This painted board is by members of the Youth First (web) group in the Bogside. In the image above, a young mother sporting both a nappy pin and an Easter lily tends to her infant child while casting a look back at Free Derry corner, the silhouettes of marchers, and washing on a line.
Meenan Square, Derry
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M10474
“Unite [web] in our communities, unite for jobs – unemployment and cuts destroy communities!!!”
Northumberland Street, west Belfast
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M10469
These three pairs of UK shields (Ulster Banner, St Andrew’s Saltire, Union Flag) are in Lindsay Street, south Belfast. There was also a fourth one, with the shield of the 36th Division. The were mounted in the four spaces (and in two cases, on the backing boards) used for a set of older boards, and the old title strip is still visible in the first two images: “Relief Of Londonderry” can be seen in the first image, while “Williamite cavalry charge, Aughrim” is visible in the second.
(The other two were “Jacobites fleeing at Enniskillen” and “Battle Of The Boyne”. For the four previous pieces, from left to right, see D00353, D00355, D00354, and D00356.)
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“Donegall Pass UVF 1913-2013” Visible from the Ormeau Road, this large union flag greets visitors to Donegall Pass in the south of the city. It asserts the presence of the UVF and connects the original Ulster Volunteers of 1913 to the present-day Ulster Volunteer Force one hundred years later: the aim of the original Ulster Volunteers was to resist the impending rule by Catholics under Home Rule.
Charlotte Street, Belfast.
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M10434 [M10435]
This small board is not far from the upper entrance to Old Warren in Lisburn. There’s no trace on-line of a ‘Moira Road Young Loyalists’. So, it might have been painted by an individual or family along the road. Neither the old UDA A Coy or B Coy boards mention a youth division.
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M10374
“Time changes! But the sacrifice remains the same.” Pictured is a board in Ogilvie Street in east Belfast, sponsored by the EU and the Cosy Somme Association, showing, in black and white, a WWI soldier, who is comforting another solider, in modern gear and in colour. The emblems of the 36th (Ulster) division and Royal Irish Rifles are also shown.
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M10284
This is the Relief Of Derry bonfire in the Fountain, Londonderry, for 2013. There was also a bonfire for 11th night.
The local flute band – William King Memorial (see Fountain Dead) – celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
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“We dont want the past”. A chronicle of the Troubles in Ardoyne: Orange marches, IRA shows of strength, rioting, plastic bullets, the blanket protest, funerals, vigilantism, Holy Cross. For the mural when new, see J1908.
For close-ups, see the post at Extramural Activity.
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M10235
Here is a gallery of minor pieces from Ardoyne:
“Join RSF [Republican Sinn Féin] – Éire Nua” in Estoril Park
“Free Marian Price” in Flax Street
“Repatriate Michael Campbell – bring him home” in Ardoyne Avenue (BBC)
“No sectarian parade 100%” in Jamaica Road (WP)
“Ha ha Thatcher – IRA” in Havana Court
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M10229 M10231 M10232 M10233 M10234
This eochaır/key replaces a plough-in-the-stars on the OIRA ex-prisoners support centre on the Falls Road at Clondara Terrace, seen in Official Republican Movement. The centre perhaps takes its name from the newspaper from the 1970s that was composed of articles written by prisoners and smuggled out of Long Kesh. Here is issue #3, from September, 1973.
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M10227
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