Category: Union Flag

• Older But No Wiser

  

  Steeple Veterans flute band is a part-time band drawing on “veterans” or “old boys” of the Steeple Defenders (which used to have a board nearby). The “older but no wiser” tag-line is exemplified by the fact that they dress up in costume each 12th for the return leg of the day– in 2023 they adopted…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-09

  Antrim/Randalstown, cultural, flute band, printed board/placard, PUL, St Andrew’s Saltire, UK royalty, Union Flag

• Four Lads Had A Dream

  

  ‘Four Lads Had A Dream’ is the name of Rangers song (youtube) but here the dream is not “to start a team” in Glasgow but to start a flute band in Monkstown, Newtownabbey. The result of the efforts of the four men – John Black, Freddie Maltman, Brian Crothers, Trevor Wilson – was Monkstown YCV…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-06

  cultural, flute band, Newtownabbey, printed board/placard, PUL, Ulster Banner, Union Flag, WWI

• Queen Of Angels

  

  Queen Elizabeth II died, aged 96, on September 8th, 2022, and is now (according to this board) queen of the angels in heaven (Matthew 28:2), which perhaps allows her to send other angels to Earth (Matthew 24:31) to deliver messages to chosen people. Also included (below) from the same street is a memorial tarp to…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-04-07

  Bangor/Holywood, banner/tarp, cultural, printed board/placard, PUL, UK royalty, Union Flag, WWI

• How Real Men ‘Take A Knee’

  

  Here is a survey of PUL boards (from left to right) at the shops in the centre of the village of Moygashel, just south of Dungannon. First is a British Army soldier in a firing position. Compare this board to Now Is The Time To Kneel in Clonduff, Castlereagh, which suggested that the time for…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-03-30

  assault rifle, B Specials/UDR/RIR, banner/tarp, British forces, children/youth, Dungannon/Coalisland, hood/mask/balaclava, painted board, physical force, plaque, printed board/placard, PUL, UK royalty, Union Flag

• 1916 Battle Of The Somme

  

  153 men of the 12th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (which included men from Ballymena and other Central Antrim Volunteers) died on the first day of the Battle Of The Somme, July 1st, 1916, as they and the 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers attempted to take German trenches near Beaucourt railway station (Royal Irish). According to the…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-01-07

  Ballymena, cultural, metalwork, painted board, painted wall, PUL, stone, Union Flag, WWI

• The Shape Of Things To Come

  

  Oakman St, west Belfast Click image to enlargeCopyright © 1981 Paddy DuffyT00024

  Extramural Activity

  1981-07-01

  Belfast, Belfast west, CNR, painted wall, physical force, Signature, Tricolour, Union Flag