Elizabeth Windsor became queen of the United Kingdom in February, 1952, fifty-five years before this mural was painted in Rockview Street, south Belfast.
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Copyright © 2008 Peter Moloney
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This We Will Maintain
UK royalty
The Queen’s Golden Jubilee
Lord Street mural the ERII’s golden (50th) jubilee in 2002. The building on the left is unknown (please get in touch if you can identify it); the previous Ledley Hall school (now Ledley Hall youth club) is on the right.
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Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
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Golden Jubilee
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom in 1952 (she was crowned in 1953). 2002 was her golden jubilee year. See also Long To Reign Over Us and HM Queen Elizabeth II (which also has UDA sponsorship) and Long May She Reign.
Cashel Drive, Monkstown
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
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Long May She Reign
“HM Queen Elizabeth II 1952-2012”. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom in 1952 (she was crowned in 1953). 2002 was her golden jubilee year. See also Long To Reign Over Us and HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Cashel Drive, Monkstown
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
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HM Queen Elizabeth II
“HM Queen Elizabeth II 1952-2012”. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom in 1952 (she was crowned in 1953). 2002 was her golden jubilee year. See also Long To Reign Over Us. The ‘sponsorship’ box reads “This mural was commissioned by 1st batt A coy South East Antrim UDA UFF UYM.” It would later be completely whited out and later painted over in black. It is undamaged in J1444.
Owenreagh Dr, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey
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Copyright © 2006 Peter Moloney
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The Queen Mother
“HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.” The mural includes a portrait of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, wife of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II, her coat of arms (see also Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense), and a verse (sightly modified) from the Orange song The Bible And The Crown: “Salute our sovereign now we part/To us our Queen was dear/Because she had a soldier’s heart/And man she did not fear.//Her soul forlorn she will not scorn,/Where her worth is known/No rebel hate will harm this state,/The bible and the crown.” She died in 2002 at age 101. The four flags are those of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Conway Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
M02444
No INLA
This image has “Brits out” and “Fuck the queen” graffiti but more interesting is “No INLA”, which was then replaced by “IRA” in tricolours.
Fountain Hill, Derry
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
For the fiftieth anniversary of her coronation in 1953, a portrait of Elizabeth the second, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She is surrounded by the flowers of Ireland (shamrock), England (rose), Wales (daffodil), Scotland (thistle). “Shame to he who thinks bad of it” is in Anglo-Norman French.
Bond’s Place, Waterside, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
M02021
Warning: Sniper
Here are two nail-ups from Ballycolman Avenue, Strabane: “Fuck the queen” and “RIRA” on one pole, and a “sniper at work” road sign on the other.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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Hunger Games
Queen Victoria and entourage paddle along the Irish shore at the end of the Great Hunger. (Here are one | two discussions of her visit and (un)involvement with famine relief.) Work by Rosie McGurran (Fb) in the old Linden Street, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
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