YCV – UVF – RHC

Here is a trio of loyalist boards in Dennet Gardens, Londonderry with the insignia of the Young Citizen Volunteers, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Commandos. The design of a garland of flowers containing a regimental insignia dates to the Ulster Volunteers of 1912; the masked volunteers standing to attention do not.

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Copyright © 1998 Peter Moloney
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Sandy Row 2nd Batt

Three panels in a row with Ulster First Flute, UVF/PAF/YCV (seen in 1995), and UDA insignia. In the middle, on either side of the UVF’s “for God and Ulster”, masked volunteers carry Uzis.

Albion Street, Belfast, just off Sandy Row.

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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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We Will Never Accept A United Ireland

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“We Will Never Accept A United Ireland” and “Ulster still says No”. UVF and PAF insignia, and a volunteer with raised first on the Union Flag-covered island of Northern Ireland. Replaces Northern Island.

Percy Place, Shankill, west Belfast

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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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Killed In Action

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This is an early version of the Brian Robinson mural in Disraeli Street, Belfast. It features Robinson’s portrait in a wreath (“For God and Ulster – 1st Batt. B. Coy”) and the emblems of the UVF and PAF. It would later be modified to include flags and a scroll. Robinson was shot by the British Army in 1989 immediately after he had shot and killed a Catholic (Paddy McKenna) walking along Crumlin Road.

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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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Britain’s Death Squads

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Painted in 1989 and badly damaged by 1990: Britain’s death squads: UDA and UVF behind the sunglasses and mask on one side, the UDR and RUC on the other, with clothing and skin stripped away, and the British Army at the bottom. To the left of shot is Dagda and to the right Union Jack Crumbling.

Painted by Mo Chara Kelly in Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.

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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
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