“South Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force 2nd battalion, A company, Donegall Pass.” The flag of England (St. George’s Cross) is in one corner and in the other is an orange star with “1912” written below, the year the Ulster Volunteers were founded. The colour-scheme is the reverse of the Orange Order’s: its flag has the purple star of the Williamites on an orange field.
Seen previously in 2005.
Pine Street, south Belfast.
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M07555
“Londonderry west bank loyalists still under siege – No surrender”. The original siege of Derry began in 1688 and ended in July 1689.
Repainted version of signage seen previously in 2009.
The Fountain, Londonderry
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M11305
“End internment – end forced strip searching [in] HMP Maghaberry”. For background, see The Detail | BBC | Socialist Worker.
IRPWA (web) board on Eastway, Derry.
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M11304
“Welcome to Creggan – watch your back on the way out” and “Welcome to the Bogside – RUC beware”. The (anti-Agreement/perhaps “New”) IRA volunteers are shown wearing balaclavas and holding an RPG and an assault rifle.
Eastway and Westland Street, Derry
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This is an interesting set of images from Main Road, Moygashel.
The first three employ familiar imagery of the UVF and the 36th Division (the Home-Rule era “Deserted! Well – I Can Stand Alone” is less familiar but goes back to at least 1988; the UVF flag also references the anti-Home Rule movement in the “1912” date of the founding of the Ulster Volunteers).
The stencil (“It is not racist to protect your own community”) and hand-painted board (“Don’t be DUPed”) indicate a recent change in attitudes.
In the May elections for the European Parliament, UKIP received the most votes and the most seats (24), campaigning on an anti-immigrant and Euro-skeptical message; this is its best electoral performance to date (WP). Perhaps in response to UKIP’s increasing popularity, Conservative leader David Cameron last year (2013) promised (gov.uk) a referendum on EU membership, should the Conservatives be elected in next year’s (2015) general election.
The source of dissatisfaction with the DUP is less clear. The party won the largest number of seats in the local elections in May (WP).
These are perhaps the first appearance in the Peter Moloney Collection of both sentiments.
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M11244
This is the freshly-repainted UFF mural in Ballyduff (former version in purple). As the close-up shows, the figures are quite crudely drawn, with strange lips, elongated fingers, and amorphous limbs.
Fairview Road, Newtownabbey
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This UVF mural shows the flags and insignia of the UVF and YCV (Young Citizen Volunteers), Ballyduff/Glengormley 1st East Antrim Battalion, alongside the flags of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The plaque shows only a verse from Binyon’s For The Fallen.
Bonus images of the bonfire and the flags flying around the green.
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This is an end-of-life shot of the Ballyduff UDA board on Fairview Road – for the same piece in 2009 see M05010. Together with the recently repainted South East Antrim UFF, it sits prominently on the main road through the estate.
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M11192
“In memory of our fallen comrades of the INLA. Paul McCann, Matt McLarnon, Danny Loughran, Gino Gallagher.” Divis flats, St. Peters, and the plough in the stars, form the background. Information about the deaths of each of the four can be found via this IRSP page.
“This mural was erected by Teach Na Fáılte, Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners Support Group. 2014. ‘I owe my allegiance to the working class.’ Seamus Costello 1939-1977”
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The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted in 2012 of the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll (BBC) and sentenced to 18- and 25-year minimums, respectively. The case is under review (Guardian) and a campaign for their release is under way (Fb | Twitter).
The stencilled mural above shows two pairs of arms in chains, surrounded by a border of chains; it replaces the right-hand side of Think Independently.
Hugo Street, west Belfast. The initialism was also seen on Slıabh Dubh last (2013) October.
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M11140
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