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Loyal Stoneyford

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Here is a gallery of images from the village of Stoneyford, ten miles north of Lisburn. The view in the final image is from the cross-roads at north end of the village, with the brazier next to the WWI memorial visible on the right, and the nameplate on the fence on the left. The Orange Hall is in the middle of the village. The village was a centre for the small anti-Agreement organisation the “Orange Volunteers” (WP).

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No Maze Shrine

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A plan for a “peace and conflict resolution” centre at HMP Maze was approved in April 2013 (Guardian) but the plans were scuppered before the end of the year (BBC) thanks in part to unionist objections that it would focus on prisoners rather than victims (BBC).

The other placard also refers to another controversy from 2013, the flying of the Union Flag at Belfast City Hall, which began with the December 2012 decision to fly the flag on 18 days a year, but which petered out the following spring.

Steeple Road, Antrim

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Loyalist Liscolman

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The main panel reads: “Liscolman Protestant Boys remember 1914-1918. 36th (Ulster) Division. Robert Quigg, VC. Sons of Ulster, Somme 1916. When you go home, tell them of us and say,/for their tomorrow, we gave our today.”

On the left: 1914-1918. Private Charles Allen, Rifleman Robert Moore, Rifleman William Moore, Lieuftenant Thomas Patrick Craig, Private Archibald Nicholl, Sergeant Samuel James Holmes, Rifleman James Laverty. Without limit.”

On the right: “Heart and hame” and what is perhaps a mill chimney.

Toberdoney Road, Liscolman. With red-white-and-blue kerb-stones in Carnbore Road, and coping- and kerb-stones in Toberdoney Road.

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Red Hand Defenders

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There are four loyalist paintings on the street surface in Portavogie, beginning with the crest of the Red Hand Defenders flute band (Fb) “Formed in 1979” and the Portavogie Young Volunteers.

Harbour Road and Main Road, Portavogie

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We’ll Not Be Mastered By No Rebel Basterds

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Here is a gallery of 27 images from loyal Mullaghglass, on the outskirts of Newry. In addition to Union Flags, Ulster Banners, and UVF/RHC emblems, we see a number of PAF [Protestant Action Force] emblems, the South Down Defenders flute band, and a portrait of QEII.

Armagh Road, Newry

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