“West Belfast Taxi Association – providing a community transport systerm for over 35 years.”
The WBTA spot (2003 | 2005) moves down the International Wall (Visual History) a few spots and now takes the form of a mural featuring the Bobby Sands mural in Sevastopol Street.
Divis Street, west Belfast
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The Manchester Martyrs – IRB members William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O’Brien – were publicly hanged on November 23rd, 1867, for the killing of a Manchester policeman, Charles Brett. Brett was inside a prison van carrying two IRB leaders when it was set upon by 30 or more people (depicted at the top of the mural). The attendant escort fled, leaving Brett inside; he was killed by a bullet fired into the lock. Five people were convicted, one of whom, O’Meagher Condon, shouted “God save Ireland” during the trial – this was turned into an extremely popular song in memory of the three (Wolfe Tones version). Their graves were discovered in 2003 (Irish Times) and a campaign was waged to repatriate their corpses (Sınn Féın).
Divis Street, west Belfast
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These two “Join Sınn Féın” boards are above the Sınn Féın office on the Falls Road, Belfast. “Don’t wish for a united Ireland, work for it.”The second, with portraits of Pearse, Carney, and Sands, is an example of the Irish-language rights campaign which becomes a central policy around this time: Is í athgabháıl na Gaeılge athgabháıl na hÉıreann [the repossession of Irish is the repossession of Ireland]. (See previously Cearta Teanga, Cearta Daonna.)
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The village of Eden is being absorbed by an expanding Carrickfergus, famous for the castle shown in the UDA board in the first image. King William’s True Blues flute band (KWTB) amalgamated with the South East Antrim Defenders. Sources are few but it seems that SEA Defenders disbanded in 2007 but was re-established in 2010. (See previously 2004.)
Larne Road, Eden
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Five panel Ulster Volunteer/36th (Ulster) Division mural in Bank Road/Glynn Road, Larne: volunteers training at Fernhill (see 90 Years Of Resistance) and in the trenches of WWI, punctuated by the emblems of the UVF, Ulster Division, and YCV.
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Frosted glass in the Bogside Inn, Derry, for the Free Derry Celtic Supporters Club, (the Derry No 1 supporters club – Fb).
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Here are two boards from behind Allen Interiors in Riverdale (Larne): King Billy crossing the Boyne and the UFF fist.
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DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] constituency office in Charles Street, Ballymoney. The office was opened in 2004 (Ballymoney Times). The lion was first used as the DUP’s emblem in 2001.
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This is a two-sided piece of road-work on Main Road, in Glynn, that can be approached from either direction. Heading north (towards Larne) you see “God save our queen” and going south (towards Magheramorne and Whitehead) “No surrender 1690” with Orange Order symbols crown, key, and ladder, and a list of Williamite battles: Derry, Enniskillen, Boyne, Aughrim.
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For the 25th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, images of the ten deceased strikers on Racecourse Road, Derry.
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