“An Gorta Mór 1845-1848. In memory of the 500 inhabitants of Rathlin island who emigrated to America and England during The Great Famine.” Church Quarter, Rathlin.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03569 [M03570]
An Gorta Mór
physical force
Loyal Glebeside
These three images are from a single corner on Alexandra Avenue in Ballymoney’s Glebeside estate.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03566 M03567 M03565
Invicta
“Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” – the words of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata used in an “undefeated” UDA/UFF board in Carnany Park, with hooded gunmen standing on an independent Northern Ireland-shaped Ulster Banner.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03564
Ballymoney 3rd Battalion
UDA/UFF 3rd battalion (North Antrim brigade).
Carnany Drive, Ballymoney
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03563
UDA 3rd Battalion
“For as long as one hundred of us remain alive, we shall never in any way consent to submit to the rule of the Irish. For it is not for glory we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life.” This is a modified version of the (English translation of the) Declaration of Arbroath, declaring Scotland’s independence from England. UDA North Antrim-Londonderry brigade.
Carnany Gardens, Ballymoney
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03562
REM 1690
Scenes from the junction of the Tullgrawley, Shellinghill, Ballywatermoy, and Cladytown roads north of Ballymena and Cullybackey.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03558 M03557 M03559
In Glorious Memory
“In glorious memory” of King William III of Orange, crossing the Boyne to defeat King James II and secure Ireland for England.
North Street, Ballymena
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
[M03554] [M03555] M03556
Londonderry UVF
UVF board on the back of the shops in the (loyalist) Irish Street area of Londonderry.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03843
No Surrender
Flags outside a house in Bann Drive, Londonderry, celebrating “The Brave Thirteen” apprentice boys who began the siege of Derry, the ship Mountjoy that ended the siege, and the city of Londonderry (“Vita, veritas, victoria”).
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
M03841 M03842
Eamonn Lafferty
19 year-old Provisional IRA volunteer Eamonn Lafferty was “killed on active service 18th August 1971”, in a gun-battle with British Army forces who were attempting to dismantle barricades in republican “Free Derry”.
Kildrum Gardens, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Peter Moloney
[M03591] [M03592] [M03593] [M03594] M03595 M03596
Peter Moloney Collection 