UFF Manoeuvres

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UFF/UDA/LPA/UDF emblems in the four fields of an Ulster banner on a shield, flanked by Union flag and Saltire, with gunmen on manoeuvres in the countryside.

Crumlin Road, Belfast. To the left, and out of view to the left, are a pair of UVF murals.

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Copyright © 1988 LC
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Sans Peur

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The four fields of an Ulster banner shield bear the emblems (clockwise from top left) of the UFF (a red fist), the UDA (red hand), the UDF (Ulster Defence Force, golden wings with the motto “sans peur”, the French for “fearless”), and the LPA (Loyalist Prisoners Association, a red hand in barbed wire).

“UDF” is the “Ulster Defence Force”, a sub-group of the UDA with additional training in firearms and tactics, formed in 1985. According to Andy Tyrie, it was some of these gunmen who “restored to the UFF’s West Belfast C Company its ferocious reputation.” (Crimes Of Loyalty, p. 125).

Hawkin Street, Londonderry

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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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The Fountain

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Here are a dozen images of the (in-progress) murals on the building at the junction of The Fountain/Wapping Lane/Kennedy Street (which is currently the Cathedral Youth Club) in London-/Derry. They include the arms of Londonderry, a Union Flag modified with six-pointed star, the red hand of Ulster, and the crest of the UDA.

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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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