RHC board above the advertising hoarding on Lanark Way at Shankill Road, Belfast.
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Red Hand Commando
UVF/YCV/RHC/PAF
UVF
The UVF emblem is broken in two. For the whole, see C01427.
Wellwood Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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The Dark Days
Here is the Dark Days mural – combining imagery of WWI battlefield with a quote from Deuteronomy (7.2) – towards the end of its life, in 2005. Previously seen in 2001.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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South Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force
The flag of the Orange Order has a St George’s Cross and an orange five-pointed star on a purple field. The reverse colours (orange star, purple background) are used here as a UVF and Ulster Volunteers (1912) flag.
Pine Street, Donegall Pass, south Belfast
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Ulsters Peoples Soldiers
Were it not for the Red Hand Commando emblem to the right (second image) this could be a strictly WWI mural, with the crest of the 36th (Ulster) Division and flags of the Ulster Volunteers and battle honours of the YCV/Royal Irish Rifles 14th battalion. The RHC were formed in 1972. Newtownards Road, Belfast.
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Ulster Volunteer Force
UVF and YCV insignia in Pitt Place, east Belfast, in the shadow of one of the H&W cranes, with the community centre (Ballymac) on the right.
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East Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force
UVF territorial marking in east Belfast. McMaster Street, a few blocks west of the earlier UFF marking in Solway Street.
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A Dedication To All Our Fallen Comrades
UVF memorial mural in Lendrick Street, Belfast, with crest over the hoarding.
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We Are The Pilgrims, Master
“We are the pilgrims, master – we shall go always a little further” is a line from James Elroy Flecker’s verse poem Hassan and is inscribed on the clock tower of the the Hereford barracks of the SAS (WP). It is used here by “East Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force – The People’s Army”.
Tamar Street, east Belfast
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Lost Volunteers
“C Coy lost volunteers,” “In memory of the volunteers who made the supreme sacrifice” and “In memory of all loyalists who gave their lives – lest we forget.” Red Hand Commando mural and plaques in Hunt Street, just off the Newtownards Road, Belfast.
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