Baord on the back of Free Derry Corner for the ninth annual Gasyard Wall Féıle (the first was in 1993).
Lecky Road, Derry
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Gasyward Wall Féıle
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Éıre Nua Flute Band
The Éıre Nua board at the top of the Whiterock Road, Belfast, seen previously in 1997 is updated: originally it said 1981-1996 and now says 1981-1999. It is next to Equality Now.
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Féıle Na Samhna
“Féıle na Samhna – ceılıúradh na nGael” (Samhain festival – celebration of the Irish” at An Gaeláras Doıre (now Cultúrlann Uí Chanáın).
Rear of Free Derry corner, Lecky Road, Derry.
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The Celtic Football Club
The first mural to Scottish soccer team Celtic (and local team Derry City) in the collection. There is a shamrock in the bottom right.
Drumleck Drive, Shantallow, Derry
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They Shall Not Pass
“In memory of their victims … they shall not pass.” An elaborate celtic cross in memory (i ndil cuimhne) of Troubles victims from Catholic south Belfast and a promise to block Orange Order parades in the lower Ormeau.
Farnham Street, south Belfast
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YCV
Boards in Charlotte Street, clockwise from left to right around giant YCV [Young Citizen Volunteers] lettering in red, white, and blue: Union flag, Ulster Banner, 36th (Ulster) Division, St Andrew’s Saltire, Union flag.
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Young Conquerors Flute Band
In-progress shot of the Young Conquerors Flute Band (Fb) “viking” mural in Pine Street, Belfast.
Here is the completed mural. The previous version had a cartoon viking at the centre – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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Their Name Liveth For Evermore
The apocryphal book of the Bible Ecclesiasticus reads “their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore” (44:14), which is here applied to 910,000 “British empire casualties” from the Great War, including the Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers raised by “Sir Edward Carson” which became the 36th (Ulster) Division and particularly the Royal Irish Rifles and fought at the Somme 1916.
Apsley Street, south Belfast
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South Belfast Regiment
UVF and YCV flags flying over a painted Union flag with “South Belfast Regiment II” in the centre. Eight thousand men signed up for the Ulster Volunteers from south Belfast. Charlotte Street.
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The Dark Days
Paint-bombed mural to members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Belfast Brigade, in the 36th (Ulster) Division, with (anachronistic) Ulster Banner and Union Flag: “they arose in the dark days to defend our native land for God and Ulster”, “And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, though shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them – Deuteronomy 7 verse 2”.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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