UVF and YCV flags flying over a painted Union flag with “South Belfast Regiment II” in the centre. Eight thousand men signed up for the Ulster Volunteers from south Belfast. Charlotte Street.
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A hooded gunman welcomes you to “loyalist Sandy Row, heartland of South Belfast Ulster Freedom Fighters. Quis separabit.” The wording is perhaps an imitation of Free Derry Corner.
Linfield Road, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Somewhat faded version of a mural (seen before in 1995) to 12 UDA ‘A’ battalion volunteers, headed by Brigadier John McMichael. Compared to the 1995 version, Harry Black and Raymie Elder have been added. (Samuel Curry will be added when the mural is repainted).
Rowland Way, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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2001 image of the Sandy Row UDA funeral volley mural previously seen in 1997. The same “fuck Rangers” graffitist who sprayed the Sandy Row UFF ‘wings’ mural also got to this mural. “In proud memory of our fallen comrades. We forget them not – at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Boyne Court, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Sandy Row mural with large wings behind UFF and UDA flags and insignia, with hooded gunmen on either side and “Fuck Rangers” graffiti.
Albion Street, south Belfast
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Paint-bombed mural to members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Belfast Brigade, in the 36th (Ulster) Division, with (anachronistic) Ulster Banner and Union Flag: “they arose in the dark days to defend our native land for God and Ulster”, “And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, though shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them – Deuteronomy 7 verse 2”.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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A red hand of the Sandy Row UDA clasps the barrel of a rifle. With “RIRA” graffiti in the bottom left.
Blythe Street, south Belfast
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An advertising hoarding on Cromac Street is painted over with a Tricolour for the 2001 (local) election. Alex Maskey stood successfully in the Laganbank ward (WP).
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2001 image of the masked volunteers previously seen in 1997 in Lower Stanfield Street. It is extremely unusual for a (republican) “hooded gunman” mural to survive to this date. We conjectured in the earlier post that the creation of the mural dates to the period between the ceasefires.
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IRA 3rd battation volunteers Joseph Downey, Brendan Davison, and Tony Nolan are commemorated with a mural of a firing party and the crests of the four provinces.
Lower Stanfield Street, south Belfast
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