“George Dubya Bush – war criminal”. The WP page on Iraq war casualties cites a variety of sources putting the number of total deaths between 100,000 and 1.2 million. This Northumberland Street mural is from the IRSP.
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M04468
More precisely, UFF/UDA Taughmonagh. Finnis Drive, in south Belfast.
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M04432
Wolfe Tone replaces “Sinn Fein [sic] Out” graffiti below the sign for the Republican Museum on the “International Wall”,
Divis Street, Belfast
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The WBTA mural (on the International Wall (Visual History) is quickly repainted, with the central mural of the Easter Rising replaced with a gable-end version of a small (1981) mural in Rockdale St (long gone by 2008; in fact, none of the three murals depicted is extant in 2008 and none existed in the form shown).
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M04459
Images depicting a pair of WWI memorials – Thiepval Tower and Ulster Tower – are added to the Somme mural below the Cathedral Youth Club.
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M04411
2008 image of 2002’s Easter Rising mural in Berwick Road, Belfast.
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The Sean McCaughey board, previously seen in 2006 (though dating to 2005), is showing its age.
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M04324
Kickhams is the local Cumann Luthchleas Gael (GAA club) (Fb | tw), founded 1907, named for republican writer Charles Kickham. The mural shows football, hurling, and handball. At the bottom there are three generations of toddler hurlers, from barefoot and cloth-cap to boots and braces to baseball cap and tracksuit.
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M04317
The Woodvale Defence Association merged with other ‘defence association’ to form the UDA in 1971. In the drawing above, “UDA” (which appears at the bottom anyway) has been scored out and replaced with “UDU”, which refers to the UDU of 1893, and which is being used by (some) anti-Agreement members of the (pre-Agreement) UDA as a new name for the organisation (beginning in 2007: Newsletter | Remembrance Day Statement at CAIN). Cf. UDU-WDA-UDA-UFF | Daffodil Days.
With “No surrender” and “Kill all taigs”.
Disraeli Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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M04300
“In loving memory of Brian (Herbie) McCallum. We will remember him. The officers and members of Sweeneys ‘A’ company, 1st Belfast battalion, Ulster Volunteer Force.” Brian “Herbie” McCallum was a 29 year-old attending a contentious loyalist parade to Whiterock Orange Hall, being re-routed by the RUC, when the grenade he was carrying exploded prematurely, killing him instantly. The mural and memorial shown above is at the top of Ainsworth Avenue, close to the spot of the incident. He died in hospital three days later (CAIN | Border & Border Politics | Irish News article at Nuzhound | Independent).
Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast
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