Three in a row in Greyabbey Gardens, Monkstown: UFF, LPA, and UYM, emblems.
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Loyalist Monkstown
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Monkstown UFF 1st Batt
Three UDA volunteers in balaclavas and carrying assault rifles stand on an Ulster Banner in the shape of Northern Ireland.
Ards Park, Monkstown, Newtownabbey
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Monkstown UDA
Hooded UDA gunmen in Devenish Drive, Monkstown.
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UDA South East Antrim
UFF hooded gunman, from South East Antrim brigade 1st battalion C company, with balaclava and assault rifle, in Devenish Drive, Monkstown.
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Monkstown UDA
Three UDA hooded gunmen from the [South East Antrim brigade] 1st battalion strike shooting poses in front of the (old) Whiteabbey viaducts.
Devenish Drive, Monkstown
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UDA – UVF
Something of a turf war in Monkstown: a UFF board on top of a UVF stencil in Devenish Drive, with a UVF board just round the corner in Cashel Drive.
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Golden Jubilee
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom in 1952 (she was crowned in 1953). 2002 was her golden jubilee year. See also Long To Reign Over Us and HM Queen Elizabeth II (which also has UDA sponsorship) and Long May She Reign.
Cashel Drive, Monkstown
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Staunch We Shall Remain
“The blood our comrades shared/will not have been in vain//Their honour we remember/and staunch we shall remain.” UDA/UFF walls at the entrance to Rathfern. The second image, of the upper wall, shows to small portraits of Eddie The Trooper.
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Rathfern UDA
Posing in front of the Cloughfern Arms: on the left, masked men with assault rifles from UDA [South East Antrim] 1st batt, B coy; on the right, standard bearers for the CYC (Cloughfern Young Conquerors).
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Cloughfern Young Conquerors
The version of Eddie The Trooper in Cloughfern carries an assault rifle and a Cloughfern Young Conquerors (flute band) flag, founded in 1973 – the same year as the UFF – and “still undefeated”. He wears plaid/tartan trousers – perhaps a reference to Rathcoole Kill All Irish or other tartan gang. (Eddie has his own Visual History page.)
On the crosses are written the names of bands from the Rathcoole area (that no longer exist) “G. Blair Mem” [George Blair Memorial Flute Band – a UVF band], “WPB” [Whiteabbey Protestant Boys], “Sons Of KAI“, “Dam Busters” [Dam Busters Flute Band Newtownabbey], and “EAV” [East Antrim Volunteers – a UVF band]. (Thanks to Joe K for the information about the bands.)
“RUC?” might refer to the shifting attitudes towards the police service (PSNI).
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