Tourist information board on the walls at Bishop’s Gate, outside which James II waited in the rain for the surrender of the city in 1689.
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Bishop’s Gate
physical force
Church Bastion
Tourist information board on the walls of Derry city, at the Church Bastion/St Columb’s.
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Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall
These images are from the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall in Society Street, Londonderry. When not on display in the street during celebrations of the Siege, Lundy’s effigy is stored in a narrow room in the hall. Brother [Samuel] David Montgomery was a part-time members of the UDR; he was shot by the IRA in the timber yard where he worked on February 10th, 1981.
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Sniper At Work/No RUC
Two “nail-ups” on an electricity pole in Westland Street, Derry.
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Years From Now They Will Ask You
“Years from now they will ask you where you were when your comrades were dying on hungerstrike. Shall you say you were with us or shall you say that you were conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths[?]” INLA (sign the light-pole as well as the flags and red star in the mural) volunteer Patsy O’Hara, from Derry, joined the hunger strike on the same day as Raymond McCreesh (March 22nd) and died, 61 days later, later in the same day (May 21st, 11:29 p.m.) as him (2:11 a.m.).
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SF Sell Outs
Three pieces of republican graffiti along the wall along Lecky Road leading to the overpass: “Real IRA”, “PSNI/RUC scum out now”, “BRY” [Bogside Republican Youth], “RSF” [Republican Sınn Féın], “Up the RSF”, “SF sell outs”.
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United Irishmen
This “blue plaque” from the Ulster History Circle is on the wall of Kelly’s Cellars (established 1720) in Bank Street: “Society of United Irishmen met here 1791-1798.” Henry Joy McCracken was hanged in the nearby Corn Market.
For image from inside, see this 2008 entry.
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Kill All Taigs
Graffiti in the Westland Road estate, off Cavehill Road, and from Ballysillan Road: “CYL [Cavehill Young Loyalists] – kill all taigs”. For the CYL, see previously Fearless. And, second, “KAT”, “UVF” on the shutters of Fryer Chuck’s, on the Ballysillan Road.
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D Company Ballysillan
The memorial in the middle has now (compared to the original mural) been labelled (on a plinth) “In memory of 36th (Ulster) Division” but the names on the stone remain those of UVF volunteers John Bingham and Thomas Stewart.
The plaques are to (left) Davey Phillips, Patrick McEvoy, (top middle) John Bingham, (right) Thomas Stewart, Chin Taylor. The plaque in the middle is to “the officers and volunteers of of D Company 1st Battalion Ulster Volunteer Force”.
Ballysillan Road, north Belfast
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Young Guns
Sixteen year-old Glen “Spacer” Branagh was killed by a premature blast bomb during a riot on Remembrance Sunday (Nov. 11), 2001. His portrait is on a board at the centre of UDA flags and guns (and the tiger of Tiger’s Bay). “Ulster Young Militants – Terrae filius.” The background was previously yellow.
“If the Provos and the pan nationalist front and the British and Irish governments keep trying to succeed in a united Ireland then they may prepare themselves for another 30 bloody years for the battle will have just begun.”
Edlingham Street, north Belfast
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