Scenes from years gone by in the Beechmount area: Patsy Crawford gas lamp lighter, St Mary’s PS, Jack Garland featherweight champion Ireland, a building in Cavendish St (at Harrogate St), St Paul’s, the Beehive, Broadway cinema, Kennedy’s bakery, Meleady’s, Broadway church, St Dominic’s girls, Mr Smyth shoemaker.
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The memorial garden in Beechmount Avenue, Belfast, goes beyond commemoration of IRA volunteers. Moving clockwise: dying volunteer, “local men and women and POWs”, hunger strikers, comhaltaí Shınn Féın, proclamation, na hÓglaıgh, “innocent people from the area”, “the unsung heroes off [sic] this area”, Sands quote.
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Wolfe Tone replaces “Sinn Fein [sic] Out” graffiti below the sign for the Republican Museum on the “International Wall”,
Divis Street, Belfast
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The WBTA mural (on the International Wall (Visual History) is quickly repainted, with the central mural of the Easter Rising replaced with a gable-end version of a small (1981) mural in Rockdale St (long gone by 2008; in fact, none of the three murals depicted is extant in 2008 and none existed in the form shown).
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“LVF scum Stuarty Hill deals drug’s and gun’s we Ardoyne INLA.” Graffiti in (loyalist) Rathlin Street, Belfast. The matter is discussed in this BelTel article
[See also M09019 “Stuarty Hill LVF scum who wr u meating. Drug dealer’s from the INLA” in Hopewell]
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The Woodvale Defence Association merged with other ‘defence association’ to form the UDA in 1971. In the drawing above, “UDA” (which appears at the bottom anyway) has been scored out and replaced with “UDU”, which refers to the UDU of 1893, and which is being used by (some) anti-Agreement members of the (pre-Agreement) UDA as a new name for the organisation (beginning in 2007: Newsletter | Remembrance Day Statement at CAIN). Cf. UDU-WDA-UDA-UFF | Daffodil Days.
With “No surrender” and “Kill all taigs”.
Disraeli Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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“In loving memory of Brian (Herbie) McCallum. We will remember him. The officers and members of Sweeneys ‘A’ company, 1st Belfast battalion, Ulster Volunteer Force.” Brian “Herbie” McCallum was a 29 year-old attending a contentious loyalist parade to Whiterock Orange Hall, being re-routed by the RUC, when the grenade he was carrying exploded prematurely, killing him instantly. The mural and memorial shown above is at the top of Ainsworth Avenue, close to the spot of the incident. He died in hospital three days later (CAIN | Border & Border Politics | Irish News article at Nuzhound | Independent).
Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast
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“Shankill Rd supports the republican feud” – loyalist graffiti on Brookmount Street, Belfast. The graffiti perhaps refers to the killing of Andrew Burns (WP).
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The proposed flag for an independent Northern Ireland flies in the upstairs window of the Ulster Souvenirs shop on the Shankill Road, Belfast, along with a confederate flag. ‘Ulster nationalism’ was espoused by the UDA in the 70s and early 80s.
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“This mural is a memorial to the volunteers of A Coy 1st Batt [platoon No 1, 2, 4, and 5] who served the Shankill community so bravely during the years of conflict. Gone but not forgotten. Here lies a soldier.”
Canmore Street, Belfast. Previously seen in 2005.
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