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UDA Headquarters

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Two images from the side wall of UDA headquarters in Gawn Street, Belfast. The first has a shield divided into four with UDA-associated groups in each (UFF, UDA, LPA, UDF); the second has the traditional UDA emblem, with Ulster and Scotland shaking hands above. Both are flanked with Union Flag and Ulster Banner.

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Loch gCál

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Here is an image of the completed Loch gCál/Loughgall mural (see also the in-progress image from 1987) in memory of the eight IRA volunteers from the East Tyrone brigade who were killed in an SAS ambush during an attack on an RUC base in May, 1987 (WP).

Their names are given here in Irish and (partially) in the old script:

“I ndıl cuimh[n]e de [= ar]
Óglach Pádraıg Ó Ceallaıġ [Patrick Kelly],
Óglach Séamus Ó Donn[ġ]aıle [Seamus Donnelly],
Óglach Deaglán Mac Aırt [Declan Arthurs],
Óglach Séamus Laıghneach [Jim Lynagh],
Óglach Gearóıd Ó Ceallacháın [Gerry O’Callaghan],
Óglach Pádraıg Mac Cearnaıgh [Pádraıg McKearney],
Óglach Antóın Ó Garmaıle [Ó Gormghaıle | Tony Gormley],
Óglach Eoghan Ó Ceallaıġ [Eugene Kelly]

an ochtar óglach de óglaigh na hÉireann a dúnmharú ag Loch gCál ar an ochtú lá Bealtaine 1987.”
[the eight volunteers from the Irish Volunteers [IRA] who were murdered at Loughgall on the eighth day of May, 1987]

The town (Loughgall) and the four provinces are also named in Irish. An Easter lily is at the centre of the Celtic cross in the middle of the image, above a lark in barbed wire and a gal gréıne/sunburst.

Painted by Mo Chara. The bright colours and sweeping clouds/skyline are inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick. 

Springhill Avenue, west Belfast.

There is a list of the eight names, also in Irish, in the New Lodge, north Belfast.

Click here for Nuada And Loughgall together.

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Nuada & Loughgall

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Here is an image of the Nuada and Loughgall/Loch gCál murals together at the top of Springhill Avenue in west Belfast, painted by Mo Chara and inspired by the work of Jim Fitzpatrick. 

For in-progress images see Loch gCál and Is É Seo Nuadha, Rí Tuatha Dé Danann. Also seen a year later, in 1989.

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The Felons

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From inside the Felons Club in Andersonstown, Belfast: a version of Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic above the famous quote from Pearse’s O’Donovan Rossa oration – “The fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace” — along with portraits of hunger strikers.

For a history of the club in its previous locations, see this Danny Morrison remembrance.

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