The left-most mural (No. 1 of 9) in Percy Place, Belfast. The central motif of a red hand on a Saltire is unusual. 1690 is the date of King William III’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne.
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These two murals are side-by-side in Craven Street. On the right, a farmer’s wife defends the farm (the stone wall) in order to preserve it as part of the UK (the Union Flag) despite the threat of Home Rule; on the left, “in proud and loving memory” of three UVF volunteers assassinated by the IRA: Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy, John Bingham, and William “Frenchie” Marchant. “Lest we forget.”
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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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Three loyalist murals side-by-side: the Union jack in the shape of Northern Ireland, a red hand of Ulster and crown on the six-pointed star, between St Andrew’s Saltire and the Union flag, and a (UDA?) volunteer with rifle.
Location unknown — perhaps the old Shankill Parade?
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Loyalist prisoners of war (LPOW) mural in Rosebank Street, Belfast, with red hands wrapped in barbed wire, the Union flag and Ulster banner, under an assault rifle.
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Small board with a red hand between barbs of wire, with union jack, Ulster banner, and symbols of UDA and UVF in the corners. “LPOW — Inprisoned for loyalty”. Hawkin Street, London-/Derry
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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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Here is a faded and vandalised version (with “PIRA suck shit”) of 1986’s Stad Maggie Anoıs. Beechmount Avenue.
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Here are later-in-the-year images of the murals in The Fountain, Londonderry – the building (which would later become the Cathedral Youth Club) is showing some wear and tear. See previously in 1986 The Fountain and for the murals in progress in 1985.
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The Fountain, Londonderry.
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