Belfast

Rising Sons Flute Band

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“Rising Sons Flute Band (Fb) East Belfast 1985″ with the emblem of the Red Hand Commando on either side, flanking the insignia of the 36th (Ulster) Division, Ulster Volunteers, Royal Irish Rifles, UDR, and B-Specials (Ulster Special Constabulary). “Their name liveth forever more.” Seen in progress in 2005.

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Glentoran Community Trust

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Glentoran Community Trust (web) is a supporters trust (i.e. an outreach organisation from the club to the community) formalised in 2006. This mural celebrates the 125th anniversary of the club and highlights from its past, starting with the 1914 Vienna Cup (GFC). On the right of the mural, the Detroit Cougars were a locally-branded Glentoran team participating in a short-lived USA league playing during the summer (BelTel). The “proudest moment” (centre bottom) is the 1973-1974 Cup Winners’ Cup, in which Glentoran got through two rounds to reach the quarter finals (where they lost to Borussia Mönchengladbach). Famous players from the past are featured below the advertising hoarding, including Danny Blanchflower who began his career at Glentoran (WP).

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Shipyard Workers

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The Harland & Wolff shipyard is on Queen’s Island, a piece of land formed when the channel into Belfast was expanded. Workers would walk from east Belfast to the shipyard. This is the scene in (modern-day) Armitage Close/Harkness Parade in east Belfast, with a mural of turn-of-the-century shipyard workers by John Johnston, drawing inspiration from William Conor’s Shipyard Workers Crossing Queen’s Bridge and Over The Bridge.

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Tar Anall

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These three images from around Conway Mill are from 2008, before the mill was renovated. At the time, the mill was home to Tar Anall ex-prisoners’ centre and the Eileen Hickey Irish republican History Museum, as well as a print-shop and mattress store.

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Gibraltar/Milltown Martyrs

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2008 was the twentieth anniversary of the killing of IRA members Seán Savage, Danny McCann, and Maıréad Farrell in Gibraltar on March 6th, and the subsequent deaths related to their funerals: IRA volunteer Kevin McCracken was shot on the 14th near the Savage family home on the night the coffins arrived in Belfast and, at the funeral, Thomas McErlean, John Murray, and IRA volunteer Caoımhín Mac Bradaıgh were killed by the UDA’s Michael Stone. The Ballyseedy Memorial was used in the mural painted at the time.

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