“USA: Hands off Cuba. Stop plan Bush. Support Cuba’s right to continued independence. No to imperialism, No US military aggression. End the US economic blockade of Cuba. End the US occupation of Guantanamo Bay. Stop the crazy son of a Bush.”
Divis Street, Belfast
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The UVF’s Red Hand Commando are inspired by the British Army’s SAS and uses a similar image for its emblem: instead of wings on a sword, RHC uses wings on a red hand. [East Belfast] C company mural in Ballybeen. ‘Lamh dearg abu’ = ‘red hand to victory’.
Upper Newtownards Road
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The upper image in the main mural is of workers leaving Harland & Wolff shipyard in 1911. In the lower image, they are shot in the trenches and suffer a gas attack in WWI.
Upper Newtownards Road, Ballybeen, Dundonald
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“My players are national heroes and have achieve immortality in Northern Ireland folklore …” – Lawrie Sanchez, NI manager. Sanchez was manager from January 2004 to April 2007, when he left to take over Fulham. Under his direction, the team scored notable victories over Spain in a Euro 2008 qualifier and a one-nil victory over England in a World Cup qualifier at Windsor Park. The goals from these games are included in this youtube video of the song We’re Not Brazil; We’re Northern Ireland.
With sponsorship from the East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society.
Montrose Street South, Belfast
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Lord Street mural the ERII’s golden (50th) jubilee in 2002. The building on the left is unknown (please get in touch if you can identify it); the previous Ledley Hall school (now Ledley Hall youth club) is on the right.
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The “UVF” on the storage units would be painted over, leaving only the memorial to the 36th (Ulster) Division. The Ballybeen RHC memorial mural on the side would remain until the building was redeveloped and both murals were replaced by a memorial garden.
Craignish Crescent, Davarr Avenue.
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“Ballybeen Youth C. Company” Red Hand Commando, with the names of the six counties and the slogan “Lamh Dearg Abu” (a corruption of “Lámh Dhearg Abú”, “red hand to victory”). Next to another mural mentioning RHC Youth in Morven Park.
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“Where so ever, how so ever or whenever we are called upon to make our exit, we shall do so as proud men.” (Another UVF mural in east Belfast has “as free men”.) A hooded gunman from the Red Hand Commando stands at the ready. The first of the four crests is the (rare, possibly restricted to the Morven Park murals) “RHC Youth”; then PAF, UVF, and YCV.
Morven Park, Ballybeen
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Union jack, with bleeding red hand above it, on Rank Road the Inchmarnock Drive side of Durness Walk, Ballybeen.
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The UDA emblem sits on top of a Northern Ireland separated from the Republic. Quis separabit!
Drumadoon Drive, Ballybeen
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