2001 image of the Sandy Row UDA funeral volley mural previously seen in 1997. The same “fuck Rangers” graffitist who sprayed the Sandy Row UFF ‘wings’ mural also got to this mural. “In proud memory of our fallen comrades. We forget them not – at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Boyne Court, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Sandy Row mural with large wings behind UFF and UDA flags and insignia, with hooded gunmen on either side and “Fuck Rangers” graffiti.
Albion Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
M01516
2001 image of the masked volunteers previously seen in 1997 in Lower Stanfield Street. It is extremely unusual for a (republican) “hooded gunman” mural to survive to this date. We conjectured in the earlier post that the creation of the mural dates to the period between the ceasefires.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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A mural of traditional republican symbols – armed and masked volunteers with celtic cross, phoenix, pikes, Tricolour and Sunburst flags – but unusual for 1997. Perhaps it dates to the period before the second/renewed ceasefire, on July 19th. Stanfield Place, Belfast. M01346
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
M01346
Three panels in a row with Ulster First FLute, UVF/PAF/YCV, 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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Masked volunteers brandishing Uzis stand on either side of the UVF emblem (“For God and Ulster”) and Ulster banner and UVF 1912 flags. “Sandy Row 2nd Batt, UVF, YCV, PAF.”
Albion Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01186
UFF and LPA/LPOW mural on Newtownards Road with masked volunteer and rifle, with the “U” in barbed wire. (The words “East Belfast Brigade” would later be added in the middle.) With a quote modelled on the Declaration of Arbroath: “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.” (Originally, “for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”)
This is the first gable on the so-called “Freedom Corner” (though it is not clear if it bore this name at the time of this image); here is the next gable.
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Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
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Three volunteers stand formally to make a statement: “And finally a message to our enemies: it is not just an army you face but the might of a people sworn and determined to be free.” 1916-1983 A similar sentiment but with three volunteers on manoeuvres.
Ballycolman, Strabane
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Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00889
Nine hooded republican volunteers, employing an assortment of weapons – rifles, RPG launcher, drogue bomb, machine gun – against a rising sun in South Link, Belfast. “We will have our day.” The trio in the bottom right corner are familiar from other murals, such as this one in Strabane.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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A masked volunteer with armalite on Springfield Road, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1989 Peter Moloney
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