
The “old model” RUC is a combination of policeman, Orangeman, and (loyalist) paramilitary, affiliations the “new model” lacks.
Divis Street, Belfast
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Forced Upon Us is a play about the history of the RUC, paralleling the foundation of the state in 1922 to the situation in the 1990s. It was put on at Theatre On The Rock (St Thomas’s school on the Whiterock Road) by DubbelJoint and JustUs, written by Brenda Murphy and Christine Poland, and directed by Pam Brighton (IrishPlayography).
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The Sinn Féin offices in Turf Lodge are named “Constance Markievicz House” after the artist, suffragette, republican revolutionary, first woman elected to the British parliament, anti-Treaty fighter, and hunger striker.
Monagh Crescent, Belfast
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Day 371 of the “siege” of the residents of Garvaghy Road, Portadown. The siege began when the newly-formed Parades Commission decided to ban the Orange march in 1998 and 2,000 police and soldiers enforced the ruling by barricading the road off. Rossville Street, Derry, with Free Derry Corner and The Petrol Bomber in the background.
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Here is a trio of loyalist boards in Dennet Gardens, Londonderry with the insignia of the Young Citizen Volunteers, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Commandos. The design of a garland of flowers containing a regimental insignia dates to the Ulster Volunteers of 1912; the masked volunteers standing to attention do not.
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