Cluan Place is a single street in east Belfast separated from (nationalist) Short Strand by a “peace” line. The mural features an unusual combination of Union Flag and Ulster Banner. For a history of Cluan Place, see Out Of The Ashes. “5 people shot – houses burnt – houses bombed. 20 families intimidated out by Sinn Fein/IRA. Still loyalist. No surrender.”
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A banner announcing the Rising Sons Flute Band outside their practice hall in Castlereagh Street, east Belfast. (Also from 2008: Rising Sons Flute Band mural.)
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“In August 1971 many Protestants fled their homes as the IRA launched a bitter sectarian attack on Protestant communities throughout Belfast. The loyal people of Liverpool held out the hand of friendship in our hour of need up to 2000 terrified women and children escaped from burning homes to live in the safety of Liverpool. That act of friendship by the people of Liverpool will never be forgotten. Liverpool – Belfast a bond never broken. No surrender ” With newspaper reports by the Belfast Telegraph and Liverpool Echo. Sponsored by the East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society. Canada Street, Belfast.
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This mural and its accompanying plaques, at the mouth of Canada Street, commemorate WWI and celebrate the nine Victoria Crosses won by members of the 36th (Ulster) Division “For valour”: Cather, McFadzean, Bell, Quigg, Emerson, De Wind, Seaman, Knox, and Harvey; the final plaque is McCrae’s In Flanders’ Fields. The main mural features insignia of more than thirty units of types ranging from machine gunners to vets.
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A mural in east Belfast listing local players who have played for Rangers, in Glasgow, Scotland. Featured in the centre is S. English, who scored 72 goals in 81 appearances, including 44 in the 1931-1932 season.
Ravenhill Street, Belfast.
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UVF stencil, perhaps dating back to the mid-1990s, in Pearl Street, Belfast.
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Tamery Pass (and Willowfield Walk) lies below Beersbridge Road between Woodstock and Castlereagh roads. This mural, at the lower entrance to the area, celebrates the area’s contribution to the Young Citizen Volunteers who fought in WWI. Willowfield Street, Belfast.
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Cloth-capped men from Lord Street head to work at local mills and across to Queen’s Island (originally Dargan’s Island) to work at Harland & Wolff shipyard, with Cave Hill (in north Belfast) looming behind.
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Streetreach is an annual programme in which churches work to improve local areas. Pearl Street, Belfast.
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“Rising Sons Flute Band (Fb) East Belfast 1985″ with the emblem of the Red Hand Commando on either side, flanking the insignia of the 36th (Ulster) Division, Ulster Volunteers, Royal Irish Rifles, UDR, and B-Specials (Ulster Special Constabulary). “Their name liveth forever more.” Seen in progress in 2005.
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