the UK (the Union Flag) despite the threat of Home Rule; on the left, “in proud and loving memory” of three UVF volunteers assassinated by the IRA: Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy, John Bingham, and William “Frenchie” Marchant. “Lest we forget.”
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