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Remember The Hunger Strike

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For the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, images from the period are reproduced in a mural sponsored by the “Ardoyne, Bone, Ligoniel 80/81 Commemoration Committee”: the funeral volley over Bobby Sands’s coffin, Derry women protesting conditions in Long Kesh by wearing blankets, women banging bin lids (see United Irishwomen) and protestors outside a polling station.

The frame is from the previous Érıu mural.

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Fearless

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The crest in the top left is of the “Cavehill Young Loyalists” who wrote on their website “The Cavehill Young Loyalists was formed on June 1999 in Westland, North Belfast by a group of young Protestants not willing to tolerate any more violence from the Irish Republican Movement, so they took up arms. Innocent Catholic families should have no fear of us as we attack legitimate Republican targets, but make no mistake we are in readiness, and fearless.” (archive.org). “Westland UFF 3rd batt K coy.”

Westland Road, north Belfast

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36th (Ulster) Division 1916

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This is a Monkstown WWI mural in four quadrants, showing the emblem of the 36th (Ulster) Division, a soldier at the cross in the Thiepval Cemetery, soldiers feeding a belt of ammunition into a Vicker’s machine gun, and others loading a Stokes mortar.

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UVF Liverpool No 4 Battalion

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A paramilitary mural in Monkstown (see J1042) is replaced by one of the statue to Sir Edward Carson at the entrance to Stormont. The names from the previous mural (John Webber/Webster and Lee Irwin) are retained and Steven Cook’s added, though this name was not on the original version of this mural (X05396).

Here is a memorial video to John Webster/Webber who died in 2000. Lee Irwin, who died from cancer at age 16, was the son of Liverpool UVF leader John Irwin (BelTel). Steven Cook is unknown except for a Young Carson’s Volunteers memorial parade in 2014.

The plaque reads “In memory of volunteers John Webster, Lee Irwin & Steven Cook. Lest we forget.” Tynan Drive, Monkstown. In 2014 the bronze plaque on the fence was replaced with a black one:

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Golden Jubilee

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Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor acceded to the throne of the United Kingdom in 1952 (she was crowned in 1953). 2002 was her golden jubilee year. See also Long To Reign Over Us and HM Queen Elizabeth II (which also has UDA sponsorship) and Long May She Reign.

Cashel Drive, Monkstown

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