McMaster and Lendrick streets – part of a conservation site of Victorian terraced houses (Dept For Communities) – were the epicentre of last week’s anti-immigration riots, with cars and houses in the street set ablaze and families evacuated to safety by the security forces (BBC video).
Also in the street: An Act Of Betrayal (about the Sea Border) and (before that, c. 2010) Young Newtown UDA.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09293
“1st south Belfast LSC [Fb] remembers. Lest we forget.” “To the glory of God and in honourable memory of the former players from Linfield Football Club who laid down the glory of their youth upon the altar of freedom during the Great War of 1914 – 1918.
The main part of this new board in the Village shows the Linfield memorial at Bertrancourt, France. The memorial was unveiled in 2022 (BBC). The BBC article explains the reference to “Rifleman Walker” in the poem by Johnny Jamison at the centre of the memorial: Walker had been a Linfield player before joining the Royal Irish Rifles and dying on May 6th, 1916. Jamison recites his poem in this Fb video. In the background is the familiar Ulster Tower.
Broadway, the Village, south Belfast. For the small boards above, see Village Team On Tour and I Would Rather Be An Ulsterman.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09251 T09253 T09254 T09252
The association of lions with the English monarchy goes back to Henry II and his sons Richard (“the lionheart”) and John (WP). Why they were represented by lions is unclear; it perhaps stems from the prominence of lions in the Bible and the Lion Of Judah from Genesis 49:9.
These lions, somehow carrying Union Flags, are in Lord Street at Lord Street Mews, east Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09233 T09234 T09235 T09236 T09237
A memorial service was held at the Times Bar on Friday (June 5th) (News Letter) to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the attack on the Times Bar in 1976, in which Edward McMurray and Robert Groves were killed by a republican bomb. (An image of the bombed bar can be found on Xitter.)
Three plaques were added to the memorial garden where the service took place, to William Haddock, James Smyth, and William Flynn. (Compare to 2019.)
As the images from May 10th, below, show, a painted mural was originally planned for the spot.
May 10th:
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09220 [T09221] T09223 T09222
T09081 T09082
T09224 T09225 T09226
The colours of the third (Carrickfergus) battalion of the Central Antrim regiment of the Ulster Volunteers can be seen at Sam’s Flags. They are very similar to the piece shown above, except for the addition of the emblem in the top right corner (close-up immediately below) which shows the Ulster Volunteers drilling with a machine-gun mounted in a car, preparing to resist Home Rule – see this 1988 mural and the photograph in this History Ireland article. (See also UVF Motor Car Corps.) In the Royal Irish Rifles of WWI, however, Central Antrim became the 12th battalion (War Time Memories Project).
Next to the Central Antrim flag is a board marking the “110th anniversary of the Battle Of The Somme 1 July 1916 – 1 July 2026. Honouring their courage, remembering their sacrifice. Lest we forget.”
Hawthorn Avenue/Sandes Court, Sunnylands, Carrickfergus, replacing Remembering Our Fallen.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09217 T09218 T09216
T09219
All About Us (web) offers services for teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) out of its office in Greystone Mall/Antrim Enterprise. The walls and many of the shutters on the building are covered in art, painted with help from Visual Waste (web) – a few are shown here.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09187 T09188 T09189 T09190
T09191 [T09192] T09193 [T09194] T09195 T09196
This UDA emblem is on a gable wall at the back of a house in Queen’s Road, but serves as the upper limit between the UVF Steeple (Parkhall Road) and the UDA Kilgreel Road areas of Antrim. Some of the UDA board have gone from Kilgreel Road, and those that remain are in poor condition, but this one was re-painted/repaired relatively recently (c. 2020). The original, which dates back to at least 2008, was black – see the Peter Moloney Collection. The main mural in the estate is kept in good condition.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09186 T09185
“In eternal memory, UVF Volunteer Jimmy Fee.” This entry updates 2023’s Pass Not This Spot In Sorrow, which showed a painted UVF flag in memory of Jimmy Fee. This has been replaced by a printed board which contains a photographic portrait of Fee. As reported in that earlier entry, there is no information readily available about Fee, who perhaps died around 2016, when the original mural was painted. The two upper boards (in the shape of gravestones) have been retained from the earlier work, while the “north Antrim/Londonderry battalion, south Antrim brigade – remember them with pride” board is new.
Parkhall Road, Steeple, Antrim. The WWII banner is in the nearby Steeple Park.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09181 T09182 T09183 T09184
“From Queens Park to the house of Windsor: thank you for your devoted service.” This entry updates 2022’s The Longest Reign, which celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee. Although Elizabeth became queen in February 1952, most of the celebrations took place around the bank holiday Elizabeth in early June. Elizabeth died in September of the same year, and the board (after the interim “Booked“) has now been changed into a memorial.
Queens Avenue, Glengormley, Newtownabbey
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09174 T09175 T09176 T09173
This is a one-off piece of art in the Edenderry industrial estate, on the Crumlin Road. Get in touch if you know what the “dark horse” refers to.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T09170 [T09171]
Paddy Duffy Collection 