Northern Ireland

Free Our Prisoners

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“In memory of our freedom fighters who fought and died for Ulster. It was not for glory they fought nor honour or riches but freedom alone which no good man should lose but with his life.” A three-panel UFF mural in Linfield Road. A scroll with four emblems (UDA, UYM, UFF and Ulster banner); flags of the UDA and Scotland with manacled red fists and an outline of Northern Ireland superimposed with the Ulster banner, between emblems of the LPA and another prisoners’ organisation; a kneeling volunteer from A battalion, south Belfast’s Sandy Row.

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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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Then And Now, 1912 – 1987

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“They fought then for the cause of Ulster, we will fight now.” The 75th anniversary of the Ulster Volunteers is celebrated in this mural in Dover Place, west Belfast. On the left of the Northern Island is an Ulster Volunteer in period (1912) garb standing on a patch of ground, on the right, a modern (1987) paramilitary in hood and fatigues standing on a city footpath. The Ulster Volunteers as such did not fight for Ulster – they instead joined the British Army and fought “for King and Empire” in WWI, after which Home Rule was applied only to 26 counties of Ireland and Northern Ireland was created and remained within the UK.

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Copyright © 1988 LC
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Shankill Supports All The Loyalist Prisoners

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Both UVF and UDA emblems (as well as PAF and YCV) in the quadrants of an Ulster banner shield with Northern Island in the middle. Union flags on the side and barbed wire above. No 5 of 9 on the south side of Percy Place, Belfast.

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Copyright © 1988 Peter Moloney
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Loyalist Triptych

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Three loyalist murals side-by-side: the Union jack in the shape of Northern Ireland, a red hand of Ulster and crown on the six-pointed star, between St Andrew’s Saltire and the Union flag, and a (UDA?) volunteer with rifle.

Location unknown — perhaps the old Shankill Parade?

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