Boards in Charlotte Street, clockwise from left to right around giant YCV [Young Citizen Volunteers] lettering in red, white, and blue: Union flag, Ulster Banner, 36th (Ulster) Division, St Andrew’s Saltire, Union flag.
M01529
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
In-progress shot of the Young Conquerors Flute Band “viking” mural in Pine Street, Belfast. On the left will be a Union flag, on the right a UVF regimental flag.
M01528
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
A piper plays over a soldier’s grave in a mural commemorating South Belfast 2nd battalion UVF volunteers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Pine Street, Belfast.
M01527
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
King Billy crossing the Boyne and trampling on a Jacobite soldier. According to a recent (2015) repainting, the mural was painted in 1989 by a “H. Gibson”. (See Cemented With Love on Extramural Activity.) Oak Street, Belfast.
M01526
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
South Belfast MP Robert Bradford was assassinated by the Provisional IRA in Finaghy at a meeting with constituents; the caretaker of the community centre, Ken Campbell, was also killed by the fleeing attackers. In late 1981, with the hunger strikes having ended only a month before, the killing was noted around the world and raised fears of broad civil unrest (BBC | NYTimes).
“Vita, veritas, Victoria” [life, truth, victory] is the motto of Londonderry. Here we have “vita, veritas, victa” [life, truth, conquered; perhaps the intended meaning was “conquering” rather than the passive]. The crest is also not quite the crest of the Apprentice Boys, with a ship in the bottom right rather than a skeleton. Get in touch if you can resolve either discrepancy.
M01525
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
The apocryphal book of the Bible Ecclesiasticus reads “their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore” (44:14), which is here applied to 910,000 “British empire casualties” from the Great War, including the Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers raised by “Sir Edward Carson” which became the 36th (Ulster) Division and particularly the Royal Irish Rifles and fought at the Somme 1916. Apsley Street, Belfast.
M01520
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
The Young Citizen Volunteers are the youth wing of the UVF. This mural shows them on manoeuvres in the countryside and in the local Donegall Pass area of the South Belfast 2nd battalion. Walnut Street, Belfast.
M01522 M01523
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
UVF and YCV flags flying over a painted Union flag with “South Belfast Regiment II” in the centre. Eight thousand men signed up for the Ulster Volunteers from south Belfast. Charlotte Street.
M01521
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
“UDA” on a red, white, and blue tricoloured banner on a building site (Whitehall Square apartments). Napier Street, Belfast.
M01520
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
A hooded gunman welcomes you to “loyalist Sandy Row, heartland of South Belfast Ulster Freedom Fighters. Quis separabit.” Linfield Road, Belfast
M01519
Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
