“Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” – the words of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata used in an “undefeated” UDA/UFF board in Carnany Park, with hooded gunmen standing on an independent Northern Ireland-shaped Ulster Banner.
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“For as long as one hundred of us remain alive, we shall never in any way consent to submit to the rule of the Irish. For it is not for glory we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life.” This is a modified version of the (English translation of the) Declaration of Arbroath, declaring Scotland’s independence from England. UDA North Antrim-Londonderry brigade.
Carnany Gardens, Ballymoney
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The UVF’s Red Hand Commando are inspired by the British Army’s SAS and uses a similar image for its emblem: instead of wings on a sword, RHC uses wings on a red hand. [East Belfast] C company mural in Ballybeen. ‘Lamh dearg abu’ = ‘red hand to victory’.
Upper Newtownards Road
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“Where so ever, how so ever or whenever we are called upon to make our exit, we shall do so as proud men.” (Another UVF mural in east Belfast has “as free men”.) A hooded gunman from the Red Hand Commando stands at the ready. The first of the four crests is the (rare, possibly restricted to the Morven Park murals) “RHC Youth”; then PAF, UVF, and YCV.
Morven Park, Ballybeen
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Two [East Belfast brigade] 3rd battalion hooded gunmen with raised assault rifles flank the emblem of the UFF in Banff Walk, Ballybeen.
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“Wheresoever, howsoever or whenever we are called upon to make our exit, we shall do so as free men. – UVF East Belfast.” Three hooded gunmen frame a verse from Laurence Binyon’s For The Fallen.
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From left to right, here are the murals and memorial garden in Kenbaan Street, Belfast, to the UFF/UDA/UYM, and LPA [Loyalist Prisoners Association]. The plaques include a few names of volunteers who died after the peace (as recently as 2002).
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M03376 M03377 M03775 [M03774] [M03773] [M03772] [M03768] M03770 M03769 M03771Copyright © 2009 Peter Moloney
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2013 LPA close-up [M10649]
Kevin Lynch, from nearby Dungiven, was the seventh of the 1981 hunger strikers to die and the second from the INLA.
Dove Gardens, Derry
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The mural to the first child killed in the Troubles, Annette McGavigan, entitled The Death Of Innocence, was repainted by the Bogside Artists in 2006. On account of the success of the peace process and IRA decommissioning of weapons, the rifle on the left is broken. The info board is from 2007.
Previously seen in 1999 in progress | 2000 | 2004.
See also the Visual History page on The People’s Gallery.
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These hand-drawn BRY/RIRA murals are a montage of many traditional republican symbols, such as Celtic FC, the Easter lily, Bobby Sands, an assault rifle, the Tricolour and a crude island of Ireland. Plus support for Basque separatists ETA. “CRF” = “Catholic Reaction Force”?
Dove Gardens, Derry
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