Small Union Flag and Ulster Banner crests in the Fountain, Londonderry
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The Fountain
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Our Wee Country
The Union flag, Ulster Banner, YCV, and NI football flags flying on lamp-posts in Rossdowney Road, Londonderry
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British Ulster Alliance
The British Ulster Alliance is a flute band with a ‘British nationalist’ ideology that occasionally travelled to Northern Ireland to attend marches, such as one in the White City (north of Belfast) in 2006 (Mirror). There was a Rathcoole mural to the band in 2001 (see J0823).
The Union Flag is a composite of the St George’s Cross (England), St Andrew’s Saltire (Scotland), and the Order of St Patrick/St Patrick’s Saltire (Ireland). No Welsh flag is included in the Union Flag. The Northern Irish flag (Ulster Banner) is based on the flag of Ulster.
Fountain Street, Londonderry
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The Fountain
Three overviews of the Fountain in Londonderry. First from outside, beyond the Bishop Street “peace” line (for an earlier look, see 2002; for a close-up of a plaque, see X02718), and second and third from inside, from Kennedy Place and Wapping Lane.
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Newbuildings
These three images are of the flags and kerbstones on Victoria Road in Newbuildings at the junction with Duncastle Road.
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Causeway Protestant Boys
Three images from Main Street, Bushmills, led by “thank you” stickers from the [Giant’s] Causeway Protestant Boys.
Bushmills
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Hunger Strike 25th
Although the centre says “1981 – 2006” Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are included alongside the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers.
An identical board was hung in Garron Road, Glenariff [M02834].
Ramoan Road, Ballycastle.
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Bushmills
Here are four images of the streets of Bushmills, decked out with various loyalist flags. The first two are of the main square, then Huey Crescent and Straid Road.
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Staılc Ocraıs
IRA volunteer Michael Gaughan died in Parkhurst prison in 1974 after 64 days on hunger strike (staılc ocraıs). He was force-fed seventeen times during the strike and his family alleged that he died from food stuck in a punctured lung. The practice was ended after Gaughan’s death.
Frank Stagg was on the Parkhurst hunger strike with Gaughan, and another in Long Lartin prison, and a third in Wakefield in December 1975. He died after 62 days on February 12th, 1976.
Gaughan’s coffin was draped with the Tricolour used to bury Terence McSwiney in 1920, whose famous quote is at the top of the board: “It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will achieve ultimate victory.”
Falls Road, west Belfast
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REM 80/81
Three green “H”s on the Falls Road, Belfast (at the top of Donegall Road) encouraging remembrance of the two hunger strikes, in 1980 and 1981.
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