UVF board on the back of the shops in the (loyalist) Irish Street area of Londonderry.
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Londonderry UVF
painted board
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”).
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Attack Of The Ulster Division
Soldiers from the 36th Division go over the top at the Somme, as depicted in JP Beadle’s Attack Of The Ulster Division (belfastsomme.com).
Strule Gardens, Londonderry
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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
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The People’s Army
The title of the post comes from the previous location of this Ulster Volunteers/UVF board. The image above is from Seymour Gardens, Londonderry, but previously the board was on the main road (Sperrin Park) in the Caw with a black background and title-board above, and side-fence of insignia. From the period of the Ulster Volunteers, the board features the Carson, the Clyde Valley, the Covenant, and the UDU (Ulster Defence Union) manifesto of 1893.
Previously in this location: McFadzean.
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Free John Brady Now
“Free John Brady Now – End internment – W???/32CSM” on Chapel Road exiting east from Dungiven. John Brady was released under the Agreement but was returned to prison in 2003 on weapons charges. He died in prison in 2009 (RN); an inquest will begin in November 2018 (Irish News).
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Ballee Blues And Royals Flute Band
“Ballee Blues And Royals Flute Band, est. 1987” with a list of the Apprentice Boys (on the left) and (on the right) seven streets in the area (Drumtara, Lettercreeve, Kincora, Shanowen, Shancoole, Shanlieve, Lanntara) and the six counties of Northern Ireland. The emblem in the centre is the arm badge of the Blues & Royals (the British Army regiment), featuring the (French) Waterloo Eagle – here carrying a flute. The band does not appear to have persisted past 2012 has since changed its name – see comment below.
Drumtara, Ballymena
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36th (Ulster) Division
WWI soldiers from the Ulster Volunteer Force-turned-36th (Ulster) Division go over the top in WWI.
Drumtara, Ballymena
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Northern Ireland Crest
This board in Larne Road, Ballymena lacks paramilitary designation, but is presumably associated with the UDA, as the floating Northern Ireland is a symbol of the UDA’s “Ulster nationalism”.
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South East Antrim Ulster Scots
Saint Andrew’s Saltire (on the left) is paired with a provincial Ulster flag (rather than an Ulster Banner), exceedingly rare in a PUL mural.
Larne Street, Harryville, Ballymena
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