Author: Extramural Activity

McFadzean And Miller

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The UVF’s William Millar (here given as “Miller”) was ambushed, along with Bobby Morton, by the RUC on the 16th of March 1983 – Millar died and Morton was injured (Long Kesh Inside Out). His death is put in parallel with the WWI service of William McFadzean, who won the VC for throwing himself on a fallen box of grenades on the first day of the Battle Of The Somme. The McFadzean family home (Rubicon) is only half a mile away from this mural.

Cappagh Gardens, Cregagh, Castlereagh

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Cloughfern Young Conquerors

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From left to right: “Drumcree – no surrender”, Britannia with a Union Flag and an Ulster Banner shield, Ulster Young Militants, UDA, UFF, “South East Antrim Brigade”, “Cloughfern Young Conquerors [Fb] est. 1973″ with the flag of independent Northern Ireland, and a pair of hooded gunmen flanking a wreath “dedicated in rememberance [sic] of Gerry Evans”. Evans was killed by the INLA on April 27th, 1994, shot at his shop in the Northcott centre. (Lost Lives 3472. Sutton describes Evans as a “civilian”.)

Painted by “Artists Hazey / Neeky” in Knockenagh Avenue, Newtownabbey

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War Or Peace?

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“War or peace, north or south.” A hooded gunman from “Seymour Hill UFF” stands with his back to an explosion on O’Connell Street, Dublin.

“To the politicians: words are not enough for the peace and freedom of the children and the people of Ulster – “deeds and actions”. To our freedom-fighters: the supreme sacrifice is to lay down your life for your country. Some have given everything, others have yet to give.” The same wording (with “volunteers” instead of “freedom-fighters”) appears in a UVF mural in east Belfast.

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No 5 Platoon

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“No 5 platoon, A company, 1st battalion, Shankill, west Belfast”. Hooded gunmen crouch in front of a St Andrew’s Saltire and an Ulster Banner, with a UVF flag on top.

A plaque “in memory of a true soldier, Big Bill Campbell” was later added (see the Peter Moloney Collection).

Northland Street, west Belfast

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Timeless Time

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In Aboriginal cultures, “Dreamings” are the stories – in words or in paintings – of the creation and persistence of the Aboriginal peoples and lands, and their inter-relation. They belong to the person or tribe who told the story; it’s not know how this image came to be painted in Belfast’s New Lodge, or whether it is an authentic dreaming.

It shows two slender figures in black – one female, one male – looking upward at a jagged red circle/sun, all three of them contained in an inverted egg-like shape, itself surrounded (above) by a field of stars (including a small Plough) and (below) a variety of snake-like shapes and other designs.

Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast

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Free Catalonia, United Ireland

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The Catalan Countries include (in Spain) Catalonia, parts of Valencia, and the Balearic islands, plus Andorra, and (in France) the Roussillon region. In the separatist flag – the “Estelada” – the white star stands for freedom and the blue triangle stands for the sky of humanity (Vexillology), on top of the four red bars of the Senyera (WP). 

Rossnareen, west Belfast

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Release All POWs Now

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“Saoırse” [freedom]. Both male and female prisoners of war are represented in this mural: by the male and female faces — the male above the silhouette of Long Kesh, the female behind bars (presumably of Armagh prison) – and by the (formerly astrological) symbols for male (Mars) and female (Venus). The mural is signed (top left): “G[erard Mo Chara] Kelly 95″.

Kinallen Court, Ormeau, south Belfast

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The Women Of 1916

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Text would later be added along the bottom reading, “This mural is dedicated to the Women of Cumann Na mBan, Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann & Sınn Féın.” Image “from R[uth] Taillon’s book The Women Of 1916.” Taillon is a Canadian who moved to Belfast in 1980 and has been doing work with the women’s movement in the north and on women’s history – see NVTv.

Hawthorn Street, west Belfast. There was also a mural on the low wall to the left – see The Soldiers Of Cumann Na mBan.

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