Boards in Charlotte Street, clockwise from left to right around giant YCV [Young Citizen Volunteers] lettering in red, white, and blue: Union flag, Ulster Banner, 36th (Ulster) Division, St Andrew’s Saltire, Union flag.
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In-progress shot of the Young Conquerors Flute Band (Fb) “viking” mural in Pine Street, Belfast.
Here is the completed mural. The previous version had a cartoon viking at the centre – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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A piper plays over a soldier’s grave in a mural commemorating South Belfast 2nd battalion UVF volunteers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Pine Street, Belfast.
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King Billy crossing the Boyne and trampling on a Jacobite soldier. This mural was painted in 1989 by a “H. Gibson” (according to the 2015 repainting). The original version of this mural was on the other side of the Pass, at the junction of Apsley Street and Howard Street South, next to a mural of the Lindsay Street arch dedicated to Robert Bradford. (See the Paddy Duffy Collection for both of these.) 1989 was the 25th anniversary of the erection of the arch in nearby Lindsay Street, but the arch was not painted into this mural until 2002.
Oak Street, Donegall Pass, south Belfast
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South Belfast MP Robert Bradford was assassinated by the Provisional IRA in Finaghy at a meeting with constituents; the caretaker of the community centre, Ken Campbell, was also killed by the fleeing attackers. In late 1981, with the hunger strikes having ended only a month before, the killing was noted around the world and raised fears of broad civil unrest (BBC | NYTimes).
“Vita, veritas, Victoria” [life, truth, victory] is the motto of Londonderry. Here we have “vita, veritas, victa” [life, truth, conquered; perhaps the intended meaning was “conquering” rather than the passive]. The crest is also not quite the crest of the Apprentice Boys, with a ship in the bottom right rather than a skeleton. Get in touch if you can resolve either discrepancy.
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The apocryphal book of the Bible Ecclesiasticus reads “their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore” (44:14), which is here applied to 910,000 “British empire casualties” from the Great War, including the Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers raised by “Sir Edward Carson” which became the 36th (Ulster) Division and particularly the Royal Irish Rifles and fought at the Somme 1916.
Apsley Street, south Belfast
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The Young Citizen Volunteers are the youth wing of the UVF. This mural shows them on manoeuvres in the countryside and in the local Donegall Pass area of the South Belfast 2nd battalion.
Walnut Street, south Belfast
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UVF and YCV flags flying over a painted Union flag with “South Belfast Regiment II” in the centre. Eight thousand men signed up for the Ulster Volunteers from south Belfast. Charlotte Street.
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“UDA” on a red, white, and blue tricoloured banner on a building site (Whitehall Square apartments). Napier Street, Belfast.
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A hooded gunman welcomes you to “loyalist Sandy Row, heartland of South Belfast Ulster Freedom Fighters. Quis separabit.” The wording is perhaps an imitation of Free Derry Corner.
Linfield Road, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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