The main figure is from Jim Fitzpatrick’s The Coming Of Lugh and the two horsemen on the left are from Lugh The Il-Danna.
For more Jim Fitzpatrick drawings reproduced in murals, see the Visual History page.
The mural was perhaps painted for the Ardoyne Fleadh, and perhaps by Sean Doran, who worked on the Blind Piper in 1994 and produced posters for the Fleadh in 1996, 1997, and 1998.
Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast
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A pair of manacled red fists break free of their chains and the Maze/Long Kesh is depicted in the outline of Northern Ireland. “Free the prisoners”, “All gave some, some gave all.”
No particular paramilitary group is mentioned, though this is UDA territory.
Bellevue Street, Shankill, west Belfast
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Trevor “Kingso” King served time for his part in the Battle At Springmartin in 1972, in which seven people, including a British soldier, died. In 1994, having been shot by the INLA and paralysed from the neck down, King took the decision to remove his own life-support (WP).
The emblem of the PAF is out of shot to the left; the UVF emblem in the centre is flanked by the Ulster Banner and UVF flag. “1st Belfast battalion, ‘B’ company.”
Disraeli Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
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Brian Robinson was shot by the British Army in September, 1989, immediately after he had shot and killed a Catholic (Paddy McKenna) walking along Crumlin Road (WP). The mural features Robinson’s portrait in a wreath (“For God and Ulster – 1st Batt. B. Coy”) and the emblems of the UVF and PAF.
Disraeli Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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“This mural is a memorial to the volunteers of A Coy 1st Batt who served the Shankill community so bravely during the years of conflict. Gone but not forgotten.” The flags being held on either side are of the Shankill Protestant Boys (1st battalion, Ulster Volunteers) and the USSF.
Canmore Street, Shankill, west Belfast. Paddy Duffy’s British Telecom van is parked on the Shankill, to the right of the image.
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An extra-wide UFF mural showing a red right hand raising a rifle.
Stroud Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
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“In proud and loving memory of our comrades who have sacrificed their lives. They gave their all so that we may live in freedom.” The Woodvale Defence Association (“WDA” along the bottom) was the largest of the local associations which merged together in 1971 to form the Ulster Defence Association (UDA/UFF) and the WDA became B company of 2nd battalion (WP).
Ohio Street, Woodvale, west Belfast
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“Present peace now stills our hand/Death no longer stalks our land./Our weapons are silent and shall remain/But if needed, we shall rise again.” UDA volunteers in fatigues hold on to their weapons while the peace process continues. On the right: “In memory of the officers and volunteers of A Coy UDA UFF who unselfishly dedicated their lives in defence of their country. Quis separabit. Feriens tego.”
Above is printed board with a silhouetted POW in front of a watch-tower. “LPOW – you are not forgotten”
On the community centre in the middle of High Green, Highfield, west Belfast
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“It is not for glory we fight, nor riches, nor honours – but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life.” (from the Declaration Of Arbroath). A UDA/UFF gunman from A battalion, South Belfast brigade, is ready to fire.
Similar in style to the pair of murals in Snugville Street.
Roden Street, south Belfast
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Copyright © 1996 Paddy Duffy
T00219
The third mural by the Bogside Artists (after The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette – Visual History) is “Bloody Sunday” (painted with Sean Loughrey), painted for the 25th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It reproduces a Fulvio Grimaldi photograph of local priest Edward Daly waving a blood-stained handkerchief in advance of four men carrying the body of Jackie Duddy. The left-most figure has been changed into a British paratrooper, and he is trampling on a “civil rights” banner similar to the one later used to cover a body. In the background is an image from earlier in the day, of the civil rights march from Creggan to the Bogside.
Lecky Road/Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
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