The Black Watch or Royal Highlanders was a Scottish infantry battalion during WWI. It is celebrated here in the Bowtown estate, Newtownards. The board is topped with both UDA and UVF flags.
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Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne was a rugby player, boxer, golfer, and solicitor, and in WWII a commando and one of the first members of the SAS (Special Air Service), participating in raids behind enemy lines in Egypt and Libya (depicted in the board above), and later, as SAS commander, in France, Belgium and other countries. His many decorations, including the DSO (four times) and French Croix De Guerre and Legion D’Honneur, are pictured below. His WP page includes an explanation of the ribbon bars.
Mayne was born in Newtownards and returned there at the end of the war. His statue stands in the town’s Conway Square and this board can be found in Queen Street.
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The shutters of the Union Jack Souvenir Shop on the Newtownards Road are painted with 36th (Ulster) Division and Royal Irish Regiment murals. The motto of the latter is “faugh-a-ballagh” an Anglicization of “fág an bealach” [leave the road].
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2010 mural (unveiled July 4th on the 40th anniversary) of Máıre Drumm (WP) and the women of West Belfast breaking the British army curfew of the Lower falls in 1970 (brief interview footage from the 9:00 minute mark). Máıre Drumm was later shot dead in her bed in the Mater hospital where she was a patient.
The commemorative plaque that was next to Elaine’s and the Sınn Féın office was later moved to the top right corner of the mural. [M05736]
International wall, Divis St, Belfast. (A shot of this mural being painted can be found here.)
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“This monument was erected by the republican people of greater Ballymurphy in proud and loving memory of all those volunteers from the area who gave their lives in the fight for Irish freedom.” Volunteers McParland, Kane, Maguire, Meehan, Sloan, McCormick, Campbell, Magee, Dougal, McCrudden, Clarke, Parker, Quigleey, Mulholland, O’Rawe, McGartland, Mulvenna, Pettigrew, Bryson, Teer, Stone, McGrillen, Tolan, McWilliams, Delaney, O’Neill, Jordan, Doyle, McCracken, McGeown. “Unveiled by Gerry Adams 12th May 1985. I ndıl cuımhne [chuımhne] i gcónaí ag na poblachtánaıgh ón cheantar Barr Cluanaí. Also in memory of the civilians who died at the hands of the British Army, RUC, UDR, and loyalist extremists.” The launch date of 1985 refers to the plaque’s former location in Glenalina Road (seen in 2001 and 2002).
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These are 2010 images of the Ballymurphy Massacre panels at the junction of the Springfield and Whiterock roads. The left-most panel, shown second, above, with information about Relatives For Justice, is new compared the early and in-progress shots from 2009. On the gable is Where’s The Joy?
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Insignia of the Royal Irish Rangers, the Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles, the 36th (Ulster) Division, the Paras, the B Specials, the Irish Guards, and the Ulster Defence Regiment, outside the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain, Londonderry, perhaps as inspiration to the young people, as many of the regiments still exist. The ‘odd man out’ here is the Paras – they served in Northern Ireland but were not raised from Ireland.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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“In memory of Robert (Guinney) McGuinness murdered by British troops on 26th June 1973. Always remembered by his friends.” McGuinness was shot from a saracen on the 22nd near his home and died four days later. Those on the scene recount his death in this Derry Journal article.
Brandywell Avenue, Derry
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Bogside Republican Youth graffiti at the top of Durrow Park. “Azimcar” and “Quincy” are British Army sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey killed in an attack on Massereene Barracks in March 2009 by the Real IRA.
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The three “Brits” are probably the two British sappers killed by the Real IRA at Massareene barracks and a PSNI constable shot by the CIRA two days later, on March 9th.
Lecky Road, Derry
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