Londonderry UVF 1st battalion C company memorial mural in Sperrin Park in the Caw, with UVF and YCV boards on the fence in front, and RHC letters off to the side.
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A Northern Ireland-shaped Ulster Banner is wrapped in barbed wire.
Auglish Court, Caw, Londonderry
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Sınn Féın councillor (Buncrana Urban District Council and Donegal County Council) Eddie Fullerton was killed in his Buncrana home by the UDA in 1991.
Cockhill Cemetery, Buncrana
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Billy McFadzean won the Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery” at the Somme on July 1st, 1916, when he threw himself on a box of grenades that had fallen into the trench, with two pins becoming dislodged. The emblems of the UVF, YCV, and (modern) RHC are added.
Kinsale Park, Londonderry
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The 40m-long mural below the UFF and UWC murals in Lincoln Court, Londonderry, took three years to complete. It includes 36 animals and 57 people, and portraits of young people from the area. The official title of the piece is “I’m a local celebrity; get me out of here.” (Julius Guzy)
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“1st Batt, A Coy, Londonderry Waterside, Ulster Freedom Fighters.” Mural in Lincoln Court, Londonderry.
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“Undeterred and undefeated”. In May 1974, the Ulster Worker’s Council (led by H&W shop stewards and supported by the UDA) organised a strike protesting the December 1973 Sunningdale Agreement. After two weeks, the Executive collapsed and direct ruler from Westminster resumed.
The photograph reproduced can be seen on the Bel Tel.
Lincoln Court, Londonderry
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“In memory of Ben Redfern, Lindsay Mooney, Cecil McKnight, Gary Lynch, Ray Smallwoods, William Campbell. Lest we forget.” For Redfern and Lynch, see It’s Still Only Thursday; Smallwoods has a WP page; Campbell died in 2002 in a premature pipe-bomb explosion (Guardian).
Lincoln Court, Londonderry
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Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895. “Inspired by two Irishmen to escape from slavery Frederick Douglass came to Ireland during the famine. Henceforth he championed the abolition of slavery, women’s rights and Irish freedom.” “Perhaps no class has carried prejudice against colour to a point more dangerous than have the Irish and yet no people have been more relentlessly oppressed on account of race and religion. (Also by Douglass, and which would have made an apt quote for the mural: “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”)
Divis Street, Belfast.
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Additional plaques (along the side wall) have been added to the Lower Falls Memorial Garden (Falls Road, Belfast) – the first is of D Company members up to 1969, the second is of volunteers from the 1970s, the third is to civilians.
The final two images are close-ups of the main monument, seen previously (from a distance) in 2001.
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