Four pieces of RIRA graffiti (one a crude drawing) from Rossville Street, Derry, including “Provo sell out” and “Brits out now”.
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England’s Grip Must Be Broken
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No 5 Platoon
This UVF platoon 5, A company, 1st battalion, mural is just across Conway Street from the Noel and Tombo Kinner mural, which is also a platoon 5 mural. The plaque is “in memory of a true soldier, Big Bill Campbell”; for more info on Campbell, see Loyalist Prisoners & Widow’s Welfare (from when the plaque was moved up to the Shankill Road).
The verse on the left is from Siegfried Sassoon’s Suicide In The Trenches. “At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them” is from another WWI poem, Laurence Binyon’s For The Fallen.
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They Gave Their Tomorrow For Our Today
Information about the people named in this mural is patchy.
UVF volunteer Noel Kinner was imprisoned for the killing of Brendan McLaughlin in 1980 (politics.ie); he died of a heart attack on 4th November, 1996, two years after his release; there is a ballad describing his life (youtube).
Thomas “Tombo” Kinner was a YCV volunteer of the same unit: platoon 5, A company, 1st battalion.
Volunteer Noel Shaw is described by Sutton as dying in a UVF feud.
Most/All of the people mentioned were members of the Sons Of Ulster flute band (Fb).
“When you go home/Tell them of us/And say for your tomorrow/We gave our today.” is a WWII epitaph by John Maxwell Edmonds in Kohima Cemetery.
Conway Walk, Belfast
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Towards Justice
The Bloody Sunday campaign holds a commemorative march at the end of each January to mark the anniversary of Bloody Sunday on January 30th, 1972.
Lecky Road, Derry.
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What A Laugh
Commentary on earlier promises not to decommission: “”Not a bullet, not an ounce” – what a laugh.” Dove Gardens/Stanley’s Walk, Derry.
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A Revolutionary Party
“A revolutionary needs a revolutionary party. Join Ógra Shınn Féın.” A close paraphrase of Mao’s statement that “If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.”
Divis Street, Belfast
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Stop The Extradition Of Sean Garland
Sean Garland, long-time OIRA member and president of the Workers’ Party, was arrested in Belfast in October 2005 in connection with a USA extradition request on charges of trafficking in counterfeit dollars.
Grosvenor Road, Belfast
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Sandy Row UFF
The UFF mural in Albion Street, Belfast, seen in better health in 2005, is damaged by fire.
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The Young, The Brave, The Fearless
The Young Citizen Volunteers are the youth wing of the UVF which takes its name from the Ulster Volunteers of 1912 (see the license plate of the van). Seen previously in 2001.
Walnut Street, Donegall Pass, south Belfast
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Brigadier John McMichael
“Murdered by the enemies – 22nd December 1987. We forget him not.” The South Belfast UDA/UFF commander was killed by an IRA car bomb in 1987. In addition to organising a team of assassins in the 70s and 80s, he founded a Political Research Group and wrote two documents proposing an independent Northern Ireland.
Previously seen in 2005.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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