The orange lily makes a rare appearance in a paramilitary mural. The hooded gunmen are from the UFF/UDA. Volunteer Stephen “Benson” Kingsberry is remembered in the panel towards the back of the house. He died from consuming tainted ecstasy (perhaps distributed by the UVF). He was included in the roll of honour in Lemberg Street.
Kilburn Street, south Belfast
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Two images from the Imperial War Machine (Men Resting | Recreation of men going over the top on the first day of the Battle Of The Somme) are reproduced in a Pansy Street, Belfast, mural commemorating the Ulster Volunteers and the Young Citizen Volunteers.
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RMS Titanic makes its first appearance in a mural, on Dee Street, Belfast. The “unsinkable” ship, built in east Belfast at Harland & Wolff shipyards (shown in the skyline of the mural), hit an iceberg and foundered on the night of 14-15th April, 1912, killing approximately 1,500 people.
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“C Coy lost volunteers,” “In memory of the volunteers who made the supreme sacrifice” and “In memory of all loyalists who gave their lives – lest we forget.” Red Hand Commando mural and plaques in Hunt Street, just off the Newtownards Road, Belfast.
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Vintage RHC [Red Hand Commando] stencil on Newtownards Road calling for the release of loyalist prisoners.
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The 36th Division East Belfast regimental flag and the flag of the YCV, rather than of the Ulster Volunteers, flank a modified crest of the Division – the letters “EBPB” have replaced a harp and crown. “Our message is simple: Where our music is welcome we will play it loud; where our music is challenged we will play it louder.” “In memory of John Boyd Richard Cowan Steven Hamill. Always remembers by East Belfast Protestant Boys FB.” (Fb | tw)
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“UFF formed 1973.” Two hooded gunmen kneel on a free-floating Northern Ireland. Avoniel Road, Belfast.
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UDA/UFF/UYM insignia in Lord Street, Belfast. “Quis Separabit”, “Terrae Filius”.
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Sinn Féin councillor Joe O’Donnell (elected in the Pottinger district in 2001) became deputy mayor of Belfast City Council in 2004 (An Phoblacht article). He is lampooned in loyalist Cluan Place, Belfast, as “Deputy Dog [Deputy Dawg]”. See also: NVTv interview with O’Donnell.
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This entry features the final (side) wall to the right of the series of murals in Thorndyke Street. (For a list of entries for each panel, see East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society.) The various small panels thank a number of agencies, leading with the Ulster Scots Agency, and claim a copyright over the murals – which is something unusual with public art. There is also a verse from Romans (10v13) and Canadian physician John McCrae’s (1872-1918) poem In Flanders’ Fields:
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row/That mark our place; and in the sky/The larks, still bravely singing, fly/Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago/We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,/Loved and were loved, and now we lie/In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:/To you from failing hands we throw/The torch; be yours to hold it high./If ye break faith with us who die/We shall not sleep/Though poppies grow/In Flanders fields.”
With the emblems of Ballymacarrett LOL N0.6, Ballymacarrett Royal Black No. 4, the East Belfast Concerned Womens Group, and a grid of Commonwealth countries’ flags.
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