After the row of houses on which it originally appeared was knocked down, the mural to the North Belfast UVF/YCV/PAF [Protestant Action Force] “Prepared for peace, ready for war”, with its two hooded gunmen, was moved up on the hill, at eye-level with the motorway roundabout c. 2001.
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“Men whom the lusts of office do not kill/Men whom the spoils of office do not buy/Men who possess opinions and will/Men who love honour; men who cannot lie” – part of a poem by Josiah Gilbert Holland.
The men on the left of the mural are Captain James Craig (who fought in the Second Boer War before becoming a unionist leader, organiser of the the Ulster Volunteers, and first Prime Minister Of Northern Ireland) and Major Frederick Crawford, who fought in both Boer Wars and organised the Larne gunrunning.
The four others, listed both on the plaque in front of the mural and on the stone in the memorial garden (constructed in 2003) are UVF volunteers Robert Seymour, shot dead by the PIRA; James Cordner and Joseph Long, who were killed in a premature explosion, and Robert Bennett, killed by the British Army during a riot. (Seymour and Long are on the right of the mural.)
Fraser Pass, east Belfast
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“RHC” [Red Hand Commando] lettering in the blocked-up windows of the Con Club, Hemp Street, Belfast.
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2006 image of the RHC stencil in Hunt Street, Belfast, seen previously in 2005.
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Here are some close-ups of the UVF/RHC mural in Hunt Street, east Belfast, seen previously in 2005.
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Hunt Street, east Belfast
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“We are the pilgrims, master; we shall always go a little further.” Copy of a UVF Tamar Street mural (perhaps after that area was redeveloped) above Cheepers on the Newtownards Road, Belfast. Below that is the view from Chamberlain Street in 2008, looking out over the red-white-and-blue kerbstones.
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The date given here for the creation of the UVF is 1914; the ‘end date’ was anticipated to be sometime in the 20th century, but the board has survived into 2006.
Dennet Gardens, Irish Street, Londonderry
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The Union flag, Ulster Banner, YCV, and NI football flags flying on lamp-posts in Rossdowney Road, Londonderry
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The UVF mural and the boards (on the fence) in Kinsale Park, Caw, Londonderry are decked out in a variety of flags for the summer season.
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