These placards are around the base of the Whitehead bonfire. From left to right:
“Peter Robinson Marty’s puppet”,
“Alliance SDLP Sinn Fein scum – you’ll never break our Ulster British culture”,
“Parades Commission vermin once again dance to IRA scum. Time for every loyal Ulsterman to stand & fight!!”,
“Alliance Party shove your shared future”.
Marine Road, Whitehead
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The Ulster Tower at Thiepval, France, is a replica of Helen’s Tower in Clandeboye, around which the 36th (Ulster) Brigade, which formed in August 1914 from the Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers, began their training (see this gallery of images from North Down Museum at BBC-NI). After a year of training in Ireland and England, the Division was deployed to France in September 1915.
In the top corners are two views of the local Scrabo Tower. Produced by muraltec.
Ilex Avenue, Newtownards
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“35th anniversary 1977-2012 Pride Of The Bann [flute band Fb], Coleraine. Marching into the future.”
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“1st July 1916. Somme soldiers killed, wounded, missing, 36th (Ulster) Division, 32,186. To the memory and sacrifice of the brave young men from North Antrim who gave their lives with countless others at the Somme and other battles during the Great War 1914-18, to restore peace in Europe. To them bravery was without limit; to us memory is without end.”
With the three verses of John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields’.
“”For these things do I weep; my eyes flow with tears.” Lamentations 1 Vs. 16“
Castlecat Road, Dervock
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“From North Antrim To Gettysburg. ‘On this July morning my heart recalls the summer fields of hame, the townland of my mother, the sound and smells of the lower meadow. These memories I carry into battle between the drum beats of my heart.’ John McPherson, Confederate soldier, Gettysburg July 1st 1863. This mural marks the Trans-Atlantic heritage of our ancestors who set out from these fields, shores and townlands to establish a new life, and in doing so, helped create the United States of America.”
See also: the Visual History page on Ulster-Scots murals.
This board replaces the Mosside version of Eddie The Trooper.
Rockfield Gardens, Mossside
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A three-stone memorial to army soldiers in Tullycarnet, featuring a line from the gospel of John (“Greater love has no-one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” 15:13) and a song by Randall Wallace for the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers called ‘The Mansions of the Lord’: To fallen soldiers let us sing, where no rockets fly nor bullets wing, our broken brothers let us bring, to the mansions of the Lord. No more weeping, no more fight, no prayers pleading through the night, just divine embrace, eternal light, in the mansions of the Lord. Where no mothers cry and no children weep, we will stand and guard though the angels sleep, Oh through the ages safely keep, the mansions of the Lord.”
By Ross Wilson with support from the International Fund For Ireland (IFI)
The garden of reflection is in front of a mural reading “Time for peace. Invest in kids … not war!”. The image of a boy playing with a ball against a wall is based on a 1994 photograph by Crispin Rodwell. The slogan in the photograph, originally, was “Time for peace; time to go” but for publication, as here, the second part was cropped out.
King’s Road, Tullycarnet
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Tullycarnet Flute Band murals on the electrical sub-station in Lochinver Drive, Tullycarnet. The middle plaque reads “In memory of Steven Dawson (Big Penny) Gone but not forgotten. A light shone in the night” and the one to the right reads “In memory of Joseph Baxter Corry (Joe) Gone but not forgotten. You’ll always be in our hearts. Farewell our absent friend.”
The lion and the unicorn are from the UK coat of arms.
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Two poems are featured prominently and another two alluded to in this Newtownards mural and memorial garden to WWI soldiers. The central panel features part of an anti-war work by by Owen Griffiths, Lest We Forget. Robert Laurence Binyon’s For The Fallen is featured on the stone, above a line of Latin from Horace’s Odes (III.2) – On Virtue (which most famously re-appears in Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est). On the left and right there appear the mottos of the Royal Irish Rifles – ‘Quis separabit’, which comes from Romans 8:35 – and the Royal Artillery – ‘Ubique – Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt’, which comes from Kipling’s Ubique.
For the (WWI) 13th battalion RIR, see Regimental List and similarly for the 16th (rather than the 17th) “Pioneers”. For the (WWII) 5th Anti-Aircraft battery, see Newtownards History.
Tower Court, Newtownards
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“I am not an Ulsterman [but] yesterday, the 1st of July 1916, as I followed their amazing attack, I felt I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world.” The words of Captain Wilfrid (here given as “Wilfred”) Spender replace a Steeple Defenders board that has presumably fallen into disrepair alongside a board showing a soldier from the 36th Division running through no-man’s land (both seen previously in 2003 and 2009).
For a fuller quote, see X04435 from south Belfast.
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This trio of boards in memory of WWI dead from the Ulster Volunteers replaces the single black board first seen in 2003 in Steeple Defenders.
On the left: “Pass not this spot in sorrow but in pride/That you may live as nobly as they died.” These lines are also used in a WWI memorial mural in Carlingford Street, Belfast.
On the right: “They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old./Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn./At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.” from Binyon’s For The Fallen.
Parkhall Road, Antrim
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