The date given here for the creation of the UVF is 1914; the ‘end date’ was anticipated to be sometime in the 20th century, but the board has survived into 2006.
Dennet Gardens, Irish Street, Londonderry
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The Union flag, Ulster Banner, YCV, and NI football flags flying on lamp-posts in Rossdowney Road, Londonderry
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Anti-Catholic graffiti in Rossdowney Road, Londonderry.
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The Bloody Sunday mural by the Bogside Artists is covered in scaffolding in preparation for an update. The sigs and info board are from 2007.
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Seven of the murals along the Bogside’s Lecky Road and Rossville Street – that would in 2007 be made ‘The People’s Gallery’ – are visible from the old Derry city walls. The Gallery has its own Visual History page.
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Anti-immigrant graffiti in Roulston Avenue, Waterside, Londonderry.
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The British Ulster Alliance is a flute band with a ‘British nationalist’ ideology that occasionally travelled to Northern Ireland to attend marches, such as one in the White City (north of Belfast) in 2006 (Mirror). There was a Rathcoole mural to the band in 2001 (see J0823).
The Union Flag is a composite of the St George’s Cross (England), St Andrew’s Saltire (Scotland), and the Order of St Patrick/St Patrick’s Saltire (Ireland). No Welsh flag is included in the Union Flag. The Northern Irish flag (Ulster Banner) is based on the flag of Ulster.
Fountain Street, Londonderry
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The UDA are known as “the wombles” because the fur-trimmed parkas they worn in the early days made them look like the television characters (here is season 1, episode 1).
Sperrin Park, the Caw, Londonderry
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Eddie The Head (in the guise of The Trooper) continues to storm over the Bogside, almost a decade after first being painted. Eddie has his own Visual History page.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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The UVF mural and the boards (on the fence) in Sperrin Park, the Caw, Londonderry are decked out in a variety of flags for the summer season.
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