“In loving memory Sgt Hill McFarlane, murdered 21/4/1987. Always remembered by his family, friends and comrades. Quis separabit.” McFarlane was beaten to death by fellow UDA members (Lost Lives 2828).
Leroy Street, Ligoniel, north Belfast
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The Alliance Avenue “peace” line from the (loyalist) Glenbryn side, looking towards Ardoyne.
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2009 image of the (second – see C05209) Great Hunger mural on Ardoyne Avenue (see previously the mural in 2002) with the correct spelling of “emigration” restored (see 2004).
“They buried us without shroud or coffin” is a line from an unrelated Seamus Heaney poem Requiem For The Croppies. Produced by “Ardoyne Art & Environment Project”.
The plaque on the left is to Larry Marley.
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“Seán Mac Dıarmada 1883-1916 a bhí ına chónaí ı Sráıd de Buıtléır sa bhlıaın 1905.” [who was living in Butler Street in the year 1905].
Seán Mac Dıarmada was born in Leitrim, left for Glasgow at age 15, but after two years returned to Belfast in 1905 (working on the trams) and – according to the new mural above – spoke from the back of a coal lorry in Clonard Street, outside the Clonard branch of the Ancient Order Of Hibernians. Mac Dıarmada was for a short time an AOH member, before moving on to the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers, which led to his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising and execution on May 12th of that year.
Havana Way, north Belfast
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“KAT” [kill all Taigs], “Rab” (wee Rab?), “UVF” [Ulster Volunteer Force] on Woodvale Road, Belfast.
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From left to right: “UYM Milltown”, “Milltown UDA – Quis Separabit”, “Loyalist Milltown” on a yellow-starred flag akin to the Ulster Nationalist flag, “UFF South Belfast”.
Milltown Avenue, Dunmurry/Lisburn
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“UFF” graffiti on a lamp-pole on McKinstry Road.
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CIRA [Continuity IRA] on a bollard at the junction of Stewartstown and Lagmore Roads.
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The damaged Final Salute mural in Twinbrook is replaced by a memorial to IRA volunteers Gerard Fennell (killed by a British Army sniper in 1974), John Rooney (a week after Fennell), Bobby Sands, and Frankie Ryan (killed by a premature bomb explosion in St Albans). “Always remembered by the people of the Colin area.”
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“RIRA 2 – PSNI 0” [perhaps a reference to attacks on two officers in November, 2007], is over-written with “CIRA Scum” and “Join your local ONH [Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann, a RIRA offshoot] unit”. Iris Link, Twinbrook.
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