July 6th and Cluan Place is festooned with bunting and flags (including Israeli flags) in preparation for the Twelfth. Along the side of the entryway sit discarded pieces of furniture that (hopefully) won’t be going on the small bonfire – here is the 2009 version.
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A Somme/WWI soldier contemplates a grave next to a hill of poppies. The art is on the shutters of the Peppercorn café on the Woodstock Road, east Belfast.
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Here is a gallery of images from the village of Stoneyford, ten miles north of Lisburn. The view in the final image is from the cross-roads at north end of the village, with the brazier next to the WWI memorial visible on the right, and the nameplate on the fence on the left. The Orange Hall is in the middle of the village. The village was a centre for the small anti-Agreement organisation the “Orange Volunteers” (WP).
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This two-part mural shows (left) Orange Order flag-bearers and (right) a scene from the Siege of Derry, perhaps of James II demanding the city and being rebuffed with cries of “No surrender”.
The Fountain, Londonderry, replacing Eddie Rides.
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“This Poppy Cross is in memory of the two men and two babies murdered at this spot by a no-warning sectarian IRA bomb attack on the Balmoral Furniture shop on 11th December 1971”
The previous (circular) plaque reads, “Balmoral Furniture Showrooms, bombed 12.25 pm Saturday 11th December 1971, 2 adults & 2 babies killed”
Also augmented with poppy crosses: Frizzell’s Fish Shop 1993 | Mountainview Tavern 1975
Shankill Road, west Belfast – the plaque and cross are on the corner of the Shankill Leisure Centre
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The part of Black Mountain used to display the lettering “36th Ulster [sic] Div.” is further north (and so around towards Highfield and Glencairn) than the site of republican “messages on the mountain“. The lettering was mounted ahead of a parade celebrating the 99th anniversary of the Somme (and the creation of the Ulster Volunteers in 1912).
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This is the fourth iteration of the hunger-strikers board in Rockmore Road, which goes back (at least) to 1995. For two earlier versions, see third | first.
Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg are included alongside the ten deceased men from the 1981 strike.
Rockmore Road, west Belfast
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bobby sands mp 5th may francis hughes 12th may raymond mccreesh 21st may patsy o’hara 21st may joe mcdonnell 8th july michael gaughan 3rd june 1974 frank stagg 12th february 1976 martin hurson 13th july kevin lynch 1st august kieran doherty 2nd august thomas mcelwee 8th august michael devine 20th august st james’s commemoration committee sınn féın
“Fıann [sic] Robert Allsopp lived at this address. Died on active service March 3rd 1975. Fuaır sé bás ar son na hÉıreann. 1959-1975” Allsopp died at the family home (on the New Lodge Road) from the accidental discharge of a gun. The O’Neill-Allsopp flute band is named in his honour (and in honour of Jim O’Neill) and the band has a mural in Donore Court.
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“Don’t shout IRA, join IRA” – anti-Agreement graffiti on Divis Street, west Belfast
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“RNU call for the release of Leonard Peltier – http://www.freeleonard.org“. The lower left-hand panel of the RNU spot on Northumberland Street is serving as a changeable notice-board – it was previously The Popular Front.
Peltier has been in jail since 1977, convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 and sentenced to two life-sentences (WP).
Northumberland Street, west Belfast
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