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God Bless Paisley, Fitt Never

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2015-02-22 GodBlessPaisley+

Gardiner Street graffiti: “God Bless Paisley, Fitt Never.” The graffiti is more than 40 years old, dating to 1969 or earlier (it appears in the Sunday Times magazine 1969-03-23). In 1971, Ian Paisley founded the DUP (in September) and had supplanted Terence O’Neill as the leading unionist politician. Gerry Fitt at that time had recently formed the SDLP and would represent West Belfast under that affiliation in 1974 and 1979 until Gerry Adams won the seat in 1983. The Northern Ireland Assembly was still sitting.

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Welcome To The Shankill

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2015-02-18 WelcomeShankillFull+

The ‘Welcome To The Shankill’ board is looking the worse for wear, as can be seen particularly in the three close-ups below of the Boyardo memorial at Aberdeen Street, the (previously featured) Malvern Arch mural in Hopewell, and the Crumlin Road Gaol. For the two strips of ‘famous faces’ on either side, see Welcome To The Shankill Road.

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Glenfield Community Association

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2015-02-11 JoinTheUDAFull+

The 2010 work of Jade, Andi, Katie, Leigh, Ellen, Lyndsay, Shannon, and Hannah on the substation at the top of the Glenfield estate’s Oakfield Road has been replaced this week by a new UDA mural sporting a hooded gunman facing the viewer with a slogan borrowed from Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata: “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees in an Irish republic. Join the UDA.”. The two wide shots below allow you to compare the scene this week with last week.

The mural has been criticized by both DUP and Alliance councillors (Newsletter). The final words – Join the UDA – have drawn particular ire, as in other respects it is similar to other murals in featuring hooded gunmen, such as these two other Carrickfergus murals: Inclusion | Eternal Vigilance.

Nolan Show discussion of the mural on 2015-02-11: Part 1 | Part 2

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Alternative Ulster

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2015-02-06 CastlemaraUFF+

The upper flag on the right-hand side of this mural – purple saltire on a blue background with star and red hand – is the proposed flag of Ulster nationalists. The position was espoused by the UDA of the 1970s, under the guise of the political parties the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party and the Ulster Democratic Party, and for a time by the Red Hand Commandos under the Ulster Loyalist Central Coordinating Committee.

For the previous (identical) version, see UFF Carrickfergus in the Peter Moloney collection.

Previously: Northern Island. For the obscured mural on the right, see Out Of The Trenches.

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Spray-On Culture

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2015-02-06 SprayCulture+

Spray painting is an approved type of youth activity in this Glenfield/Castlemara community mural on a low wall on Oakfield Drive. You can see the ‘coat of arms’ (from the wide shot, below) of the Glenfield Community Association more clearly via their Facebook page.

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Between The Crosses

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2015-02-06 CFergusPoppies+

This mural in Carrick has a 3D element: 312 wood poppies were hand-painted and attached to the wall, one for each local man who did not return. By artist Gary Orr. Full shot below.

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X02501 X02502 Carrick Council, Boots Chemists, Sandra Pyper Ltd, Rustic Wood, Dalaradia, Gary’s Menswear, Robert Stewart at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

Show No Mercy

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2015-02-05 CastlemaraEddie+

“Show no mercy and expect none”. Iron Maiden’s Eddie the trooper, armed with an assault rifle and carrying a UDA flag, leads the grim reaper over the graves of “G. Adams”, “McGuinness” and “A. Maskey”. UDA/UFF mural in Carrickfergus.

For more on Eddie, see his Visual History page.

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Out Of The Trenches

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2015-02-05 CastlemaraYCV+

The Young Citizen Volunteers of 1912 eventually joined the Ulster Volunteers (in 1914) as the 14th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and part of the 36th (Ulster) Division (WP). In 1972 the name was resurrected for use as the youth wing of the UVF (WP). In the wide shot, below, this history is presented as a continuous movement from left to right; a modern-day hooded gunman climbs out of a WWI trench with one hand on a YCV flag.

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Omphalos

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2015-02-04 CarnhillDefenders+

A “Faugh-a-ballagh” flag (the motto of the Royal Irish Regiment) and two South-East Antrim Defenders (a defunct flute band (Fb)) boards – the one above showing a bulldog marching with a rifle, with “UDA” across his knuckles and the UDA insignia on his lapel – adorn this house in the Castlemara estate in Carrickfergus.

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