Here are five images from Barrack Hill in Armagh: a pair of murals showing a “UVF Gun-Smuggler 1913” and “Arms Training 1913”, along with some UVF nail-ups, one above a True Blues flute band board (Fb).
Barrack Hill/Gough Avenue, Armagh
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08397 M08387 M08399 M08303 [M08404] [M08405]
Copyright © 2015 Peter Moloney
M12085
On one side of the main board in this arch is King Billy and on the other flags and a coat of arms associated with the Orange Order. One of the flags reads “For the Protestant religion – Constitution 1688“; on the ribbon banner are the words “Sit lux [et] lux fuit. [Let there be light, and there was light]”
Previously seen in 2006.
Scotch Street, Armagh
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08381 [M08382] [M08383] [M08384] [M08385] [M08386] [M08387] [M08388] [M08389] [M08390] [M08391] M08392] [M08393] [M08394] [M08395] M08396
“Thug sıad a raıbh acú [sic] ar son saoırse na hEırınn [sic].” “From death springs life and from the graves of patriots springs a great nation. [from Pearse’s oration at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral].” The volunteers listed are Jake McGerrigan, Tony Hughes, Peadar McElvanna, Tony McClelland, Petter Corrigan, Seamus Grew, Roddy Carroll, Gerard Mallon, Sean McIlvanna [McIlvenna], Martin Corrigan, Dessie Grew. McGerrigan and Hughes were OIRA.
Emania Terrace, Armagh, above a plaque to Hughes and next to a memorial stone to McGerrigan and Hughes.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08369
“1935-1971” – Agnew’s name is recorded in republican rolls of honour (death on December 17th, 1971) and in other murals (Tullygally), but he does not appear in Sutton or McKittrick. If you have information, please comment or get in touch.
Callanbridge Park, Armagh
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08362
IRA volunteer Gerry McGeough (with a “u”) was jailed for the attempted murder of the UDR’s Samuel Brush in 1981. His appeal for a pardon, based on time served previously in Germany, was denied in March (BBC).
Moy Road, Armagh
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08361
Images of the arch in Main Street/Corcreevy Road, Richhill, Co. Armagh, next to the DUP advice centre.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08360 M08326 M08327
On June 27th, (2012) Martin McGuinness of Sınn Féın and formerly the IRA shook hands with Queen Elizabeth II, head of the UK’s armed forces (Guardian). Derry republicans took to the walls of Derry to express their feelings of betrayal.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08359
“Crime is crime is crime” said UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a 1981 news conference in Saudi Arabia. Her words are used against her and the UK government and armed forces: “We want you to tell us the truth [about collusion]”.
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08351 [M08352] [M08353a] [M08354] [M08764]
Black taxis were first brought from England to Belfast in 1970 by locals who wanted to provide an alternative, and locally-based, transport system to augment the Citybuses which were sometimes cancelled and sometimes burned out. The board above commemorates eight drivers who were killed during the troubles: Michael Duggan, Jim Green, Harry Muldoon, Paddy McAllister, Caoımhín Mac Brádaıgh, Thomas Hughes, Hugh Magee, and Paddy Clarke. “Providing Belfast with a public transport system for over 40 years.” “A Dhıa deán [sic] trocaıre [sic] ar a n-anamacha.” “Murdered in the service of their community.”
Beechmount Avenue, Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08346 [M08347] [M08348] [M08349] [M08350]
For the Twelfth Of July, 2012, portraits of William Of Orange, as coloured by Charter Youth Club, Sandy Row and Donegall Place Youth Club, were displayed along the Lisburn Road, Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
M08337 M08335 [M08336] [M08338] [M08339] M08440 [M08441] [M08442] [M08443] M08444
Peter Moloney Collection 