“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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M04303
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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M04300
“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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M04299 [M04298] [M04297] [M04296]
“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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M04295
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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M04294
“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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M04293
“The People’s Army 1912-2002 – 90 years of resistance.” The top two panels show the “newly-formed Shankill Volunteers” “train[ing] at Fernhill estate, Glencairn” and then in 1916 the “9th RIR (West Belfast UVF) go over the top at the Somme.” Below, “volunteers defend the Shankill community from republican attack” in the 1969 riots in Bombay Street and environs, leading to the “crossroads” of 2002, with David Ervine holding a copy of the “Good Friday Agreement” on the road to “peace”.
Previously seen in 2005.
Canmore Street, Belfast
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“A UVF roadblock at Donaghadee, April 24/25th 1914, during gunrunning.” “Preparing to bear arms 1914; prepared to bear arms 2004.” The main landing was at Larne, but two small boats transported arms from the Clyde Valley in Larne to Donaghadee.
Spier’s Place, Belfast
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M02447
Talavera de la Reina is southwest of Madrid, Spain. The French, who had invaded Portugal but been driven out by British forces under Wellesley, fought the combined forces of the Spanish (previously allies of the French in the Peninsular War) and British armies. Writing on the side-wall will later be added (see X00327).
By Blaze FX in Hopewell Crescent.
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M04255
The ‘Freedom 2000’ Long Kesh/H-Blocks mural in the lower Shankill is repainted in orange, with “UDA”, “UFF” and “LPOW” from the previous version painted out.
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M04251
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