Belfast

Welcome To The Shankill Road

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The red hand of Ulster in three configurations: “We are proud, defiant, welcoming.” Mural by Blaze FX depicting polaroids of the blitz, the Twelfth, sports, murals. The location of the mural is designed to be seen by tourists travelling between the so-called International Wall (and Northumberland Street murals) and the Shankill.

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Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag

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The mural to UDA assassin Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag is again (or, still?) in progress. Compared to the 2009 version (itself incomplete) the poppies around the portrait have lost their leaves (perhaps due to a new background colour) and his dates of birth and death have been turned into a Union Flag and Ulster Banner. See also 2008 and 2007.

Hopewell Crescent, west Belfast

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1st Shankill Somme Association

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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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C Company Roll Of Honour

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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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