Welcome to loyalist Boyne Square in Larne. Herbert Street.
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Larne
Volunteer Andrew Cairns
“Erected in proud memory of Volunteer Andrew Cairns – Taken from us 12th July 2000 – A true soldier of Ulster”. UVF volunteer Cairns was killed at the Boyne Square bonfire in the UDA feud. See also Cairns & Johnston.
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Cairns & Johnston
Volunteer Andrew Cairns was killed by the UDA at the Boyne Square bonfire in 2000. Major Sinclair Johnston was shot dead by the British Army during a riot in St John’s Place in 1972. The mural commemorating them is in Wellington Green, Larne.
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Attack of the Ulster Division
Ulster Volunteers in the 36th (Ulster) Division go over the top at the Battle Of The Somme, 1916 – a partial recreation of JP Beadle’s “Battle of the Somme: Attack of the Ulster Division”, which hangs in Belfast City Hall (militaryprints.com). The base is a composite of orange lilies, thistles, and roses. Wellington Green, Larne.
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UVF
UVF insignia above a garage in Newington Avenue, Larne.
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South East Antrim Defenders
Spike the bulldog wears a bandsman’s uniform but carries an assault rifle. The South East Antrim Defenders flute band seems to have disintegrated after 2011. There was an almost identical board in Carrick.
Greenland Parade, Larne.
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UDA
Disintegrating UDA board in Greenland Parade, Larne.
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Ulster Volunteers
From left to right: a Union Flag, the emblem of the USSF [Ulster Special Service Force, elite units within the Ulster Volunteers], Carson and the Covenant, the gunrunning ship Clyde Valley, a red hand in a garland, crossed “1914” rifles, the memorial to the gunrunning near Chaine Memorial, soldiers going over the top, Ulster Tower, and a cross marking a grave.
Drumahoe Gardens, Larne.
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Craigy Hill Bollards
Red-white-and-blue bollards next to the Baptist Church in Churchill Road, Larne.
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Ulster Volunteers
Five panel Ulster Volunteer/36th (Ulster) Division mural in Bank Road/Glynn Road, Larne: volunteers training at Fernhill (see 90 Years Of Resistance) and in the trenches of WWI, punctuated by the emblems of the UVF, Ulster Division, and YCV.
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