Here is the (locked) main gate of the 1st Shankill Somme Association (Fb) garden of reflection, next to the Mountainview Tavern.
The metal-work shows the insignia of the 36th Division; the plaques on the gate-posts show the Ulster Tower memorial in Thiepval, France.
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Portrait of King William II of Orange, on the Brookmount Street side of the West Belfast Orange Hall, a.k.a the “Shankill Citadel” (Fb), which opened in 1898.
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This “C company, 1st Belfast battalion, Ulster Volunteer Force roll of honour” in Carnan Street, Belfast, uses WWI (USSF insignia, an image of soldiers on the battlefield, poppies, and a verse from In Flanders Fields) to commemorate 25 volunteers from the middle Shankill area. (For the first five, see also the plaque across the street.) The “Four Step” was a pub bombed in 1971 (see X02393).
Replaces the Greengairs Thistle FB mural – the band’s insignia is in the top right.
Carnan Street (renamed “C Coy Street”)
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UDA/UFF C company board high above on Northumberland Street, Belfast.
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2010 image of the 2009 Cuba mural, with the word “Venceremos” added on the left-hand side.
Pro-Cuba mural on the international wall and criticism of the Obama regime’s continuation of the US blockade. “The world opposes US blockade of Cuba. Time for a change Mr Obama.” “UN General Assembly resolution Oct 2008. Countries opposed to the blockade: 185. Countries in favour: 3 (US, Israel, Palau)”. “¡Aqui no se rinde nadie!” [There’s no giving up here!]
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2010 mural (unveiled July 4th on the 40th anniversary) of Máıre Drumm (WP) and the women of West Belfast breaking the British army curfew of the Lower falls in 1970 (brief interview footage from the 9:00 minute mark). Máıre Drumm was later shot dead in her bed in the Mater hospital where she was a patient.
The commemorative plaque that was next to Elaine’s and the Sınn Féın office was later moved to the top right corner of the mural. [M05736]
International wall, Divis St, Belfast. (A shot of this mural being painted can be found here.)
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“Belfast’s Irish language radio station”, “Guth nua Gaeılge”, “An Irish voice for all”, “Glór Beo Bríomhar” [An active, vigorous, voice]. Raıdıó Fáılte (Welcome Radio) broadcasts at 107.1 FM and raıdıofaılte.com.
International Wall (Visual History), Divis Street, Belfast
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“Ag fıorú [sic] na ceathrún gaeltachta”/”Delivering on the Gaeltacht quarter”. Laochra Loch Lao [Belfast Lough Warriors] is a Gaelic-games club operating through Irish. The club’s emblem is the blackbird, from the ninth-century poem: “Int én bec/ro léıc feıt/do rınn guıp/glanbuıdı:/fo-ceırd faíd/ós Loch Laíg,/lon do chraíb/charnbuıdı.” “The little bird/that whistled shrill/from the nib of/its yellow bill/a note let go/o’er Belfast Lough/a blackbird from/a yellow whin” (Ciaran Carson’s translation). With support from Forbaırt Feırste.
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Updated pro-Palestinian mural on the so-called “International Wall.” For the original, see M03990. Centrally “We will return” has become “‘This is a war crime!’ – Yonaton Shapira, Israeli refusnik.” Shapira is a former Israeli pilot.
“Free Palestine from 60 years of Nakba! End this barbarian Israeli aggression! You destroy our home but we build a nation. 1300 slaughtered.”
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“Republican Network For Unity – “It is futile to say that partition will end if we are patient. The border will not fade away, nor partition be ended until such time as the united strength is used in the supreme effort to get rid of it” – Cmdt General Tom Barry” Tom Barry’s quote serves as inspiration for the recently-formed (2007) RNU.
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