Loyalist volunteers armed with rifles wave an Ulster banner. A two-colour mural on a white background in Rosebank Street, Belfast.
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For God And Ulster
Belfast west
UDA – WDA
UDA/UFF/WDA (Woodvale Defence Association) and William “Bucky” McCullough Memorial Flute Band mural, with silhouetted volunteers, images of various weapons (held in red hands), and barbed wire.
Heather Street, west Belfast.
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Dates back to at least 1987.
UVF 75th Anniversary
This mural celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Ulster Volunteers, 1912 – 1987, with a portrait of Edward Carson and a rifle mounted on the back of a car (based on a photograph from 1914).
Shankill Road (on the wall of (what is now) the PUP offices, just west of the current Bayardo memorial), west Belfast.
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Shutting The Gates Of Derry
“West Belfast Brigade UDA C Company”. UDA/UDF/LPA/UFF mural on the Shankill. (For a similar quartet of names and explanation of “UDF”, see Sans Peur.)
The title “First Ulster Defence Assoc.” is an attempt to tie together the defenders of Derry in 1688 (300th anniversary) with the modern Ulster Defence Association. This is an early attempt to give the UDA historical roots, beyond the Shankill and Woodvale Defence Associations. To this end, the group would adopt Cú Chulaınn (beginning in 1992 – see the Visual History page) and (beginning in 2007 – see UDU-UFF-UDA) the 1893 Ulster Defence Union as ancestors.
Canmore Street, west Belfast
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UDA
Two images of a UDA mural — armed volunteers on either side of the emblem — in progress at Carlisle Circus/Denmark Street, Belfast (confirmation of this location would be appreciated).
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UDA – UVF
The UDA and UVF/YCV share a wall in Matchett Street, Belfast. In the main (UVF) panel, two hooded gunmen with rifles kneel beneath additional weapons on either side the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Orange flag and Ulster banner.
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Mandela Father Of Freedom
“Happy birthday, comrade”. ANC leader Nelson Mandela turned 70 on July 18, 1988. He spent the day, like every birthday since 1963, in prison; he would not be released until 1990, after which apartheid would be dismantled and Mandela become the first President of South Africa. “The future belongs to you.” The colours of the ANC join the colours of the Irish Tricolour as a background to Mandela’s portrait. Painted by Mo Chara Kelly, with the help of “Sınn Féın Youth”.
Leeson Street, west Belfast
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Welcome To Beirut
Here are four images of a variety of slogans on the Falls Road. The first lists various resistance groups from around the world: IRA, PLO, ETA, ANC. The second has a phone number for “SAS strippers” and something about “One Brit and his dog”. In the third and fourth: “Óglaıgh na hÉıreann”, “Provisional IRA”, “Tıocfaıdh ár lá”, “RUC black bastards”.
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Beware Of A Risen People
This slogan might date to well before this image was taken in 1987
It was still visible in Twinbrook’s Summerhill Road in 2022.
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Vote Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin election writing on the outside wall on the City Cemetery, Whiterock Road, Belfast. In the distance can be seen The West Has The Best.
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Peter Moloney Collection 