Property Of East Belfast UVF

These stencilled notices are on the outside of the Belvoir Bar in east Belfast: “Property of east Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force – Not for sale” alongside a plaque to “fallen comrades” Robert Bennett, Roy Walker, Joseph Long, James Cordner, and Robert Seymour. It seems that the bar has been shuttered since 2011 (Belfast Telegraph).

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Release The Prisoners

This Hillborough Drive stencil dates back to the ceasefire and the Agreement, when the release of political prisoners was a prominent issue in negotiations on both sides. Republicans had a “green ribbon” campaign; loyalists used the the stencil shown here, which has fared better than the plaster it is painted on.

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Prisoners & Ex-Prisoners

Facing each other in the Brompton Park entrance to Ard Eoın: “Support the prisoners – restore political status now!” from post-peace republicanism, and Cumann na n-Iarchımí Poblachtacha/Republican Ex-Prisoners Association (along with SNAP – Safer Neighbourhood Ardoyne Project – and Glór An Tuaıscırt/Voice Of The North) representing the pre-peace volunteers.

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