“Ruaırí Ó Brádaıgh, RIP. True republican. RSF. IRA.” Ó Brádaıgh was IRA chief of staff and president of (Provisional) Sınn Féın and then Republican Sınn Féın. He died on June 5th, 2013. (WP)
Lecky Road, Derry
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Raymond Gilmour was a member of (successively) the IRA, INLA, and again IRA who was an undercover agent for the RUC and became a supergrass in 1982. This stencil in London Road near the New Gate is perhaps caused by his complaint against the intelligence services (BBC).
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Line drawing in Derry by Carlos Latuff showing an army soldier, with “impunity” across his shoulders, taking aim at a blindfolded woman, representing martyrs’ families.
Latuff is a Brazilian political cartoonist (web site). This piece is outside the Free Museum of Derry. Just out of shot (to the right) is an actual bullet-hole from Bloody Sunday. He also added a drawing to Free Derry corner (M08306). On the same visit (July 2012), he worked in Belfast on a mural expressing solidarity between Palestinian and republican POWs and also did a line drawing on a café wall.
(See also: Latuff cartoon used in a flyer for a rally to End Imp unity.)
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This is a new William Campbell board in Ballycastle Road/Tullyarton Road, Harpur’s Hill, Coleraine, replacing the white one seen in 2007.
“A true Ulsterman who paid the supreme price for the love of his country. In memory of William Campbell who lost his life on active service 3rd January 2002. Quis separabit. 2nd Batt. Coleraine.”
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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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“Comber loyalists support Union Flag at city hall.” – that is, the permanent flying of the Union Flag at Belfast city hall. High Street.
Old UVF nail-up in De Wind Drive.
“Comber Orange and Protestant hall. Erected A.D. 1875” and “Comber Orange Hall 2010” in Railway Street.
“To the glory of God and in memory of those members of Ulster’s security forces from Comber and district who gave their lives in defence of their country. Fidelis atque fortis [faithful and also strong]. Erected in 1998.” With the names of one UDR soldier and four RUC policemen. Killinchy Street.
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“Interned by Britain, facilitated by Stormont.” Marian Price was released on May 39th, 2013 (BBC) but it took a while for some IRPWA (web) placards to come down. The first is in Lone Moor Road, Derry. The second – “Support the republican POWs on protest in Maghaberry” – is in Eastway, Derry and was later vandalised (see M09535). The third is in Brompton Park, Ardoyne, Belfast.
See previously: Free Marian Price (2011) and Free Marian Price Now (2012). The other portrait in the final image is Martin Corey – see e.g. 38 Days.
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“In proud and loving memory of Fiann [sic] Gerald Donaghey, murdered on Bloody Sunday, 30th January 1972. Beirigí bua.” Donaghey was killed by the same bullet that also killed Gerard McKinney. The plaque is at the (modern-day) spot where he died, on the outside of Glenfada Park (south).
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This is the new UDA board in Harryville, Ballymena, replacing the simple board of M05965 with an ornate frame around white six-pointed star surrounded by “SEAB [South East Antrim Brigade], UDA, 4th Batt, A Coy”
Larne Street, Ballymena
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Robert Dougan was commander of the UDA South Belfast Brigade and lived the Oranmore Drive (BelTel). He was killed by the IRA on February 10th, 1998 while sitting in a car outside Balmoral Textiles in Dunmurry, which led to a month-long expulsion of Sinn Féin from the talks (L.A. Times); two months later the Good Friday Agreement was signed. There had been attempts on his life in 1993 and 1994 (Irish Times).
Tildarg Avenue, Suffolk, west Belfast
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