The red hand of Ulster in three configurations: “We are proud, defiant, welcoming.” Mural by Blaze FX depicting polaroids of the blitz, the Twelfth, sports, murals. The location of the mural is designed to be seen by tourists travelling between the so-called International Wall (and Northumberland Street murals) and the Shankill.
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The mural to UDA assassin Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag is again (or, still?) in progress. Compared to the 2009 version (itself incomplete) the poppies around the portrait have lost their leaves (perhaps due to a new background colour) and his dates of birth and death have been turned into a Union Flag and Ulster Banner. See also 2008 and 2007.
Hopewell Crescent, west Belfast
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The building of the 2010 bonfire in the lower Shankill estate gets under way. In the background is a mural to the RHC’s Stevie McCrea.
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Loyalist graffiti in Azamor Street: “Fuck off PSNI”, “WATP” [we are the people], “Ulster is owers”, “C coy UFF”, “L/S” [lower Shankill]
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Here is the (locked) main gate of the 1st Shankill Somme Association (Fb) garden of reflection, next to the Mountainview Tavern.
The metal-work shows the insignia of the 36th Division; the plaques on the gate-posts show the Ulster Tower memorial in Thiepval, France.
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Portrait of King William II of Orange, on the Brookmount Street side of the West Belfast Orange Hall, a.k.a the “Shankill Citadel” (Fb), which opened in 1898.
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This “C company, 1st Belfast battalion, Ulster Volunteer Force roll of honour” in Carnan Street, Belfast, uses WWI (USSF insignia, an image of soldiers on the battlefield, poppies, and a verse from In Flanders Fields) to commemorate 25 volunteers from the middle Shankill area. (For the first five, see also the plaque across the street.) The “Four Step” was a pub bombed in 1971 (see X02393).
Replaces the Greengairs Thistle FB mural – the band’s insignia is in the top right.
Carnan Street (renamed “C Coy Street”)
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UDA/UFF C company board high above on Northumberland Street, Belfast.
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“Fáılte Go Dtí Ard Eoın. Ardoyne – a confident, colourful, creative community, and the people who made it so” particularly the local schools, whose insignia are shown on the left: “Thnx 2 all r teachers past and present.” The previous mural in this spot (M01783) is invoked by the banner across the top: “Everyone has the right to live free from sectarian harassment” and the inclusion of Holy Cross Girls among the schools
Whitney Houston and Bobby Sands are invoked on the right “We believe the children are the future – value the laughter of our children“.
Estoril Park, Belfast
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