2008 view of the IRA/Fıanna memorial garden in Berwick Road, Belfast. The pieces remain as before (see 2002).
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Freedom Hath Arisen
Belfast
Sean McCaughey
The Sean McCaughey board, previously seen in 2006 (though dating to 2005), is showing its age.
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Ard Eoın Kickhams
Kickhams is the local Cumann Luthchleas Gael (GAA club) (Fb | tw), founded 1907, named for republican writer Charles Kickham. The mural shows football, hurling, and handball. At the bottom there are three generations of toddler hurlers, from barefoot and cloth-cap to boots and braces to baseball cap and tracksuit.
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Local Republican Activists
“This mural is dedicated to the memory of those local republican activists who devoted their lives to the cause of Irish freedom. Ar son na cıse [sic]. Oglaıgh [sic] na hÉıreann. Unveiled by Sınn Féın councillors Martin Meehan and Margaret McClenaghan.”
“A, D, F foıreannacha, cathlann 3ru [sic], brıogaıd [sic] mBeal [sic] Feırste.
“‘Many suffer so that some day future generations may live in justice and peace’ – Vol Bobby Sands.”
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Larry Marley
“This plaque is dedicate to IRA Volunteer Larry Marley, assassinated in his home at Havana Gardens by loyalists in collusion with British crown forces on the 2nd April 1987.” Marley’s funeral was obstructed by security forces for several days, with scenes from Ardoyne being broadcast worldwide.
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LVF Scum
“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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WDA
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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Herbie McCallum
“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
“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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One Island, Two Nations
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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