“Here is a final image from lower Ormeau about Orange Order flute band marches through the area in the summer of 1997.
Cooke Street, south Belfast
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Re-Route The Flute
painted wall
RUC Ninja
This mural was never finished, so it’s not entirely clear what it was meant to represent. It shows two and a half RUC officers in riot gear, leaping like ninjas, presumably over the wishes of lower Ormeau residents.
Essex St/Sraid Conchúr Mhic Neasa, Belfast.
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Release All POWs Now
Both male and female prisoners of war are represented in this mural: by the male and female faces — the male above the silhouette of Long Kesh, the female behind bars (presumably of Armagh prison) – and by the (formerly astrological) symbols for male (Mars) and female (Venus). “Saoırse” (“freedom”). The mural is signed (top left): “G[erard Mo Chara] Kelly 95 [© SF??]”.
Kinallen Court, Belfast
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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Approved Orange Route
The “approved Orange route” – approved by the “SS” RUC and the Parades Commission Chairman, is right over Catholics. The march was cancelled on July 11th after opposition to marches in many places, including the Drumcree march of July 6th. “June 20” (on the right of the mural) is the date Mo Mowlam (Beware!) is reported to have decided to force the Drumcree march down Garvaghy Road.
Dromara Street, south Belfast
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Sandy Row 2nd Batt
Three panels in a row with Ulster First Flute, UVF/PAF/YCV (seen in 1995), and UDA insignia. In the middle, on either side of the UVF’s “for God and Ulster”, masked volunteers carry Uzis.
Albion Street, Belfast, just off Sandy Row.
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In Proud Memory
Sandy Row South Belfast UDA/UFF funeral volley 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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Four Children
The faces of four children of different races are worked into a curve of celtic knotwork, feathers, and Tricolour.
“Corn Beef Tin”, Central Drive, Creggan, Derry
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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Bloody Sunday
The third mural by the Bogside Artists (after The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette) is “Bloody Sunday” (painted with Sean Loughrey), painted for the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It reproduces a Fulvio Grimaldi photograph of local priest Edward Daly waving a blood-stained handkerchief in advance of four men carrying the body of Jackie Duddy. The left-most figure has been changed into a British paratrooper, and he is trampling on a “civil rights” banner similar to one used to cover a body. In the background is an image from earlier in the day, of the civil rights march from Creggan to the Bogside.
Lecky Road/Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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Ulster First Flute
Ulster First Flute (Fb) mural in Linfield Gardens, Belfast. Blood drips from a red fist between solemn volunteers and the flags of Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Copyright © 1997 Peter Moloney
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Free Our Prisoners
“In memory of our freedom fighters who fought and died for Ulster. It was not for glory they fought nor honour or riches but freedom alone which no good man should lose but with his life.” A three-panel UFF mural in Linfield Road. A scroll with four emblems (UDA, UYM, UFF and Ulster banner); flags of the UDA and Scotland with manacled red fists and an outline of Northern Ireland superimposed with the Ulster banner, between emblems of the LPA and another prisoners’ organisation; a kneeling volunteer from A battalion, south Belfast’s Sandy Row.
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