Invictus

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This printed display celebrates the creation of the Woodvale Defence Association as “Defenders of our community since 1969” which in 1971 merged with other associations to form the UDA, whose youth wing is the UYM (lower middle, “terrae filius” = “sons of the soil”) and which uses “UFF” (upper left, “feriens ego” = “attack to defend”) as a cover for military operation. The final emblem is of the LPA (Loyalist Prisoners’ Association, “quis separabit” = “none shall separate us”). The mural replaced by this one is in the bottom left, while the bottom right contains an image of Long Kesh in 1979. The main photograph is of a 1972 march on the Shankill.

On the side-wall, lines from Laurence Binyon’s poem For The Fallen of WWI are used: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun/And in the morning we shall remember them.”

Both pieces are a combination of printed poster and attached boards.

Disraeli Street, Belfast

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S Company, C Company

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Joe Coggle and Paul McClelland were arrested as they sat with weapons in a car on the Falls Road in 1991; they were jailed for 18 years (Independent) but released under the Agreement. The Sunday World also report that the pair were involved in the killing of David Braniff in 1989. Both UVF men are said to be deceased; Coggle died in September.

Coggle had previously served 18 months for running over and killing Elizabeth Masterson in Beechmount in 1986 and her descendants objected to the mural (Irish News | BBC).

S Company was a predecessor to C Company; it existed from 1969 to 1974, when C Company was formed (see M08105 for an older S Coy – C Coy mural in Ballygomartin). A previous UVF uzi can be seen in M01186.

For the mural of five volunteers to the right (in the wide shot), see C Coy Street.

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Donegall Street Street Art

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Here are five in a row on Donegall Street, in Belfast city centre, plus one from the other side of the street. Above is a 2018 piece by Alice Pasquini called ‘Glide’. The others are by …
Bust (2022)
Glen Molloy (2017)
Glen Molloy (2020?)
Lobster Robin (2022)
StarFighterA (2015)

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Respect

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On the left, singer Aretha Franklin is quoted as saying, “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”

Before he died (in 2005), Belfast-born soccer-player George Best (on the right) asked that people “remember me for my football” and the phrase became the title of a Best retrospective.

Glen Molly (ig) street art in Hill Street.

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Ring Of Peace

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The speech balloons that were added to the Ring Of Peace mural in Waring Street to advertise office space are still there, seven years later.

The bubbles read “Forget it, Muriel. I’m moving my business to CQHQ without you!” “Oh Jeff … It’s too close to the City Centre! I want to be with nature …”.

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The United Irishmen

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Four paintings by Michael O’Neill were added in 2008 to Warehouse Lane with the redevelopment of the Four Corners buildings (BBC) (at the junction of Waring Street and Donegall Street) depicting scenes from the history of the United Irishmen: Wolfe Tone and the Muddlers; Henry Joy McCracken goes to the gallows; Russell, Bunting, and Mary Ann McCracken; Russell with the first edition of the Northern Star.

Warehouse Lane at the Waring Street end. See also: the Visual History page on the Belfast Entries.

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