


Londonderry UVF 1st battalion C company memorial mural in Sperrin Park in the Caw, with UVF and YCV boards on the fence in front, and RHC letters off to the side.
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These plaques and headstones are from St Colman’s cemetery in Lurgan (on N. Circular Road). The most notable and the first and last: Thomas Harte and Paddy McGrath (a 1916 Rising participant) who were executed by De Valera in 1940 for the deaths of two (Irish) Special Branch officers who were among a party that stormed their house, though it was never established whose bullets had killed the pair (more at Treason Felony).
The car in which McKerr, Toman, and Burns were travelling was shot 109 times by a specially trained RUC squad (Headquarters Mobile Support Unit – HMSU), under the control of (UK) special branch in an apparent shoot-to-kill operation.
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“In memory of Ben Redfern, Lindsay Mooney, Cecil McKnight, Gary Lynch, Ray Smallwoods, William Campbell. Lest we forget.” For Redfern and Lynch, see It’s Still Only Thursday; Smallwoods has a WP page; Campbell died in 2002 in a premature pipe-bomb explosion (Guardian).
Lincoln Court, Londonderry
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“While Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.” From Pearse’s 1915 oration at the graveside of O’Donovan Rossa.
Levin Road, Lurgan
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