Ballyclare

Staunch We Will Remain

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This is an update to the WWI ‘Ballyclare & District’ mural in Charles Drive. Originally, in 2016 there was ‘South East Antrim’ lettering on the side-wall to the right; in 2019 the orange board with words from Binyon’s For The Fallen (shown last below) was added to the left; on the right now is the board shown above: “The blood of our comrades shed/Shall not have been in vain/We honour Ulster’s dead/And staunch we will remain.” The same lines were used in Ballymoney and in Cloughfern.

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Welcome To The Grange Estate

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An explicitly UDA mural returns to the Grange estate (Ballyclare); the previous Young Guns board fell down. Two men were imprisoned in October (2022) (Belfast Live) and November (4NI), the former from the estate, in connection with investigations into the Ballyclare UDA in February, 2021. Two others were arrested in Larne and Ballyclare in September (BelTel).

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Politician, Barrister, Ulsterman

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Sir Edward Carson, 1854-1935, was born and raised in Dublin, and practiced law there for many years, but he is most famously associated with the Unionist campaign against Home Rule and the creation of “a Protestant province of Ulster” and eventually the six-county state of Northern Ireland.

This mural is by Dee Craig (Fb) in Ballyclare’s Grange Drive. It was originally painted in 2017 but was repaired in 2020.

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The Men Of 108th Brigade

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In the Great War, the men from Ballyclare generally joined the 12th (Central Antrim) battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles (the emblem of which is on the left), and were assigned to the 108th brigade along with others from south Antrim and County Down.

The wear on this mural suggests that it might have been painted (by Dee Craig – Fb) at the same time as Ballyclare Remembers, for the centenary of the Somme; there is no record of it in any of the usual sources or Dee’s page.

Rashee Court, Ballyclare

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