“I ndíl [ndıl] chuımhne ar ár gcomrádaí. Fıan Jim Templeton murdered by pro-British death squads. 28ú Eanáir [January] 1960 – 29ú Lúnasa [August] 1975.” Jim Templeton, aged 15, was shot from a passing car while standing outside the Rose & Crown on the Ormeau Road, Belfast (CAIN/Sutton).
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M02529
“In memory of Jack Duffin, Willie McManus, Christy Doherty, Peter Magee, James Kennedy. Murdered for their faith on 5th February 1992. Also in memory of all other local people who have been murdered for their faith. Go ndeana Dıa trocaıre ar a nanamacha.” The five Catholics were killed and nine more injured in a UDA attack on Sean Graham’s bookmakers on the Ormeau Road, Belfast.
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M02528
“Aye ready. In loving memory of Thomas (Tom J.) Johnston, died 11 November 2002. Will always be remembered by his family and friends.” Thomas Johnston was died after being assaulted not far from his home on North Boundary Street, Belfast. (BBC-NI)
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M02470
“This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Lt. Col. Trevor King, died 9th July 1994, Major Wm. (Frenchie) Marchant, died 28th April 1987, Davy Hamilton, Died 17th June 1994. These brave men died near this spot [the corner of Spier’s Place and Shankill Road, Belfast] by the enemies of Ulster. No sacrifice is too great for one’s country. They paid the ultimate sacrifice. ‘They shall grow not old/as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn/At the going down of the sun and in the morning/We will remember them.'” King and Hamilton (along with Colin Craig, an RUC informer and not included on the plaque) were shot by the INLA and died of their wounds three weeks and one day later. Frenchie Marchant was shot by the IRA outside The Eagle chip shop. The plaque is surrounded by a garland of three nation’s flowers: shamrock, rose, and thistle.
For the previous version, see T00258.
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M02449 M02448
“30 years of indiscriminate slaughter by so-called non-sectarian Irish freedom fighters.” The five bombing depicted at those at the Four Step Inn, Balmoral Showrooms, Mountainvew Tavern, Bayardo Bar, Frizzell’s fish shop. “Where are our inquiries? Where is our truth? Where is our justice?”
Bellevue Street, west Belfast
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UVF volunteers Robert Wadsworth, Robert McIntyre, James McGregor, Thomas Chapman, William Hannah, who died in the 1970s, are commemorated with a plaque and a mural in Carnan Street, Belfast. The plaque includes lines from Binyon’s WWI poem For The Fallen: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn/At the going down of the sun and in the morning/We will remember them” with “in our hearts forever” added; the flowers of the four home nations also suggests WWI. The “Four Step” was a pub bombed in 1971 (see X02393).
For the previous version of the hooded gunmen, see T00242.
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Ernie “Duke” Elliott came from the Woodvale area and was a founder member of the Woodvale Defence Association in 1971, which was later folded into the UDA. He was also a Marxist. He was killed in a pub brawl in December 1972 in a dispute over weapons (WP | Tele | Watching The Door)
Ohio Street, west Belfast
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M02426
“Remembering six sons of the New Lodge: Jim Sloan, Jim McCann, Brendan Maguire, Tony ‘TC’ Campbell, John Loughran, Ambrose Hardy. Murdered by British state forces as part of the occupation of our country on the night of the 3rd and 4th February 1973”. Two of the Six (James Sloan, James McCann) were killed by the UDA outside a bar and four (Tony Campbell, Ambrose Hardy, Brendan Maguire, John Loughran) among the crowd that gathered by British Army snipers from their positions on top of the flats, using night-vision sights. Previously seen in 2002.
Donore Court, New Lodge, north Belfast
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M02410 M02411
INLA plaque in Friendly Street, Belfast. In proud memory of our fallen comrades: brothers James ‘Jim’ and Thomas ‘Ta’ Power – the former killed by a premature explosion in Friendly Street, site of this plaque, the latter killed alongside John O’Reilly in Dublin by the IPLO, and Emanuel Gargan, who was also killed in the feud. “When the freedom of our country and class has been won let us guard it well remembering it was paid for by the blood and lives of those now dead. Erected by the Irish Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners Memorial Committee.”
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M02390 [M02961]
“I ndılchuımhne ar óglaıgh chomplacht B an trıú cathlan brıogáıd Bhéal Feırste Óglaıgh na hÉıreann a fuaır bás ar son saoırse na hÉıreann and all others who died as a result of British occupation of our country.” Roll of honour for IRA volunteers (up to 1978) in and from east Belfast, beginning with Charlie Monaghan/Monahan who died in 1916 the day before the Rising and who would get a mural in 2006 (and another in the Markets in 2017), as would Sean Martin who died in 1940.
Beechfield Street, east Belfast
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