The emblem of the new Police Service of Northern Ireland, is mounted outside the station in Strand Road, Londonderry. In the middle is a St Patrick’s Saltire, around the six-pointed star (clockwise from the top) are a scales of justice, a harp, a torch (for enlightenment), an olive branch, a shamrock, and a crown.
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These four plaques are behind the Cathedral Youth Club in the Fountain, Londonderry in a small memorial garden. William King died of a heart attack during ‘Free Derry’ clashes; there is a flute band in his name. Logan, Montgomery, and Stott were RUC and UDR members killed by the IRA.
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The memorial plaque to Charles (Charlie) Love was originally mounted in 1991 and preserved when the flats at the junction of Fahan Street and Rossville Street, Derry, were re-done. (The Runner would later be painted around it by the Bogside Artists.) “In memory of Charles Love, accidentally killed on 28th January 1990. Unveiled by his father Patrick. Erected by the Bloody Sunday Initiative 27th January 1991. Padre Pio pray for him.” Love was 17 years old when he was hit by flying masonry from an IRA bomb while attending a Bloody Sunday memorial.
Fahan Street/Rossville Street, Derry
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Michael Quigley, IRA, was shot dead at age 19 by the British Army during a riot in Creggan, Derry, in 1972, near the spot of this memorial plaque in Central Drive.
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December 2017 saw the 45th anniversary of the attack by loyalist gunmen on Annie’s Bar in the Top Of The Hill area of the Waterside (Derry Journal). Four Catholics and a Protestant were killed. “In memory of Charles Moore, Frank McCarron, Michael McGinley, Bernard Kelly, Charles McCafferty who were killed in Annie’s Bar on the 20th December 1972.”
Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry
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Here are two memorials from O’Doherty’s Keep in Buncrana, Co Donegal, originally a 14th century Norman Castle. Cahir Rua O’Dogherty/O’Dochartaigh/O’Doherty was a Gaelic lord loyal to the Queen of England (in opposition to the O’Donnells), but launched a rebellion, perhaps to settle a score with Sir George Paulet, governor of Derry, who was harassing the remaining Gaelic lords. O’Doherty was killed in the battle of Kilmacrennan in 1608 (WP | WP).
The other is to leader of the United Irishmen, Wolfe Tone, who was arrested in Lough Swilly in 1798 and held in Buncrana Castle before being moved to Derry and then Dublin, where he was executed.
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The Troubles in Belfast started in August 1969 with sustained rioting around Divis flats. On the night of August 14-15, nine year-old Patrick Rooney was hit in his home in the Divis flats by a bullet from an RUC machine-gun; he was the first child killed in the Troubles. A little later, 20 year-old Hugh McCabe, a (Catholic) British soldier on leave, was hit while dragging an injured person to safety on the roof of another flat (WP).
Divis Street, west Belfast
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“Green River – in honour of our dead. In tribute to the people of Beechmount and surrounding areas.” A booklet detailing the lives of IRA, Sınn Féın, and local republicans appeared in 1998 (An Phoblacht) inspired by Seando Moore (Danny Morrison).
Locan Street, Beechmount, west Belfast
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IRA volunteers Albert Kavanagh and Stan Carberry were both killed in 1972. Carberry was killed in La Salle Drive, the site of this plaque (at its junction with the Falls Road, Belfast).
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“In memory of a dear friend.” UVF volunteer Denver Smith was killed in the early morning of January 1st, 2000 by a gang of six men with machetes and pikes; the incident was perhaps drugs-related (Guardian | BBC-NI. For the wider picture An Phoblacht | Irish Times).
Parkhall Road, Antrim with kerbstones in the colours of the UVF.
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