This is just one of the nine kids and local community boards (five from the Charter Youth Club, four from the Sandy Row Womans Group [sic]) at the blind end of Blythe Street, Belfast. The panel in the middle right of this one is of kids taking part in “Give Sectarianism The Boot” an initiative of the IFA and Community Relations Council.
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“Welcome to Sandy Row, [south Belfast] Northern Ireland”
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The Irish Football Association is the organising body of the Northern Ireland soccer team. Belfast-born players Warren Feeney and Grant McCann are featured (please e-mail with corrections).
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Jim Shannon became MP for Strangford in May 2010, filling Iris Robinson’s vacant seat, and gave up his Assembly seat in August. Pictured is the DUP advice centre in Frances Street, Newtownards.
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Heroes from the Celtic’s past Charlie Tully (of Belfast and Glasgow Celtic), Willie Maley (the first manager), Br. Walfrid (founder of the club in 1888), Jock Stein (manager in 1967) look down over the current team “doing the huddle”.
Friendly Street, Markets, south Belfast
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The Black Watch or Royal Highlanders was a Scottish infantry battalion during WWI. It is celebrated here in the Bowtown estate, Newtownards. The board is topped with both UDA and UVF flags.
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This mural mixes the Ulster Volunteers who fought at the Somme, Ypres, Arras, Thiepval, St Quentin, Grandcourt, Messines, Fricourt with local volunteers from the modern-day UVF: William Hannagan, William Lightbody, Stephen Campbell, Stuart Allan, Keith McKinstry, Eddie Moreland, Michael McKeague, Thomas O’Brien, Jim Moore, David Stirling.
Across the street from a UDA mural.
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UDA insignia in Abbot Crescent, Newtownards.
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A bald eagle carrying a medallion reading “Commonwealth of Kentucky. (Dan Boone led the settlers into Kentucky, according to the mural previously in this spot.) United we stand, divided we fall” flies alongside a sailing ship carrying Ulster-Scots emigrants to the United States (the outer jib shows a thistle surrounded by shamrocks).
Abbot Gardens, Newtownards
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Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne was a rugby player, boxer, golfer, and solicitor, and in WWII a commando and one of the first members of the SAS (Special Air Service), participating in raids behind enemy lines in Egypt and Libya (depicted in the board above), and later, as SAS commander, in France, Belgium and other countries. His many decorations, including the DSO (four times) and French Croix De Guerre and Legion D’Honneur, are pictured below. His WP page includes an explanation of the ribbon bars.
Mayne was born in Newtownards and returned there at the end of the war. His statue stands in the town’s Conway Square and this board can be found in Queen Street.
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