Orange Order/ABOD

Stand Off! Trade Off!

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This “stand-off – trade-off” mural reappears in Artana Street, Belfast, previously recorded in Stand Firm. The mural dates to 1998, when an Orange Order march was allowed to parade along Ormeau Road. Parades Commission chairman Alistair Graham (pictured in the mural beneath the evil-eyed OO member) “insisted that the Ormeau Road decision “was not a simple trade-off for our earlier decision on Drumcree”” (Irish Times).

Painted by Troy Garity, recreating an Ian Knox cartoon (Belfast Media).

Artana Street, lower Ormeau, south Belfast

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Copyright © 2010 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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Drumcree

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These are 2008 images of the Drumcree mural in the lower Shankill estate, seen previously in 2004. The mural would be “re-imaged” in 2009.

“Here we stand, we can do no other” adapts Luther’s saying at Worms to the standoff in Portadown between the Orange Order and Catholics on the Garvaghy Road, which links the church at Drumcree (shown in the mural) with the town centre.

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Drumcree

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“We demand the right to march.” This mural in the lower Shankill is about the disputed Orange Order parade (WP entry, including a map of the route) to Drumcree Church in Portadown, part of which goes along the CNR Garvaghy Road.

“Here we stand, we can do no other” is a variation on Martin Luther’s pronouncement at Worms, the subject of this mural.

North Boundary Street, lower Shankill estate, west Belfast

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Copyright © 2004 Cathal Woods
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H-Block Martyrs

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The large board on the left commemorates the 10 dead hunger strikers (WP) and two blanketmen. “No greater love” echoes John 15:13.

There are also two smaller boards on the right: first, “Same old mural, same old force” with the three-in-one figure of RUC, Orange Order, and loyalist paramilitary under a traffic “No” symbol; second, an interesting board alleging collusion between the RUC and the UDA and UVF in north and east Belfast.

Oldpark Road, north Belfast

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Copyright © 2004 Cathal Woods
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