Loyalist boards showing a (UVF) hooded gunman and a tiger from the “Mount Vernon Volunteers” wearing a purple beret, on Ross House, the Mount Vernon tower block. On the upper floors are an Ulster Banner and Union Flags.
See also: Families Against Supergrass Trials.
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This is one of the most famous murals in Belfast on account of its position overlooking the entrance of Mount Vernon and the M2 – the central gunman appears to be aiming right at you as you come down the off-ramp to the Shore Road. The original mural (T00138 | D00382) – which dates back to the ceasefire (1995) – was on a gable at the front of the estate but the entire block of houses was knocked down (c. 2000 – BelTel). It was later recreated (though without the words “3rd battalion” above “North Belfast) in the current more elevated position.
Another gunman-aiming-right-at-you mural is the UDU mural in the lower Shankill estate.
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Here is another mural celebrating the Northern Ireland football team with the slogan “our wee country” on the top part of a wall of the Times Bar in York Road.
George Best is on the left and David Healy on the right.
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This vintage UDA/UFF stencil goes back to the time of the ceasefire and the Agreement.
On the shutters of A1 Alterations on the Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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A Union Flag in the window of a house on the Lower Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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A detail from a board in Tower Street (off the Lower Newtownards Road) featuring a young girl carrying a union flag – a famous photograph from VE Day, 1945. For the whole mural, see M04869.
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The industrial high-point of Belfast, according to this mural, would seem to be when people travelled on trams, cloth was woven by hand, and Titanic sat in dry dock. Only the Shorts-Bombardier aircraft confuses the nostalgia.
Bloomfield Ave, east Belfast
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Another union jack, this time on the Shore Road, next to a banner boasting that Crusaders (see previously one | two) are “All Ireland Champions 2012”, having won the Setanta cup (WP). “Setanta” is Cú Chulaınn’s original name (Visual History); Setanta sports-television business based in Dublin (WP).
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Protests over the December 3rd vote not to fly the union jack every day at Belfast City Hall continued last night (2012-12-17 — video from BBC-NI | U.tv). The image above shows a flag flying on the loyalist side framed by the pedestrian gate on Northumberland Street. The image below shows one shot across the Cupar Way “peace” line, from Conway Street.
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A Union Flag flies together with an Israeli flag on O’Neill Road over the Rathcoole estate (which saw some rioting last week over the removal of the Union Flag from Belfast city hall) and a Red Hand Commando mural.
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