The Ulster Banner, Union flag, St Andrew’s Saltire and the UVF’s own flag stand around the UVF red hand emblem (For God and Ulster, 1912), next to an LPOW hand in barbed wire.
The wide shot shows the accompanying YCV shamrock and an in-progress painting of the emblem of the 36th (Ulster) Division. For the completed version, see 1993.
Crumlin Road, Belfast, at Queensland and Tasmania streets.
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Loyalist prisoners of war (LPOW) mural in Rosebank Street, Belfast, with red hands wrapped in barbed wire, the Union flag and Ulster banner, under an assault rifle.
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“West Belfast Brigade UDA C Company”. UDA/UDF/LPA/UFF mural on the Shankill. (For a similar quartet of names and explanation of “UDF”, see Sans Peur.)
The title “First Ulster Defence Assoc.” is an attempt to tie together the defenders of Derry in 1688 (300th anniversary) with the modern Ulster Defence Association. This is an early attempt to give the UDA historical roots, beyond the Shankill and Woodvale Defence Associations. To this end, the group would adopt Cú Chulaınn (beginning in 1992 – see the Visual History page) and (beginning in 2007 – see UDU-UFF-UDA) the 1893 Ulster Defence Union as ancestors.
Canmore Street, west Belfast
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Graffiti in Westland Street, Derry. Compare this scene – in 1988 – with the same view from 1973.
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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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Small board with a red hand between barbs of wire, with union jack, Ulster banner, and symbols of UDA and UVF in the corners. “LPOW — Inprisoned for loyalty”. Hawkin Street, London-/Derry
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“Stop! Strip Searches” along with “Sınn Féın”, “Hoods beware” and “Sasanach Amach” on Beechmount Avenue, Belfast.
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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“LPOW” (Loaylist Prisoners Of War) on the outside of a stairwell in Kennedy Place/The Fountain, Londonderry
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Copyright © 1987 Peter Moloney
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“Patsy O’Hara, Derry, Political Prisoner, Murdered by the crown”.
Westland Street, Derry
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Copyright © 1985 Peter Moloney
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In large letters: “Give our POW’s their status”; on the side wall: “Patsy [O’Hara] we salute you and your comrades”.
Anne Street, Brandywell, Derry
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Copyright © 1984 Peter Moloney
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A lark in barbed wire, on a tricolour.
Bishop Street, Derry.
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Copyright © 1982 Peter Moloney
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