UDA volunteers in balaclavas and tracksuit tops pose with their assault rifles.
Lemberg Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1999 Paddy Duffy
T00446
Roden Street UDA
UDA/UFF/UYM
Bangor Young Newton
Young Newton is the Newtownards Road division of the Ulster Young Militants (UYM) and formerly a Tartan Gang. This mural, however, is in Kilcooley estate, Bangor, indicating the close connection between the UDA in the estate and in east Belfast.
The wall to the right reads “Freedom Corner II” – again a connection to east Belfast and the series of walls called “Ulster’s Freedom Corner“. See J0475 for a wider image.
Drumhirk Drive, Kilcooley, Bangor
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Copyright © 1999 Paddy Duffy (no date given)
T01180
We Demand The Truth!
“We demand the truth! International investigation into the death of Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.” Finucane and Nelson were both solicitors with nationalist and republican clients. Finucane was shot by the UDA in front of his wife and three children in 1989; RUC collusion was immediately suspected (and the weapon came from a UDR armoury) (WP). Nelson was killed by an LVF (“Red Hand Defenders”) car-bomb in March, 1999 (WP); the report of the eventual inquiry into her death can be found at CAIN. The allegation in the illustration here is that when the mask of loyalist “murder gangs” is lowered, the Orange Order and RUC are found behind it. “Disband the RUC”
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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Copyright © 1999 Paddy Duffy
T00365
UDA Memorial Garden
UDA/UFF volunteers wearing balaclavas kneel, and stand with lowered weapons, “In memory of fallen comrades south Belfast brigade”.
Lemberg Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1999 Paddy Duffy
T00269
The Village Team
“Ulster Young Militants – The Village Team – South Belfast Brigade” with flags of the UDA and UFF.
Broadway, the Village, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1999 Paddy Duffy
T00265
Common Sense UDP
The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) was the political wing of the UDA, and supported a policy of an independent Northern Ireland (as described in the policy document ‘Common Sense‘). It won a few council seats in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and dissolved in 2001) (BBC-NI).
The top-right panel is similar to this Victor Patterson photograph of the farmers’ protest at Stormont during the Ulster Workers’ Council strike that brought down the Sunningdale Agreement in 1974.
Bellevue Street, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1998 Paddy Duffy
T00260 [T00263]
In The Love Of Our Country
“In the love of our country, some have give[n] something, some have give[n] everything, others have yet to give. Quis separabit. UDA/UFF.” UYM mural with a crudely drawn hooded-gunman. There is “RIRA” graffiti in three places.
Albion Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1998 Paddy Duffy
T00264
Release Our Prisoners
The scroll on the left between the emblems of the UDA, UYM, UFF and the Ulster banner reads, “In memory of our freedom fighters who fought and died for Ulster. It was not for glory they fought nor honour or riches but freedom alone which no good man should lose but with his life.” There is a pair of manacled red fists above the central UFF emblem, which itself rests on a free-floating outline of Northern Ireland superimposed with the Ulster banner. On the right is a crouching volunteer from A battalion, from south Belfast’s Sandy Row.
Linfield Road, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1998 Paddy Duffy
T00247
Young Newton
“In proud memory of comrades A. Petherbridge, G. Reid, K. Watters, W. Warnock, R. Warnock. [In memory of our fallen comrades. We forget them not. Terrae filius. East Belfast brigade UDA-UFF.] At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Young Newton.” “UDA East Belfast. Ulster Freedom Fighters. Quis separabit.”
The fine condition of the murals suggests that the missing wording (on the plinth) has yet to be added. A very low wall to the right of frame reads “Formed to fight for the right to remain in the United Kingdom.”
All five of the named volunteers died in the early 1970s: Petherbridge 1973-02-07, Reid 1974-02-26, Watters 1974-02-17, W Warnock 1972-10-16, and R Warnock 1972-09-13. Young Newton was an east Belfast “tartan” gang (History Ireland) and then part of the UYM (WP).
Fraser Pass (later Pitt Place), east Belfast
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Copyright © 1997 Paddy Duffy
T00246 [T00253]
Sandy Row UDA
“Sandy Row South Belfast” UDA/UFF volunteers in balaclavas and camo gear fire a funeral volley “in proud memory of our fallen comrades. We forget them not – at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Boyne Court, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1997 Paddy Duffy
T00252
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