The loyalist Highfield and Springmartin areas have been “Under the protection of the UDA since 1972”. Highcairn Drive is at the edge of Highfield, next to Springmartin.
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More precisely, UFF/UDA Taughmonagh. Finnis Drive, in south Belfast.
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No surrender! Let no one question the loyalty of this graffitist in Wapping Lane, Londonderry. Quis separabit!
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The orange lily makes a rare appearance in a paramilitary mural. The hooded gunmen are from the UFF/UDA. Volunteer Stephen “Benson” Kingsberry is remembered in the panel towards the back of the house. He died from consuming tainted ecstasy (perhaps distributed by the UVF). He was included in the roll of honour in Lemberg Street. Kilburn Street, Belfast. Seen previously in 2005.
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“In loving memory South Belfast Brigadier John McMichael, South Belfast UFF commander Joe Bratty.” Listed on the tombstones are Steven Audley 17 Mar 91, Harry Black 30 Sep 92, Jim Kenna 25 Jul 72, Frankie Smith 31 Jan 73, William Kingsberry 13 Nov 91, Stephen Kingsberry 10 Mar 97, Ernie Dowds 10 Oct 95, Sammy Hunt 5 Sep 76, Raymie Elder 31 Jul 94, William Hamilton 9 Sep 94, Tommy Morgan 29 Aug 94.
Lemberg Street, south Belfast
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A plaque is added to the Robert Dougan mural in Blythe Street, Belfast. Compare to the mural in 2007.
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The UDA memorial garden is just off Sandy Row, near the John McMichael Centre.
One board (shown fourth) reproduces a mural (see 2005 M02408) from nearby Rowland Way, which was itself a repaint of an earlier (see 1995 M01183 and 2001 M01518) mural, though updated to note the “distinguished service” of Samuel Curry.
The same thirteen names also appear on the “roll of honour” plaque in the garden. The South Belfast UDA/UFF commander John McMichael was killed by an IRA car bomb in 1987. In addition to organising a team of assassins in the 70s and 80s, he founded a Political Research Group and wrote two documents proposing an independent Northern Ireland. Joe Bratty was killed, along with “Raymie” Elder, by the IRA in 1994 (WP).
City Way, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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The image of the McMichael board, added later, is from 2013. The same board was mounted in Lisburn: One Man, One Love, One Country.
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UFF graffiti on the side of the Days Hotel (later a Holiday Inn) in Sandy Row.
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The phrase “They rose in dark and evil days to free our native land” comes from the song ‘The Memory Of The Dead‘, about the 1798 Rebellion, rather than the creation of the UDA in 1971.
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South East Antrim Defenders mural adjacent to Spike in Carnhill Place, Carrickfergus. The UDA is not mentioned explicitly but the coat of arms is in the UDA style.
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