UDA lieutenant Jackie Coulter was killed, along with Bobby Mahood, as part of the UVF-UDA feud of 2000. The earliest date we have for this mural is 2001, which would mean that it was painted separately from the Johnny Adair C Coy murals of 2000 and 2002.
Shankill Parade, west Belfast
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
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Cluan Place is a single street of 25 houses in east Belfast, hemmed in by the shops on the Albertbridge Road and by a “peace” line separating it from the (nationalist) Short Strand. Tensions between the two areas were particularly high in the early 2000s – see this Guardian article from 2002.
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Copyright © 2005 Peter Moloney
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Side-by-side in Parkhall Road, Antrim, are board to the 36th (Ulster) Division at the Battle of the Somme, and the local Steeple Defenders flute band (Fb) (and modern UVF and YCV).
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Copyright © 2003 Peter Moloney
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By 2002, the “Time for peace, time to go” mural in Beechfield Street, Belfast, painted in 1997, was beginning to show its age. The image is based on a photograph of British forces in the Falklands.
The image was also produced in Ardoyne (north Belfast), above the Sınn Féın offices/Sıopa Na hEalaíne (west Belfast), on Free Derry Corner, in Shantallow (Derry), and in Letterkenny.
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Copyright © 2002 Peter Moloney
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In-progress shot of the Young Conquerors Flute Band (Fb) “viking” mural in Pine Street, Belfast.
Here is the completed mural. The previous version had a cartoon viking at the centre – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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South Belfast MP Robert Bradford was assassinated by the Provisional IRA in Finaghy at a meeting with constituents; the caretaker of the community centre, Ken Campbell, was also killed by the fleeing attackers. In late 1981, with the hunger strikes having ended only a month before, the killing was noted around the world and raised fears of broad civil unrest (BBC | NYTimes).
“Vita, veritas, Victoria” [life, truth, victory] is the motto of Londonderry. Here we have “vita, veritas, victa” [life, truth, conquered; perhaps the intended meaning was “conquering” rather than the passive]. The crest is also not quite the crest of the Apprentice Boys, with a ship in the bottom right rather than a skeleton. Get in touch if you can resolve either discrepancy.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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UVF and YCV flags flying over a painted Union flag with “South Belfast Regiment II” in the centre. Eight thousand men signed up for the Ulster Volunteers from south Belfast. Charlotte Street.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Paint-bombed mural to members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Belfast Brigade, in the 36th (Ulster) Division, with (anachronistic) Ulster Banner and Union Flag: “they arose in the dark days to defend our native land for God and Ulster”, “And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, though shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them – Deuteronomy 7 verse 2”.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Ulster First Flute (Fb) mural in Linfield Gardens, Belfast. Blood drips from a red fist between solemn volunteers and the flags of Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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Chained-together padlocks represent Long Kesh and UDA/UFF prisoners of war (LPOW). For the four-quadrant shield, see Sans Peur.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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