The UDA and UVF/YCV share a wall in Matchett Street, Belfast. In the main (UVF) panel, two hooded gunmen with rifles kneel beneath additional weapons on either side the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Orange flag and Ulster banner.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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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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Wide shot and various close-ups of the boards (seen in progress in 1985) on what would become the youth centre in The Fountain, London-/Derry.
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UVF warning in the style of a cigarette packet: “Joining the RUC can damage your health”. Also “NF”. Pine Street, Londonderry.
For a similar republican graffito, see IRA Health Warning. For the murals on the far right, see King Billy/UDA.
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Three images from Wapping Lane in the Fountain, London-/Derry, showing two Orange arches — one with the Londonderry coat of arms and Walker’s pillar, one from the William King Memorial Flute Band —and a UDA board with Orange marchers carrying the flag of the Order and a Union jack.
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Here are a dozen images of the (in-progress) murals on the building at the junction of The Fountain/Wapping Lane/Kennedy Street (which is currently the Cathedral Youth Club) in London-/Derry. They include the arms of Londonderry, a Union Flag modified with six-pointed star, the red hand of Ulster, and the crest of the UDA.
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King Billy and horse on a plain background, between a small crowned star with red hand and a large crest of the UDA.
Ebrington Terrace, Waterside, Londonderry
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Darkly humorous mural in Bligh’s Gardens, Derry, parodying the ‘Discover Ireland’ tourism advertisements: “Discover Ireland: sectarian RUC, loyalist UDR, the H Blocks, plastic bullets, murdering UDA, British thugs, Armagh hell-hole, special courts … but I bet you haven’t seen the half of it.”
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“NF” “UDA” “UVF” “FTP” – graffiti in Hawkin Street, the Fountain, Londonderry.
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Copyright © 1978 Peter Moloney
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