Zombie-skeleton Eddie The Trooper rides a black steed in Londonderry’s Fountain area. There’s no explicit reference to loyalist paramilitarism here, though he will readily be understood to be hunting Catholics rather than charging Russians at Balaclava. For background, including the connection to Iron Maiden, see the Visual History page on Eddie.
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The upper flag on the right-hand side of this mural – purple saltire on a blue background with star and red hand – is the proposed flag of Ulster nationalists. The position was espoused by the UDA of the 1970s, under the guise of the political parties the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party (WP) and the Ulster Democratic Party (WP), and for a time by the Red Hand Commandos under the Ulster Loyalist Central Coordinating Committee (WP).
This is a repaint; for the previous (identical) version, see UFF Carrickfergus.
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These two plaques have been mounted on the curved brick wall at the junction of Woodburn Road and Woodburn Avenue, Carrickfergus.
“To honour the men and women who served in the ranks of the Ulster Defence Regiment CGC [Conspicuous Gallantry Cross]. We will remember them.”
“In memory of those who gave their lives in the service of our country and are still doing so.”
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“Progression requires inclusion” of UVF paramilitary gangs.
The painting of King Billy is by John Darren Sutton and was produced on a grand scale in Tavanagh Street, Village, south Belfast – see Hang Out Our Banners.
“It’s dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” “Loyal Carrickfergus – then, now and always!”
Davy’s Street, Carrickfergus
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The gable wall at the end of Columbia Street (on Ohio Street) has been rebuilt and the old WDA/Duke Elliott mural has been replaced. The right side of the piece describes the transition from the Woodvale Defence Association to the Ulster Defence Association to the Ulster Freedom Fighters, and grounds all three in the Ulster Defence union of 1893. Ernie “Duke” Elliott was killed in 1972, at age 28, in a dispute with other UDA members; he lived one street over from the site of these new boards, in Leopold Street (WP).
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This vintage UFF fist is on Sydney Street West at Ghent Place, in the Mill area of the Shankill.
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Here is a gallery of images from Westwinds estate in Newtownards, featuring (East Belfast) UVF murals and memorial gardens.
The newest one shows Carson signing the 1912 Covenant beneath a UVF emblem reading “Armed and ready”.
The one with some damage reads, “Our only crime was to serve you, the community and protect ‘our country’. Now times have changed. As a force, our belief is not only ‘for God and Ulster’ but to you, the community, ‘help us to help you’.”
The central stone in the memorial garden is dedicated to “all our fallen comrades both in the Battle Of The Somme and fight against republicanism”.
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Here is a gallery of (post-Agreement) republican graffiti in the Brandywell, including “$inn £einn”, “Remember the 14” victims of Bloody Sunday, and a quote from Patrick Pearse: “Beware of the thing that is coming”, from the poem ‘The Rebel’, which ends “And I say to my people’s masters: Beware,/Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,/Who shall take what ye would not give.”
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This installation of information and photographs relating to Operation Motorman and the killing of Seamus Bradley is next to the memorial to Bradley on the path running through Bishop’s Field (which contains complete information about his death).
There was also a small installation of photographs and documents relating to Bradley’s killing below the Operation Motorman mural on Rossville Street.
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The lettering on the memorial to IRA volunteer Sean Keenan/Ó Cıanáın has been re-painted. See previously: Sean Keenan.
Fahan Street, Derry.
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