“1912-2002 Ulster Volunteer Force – 90 years” linking the Ulster Volunteers of 1912 and WWI with the Carrickfergus company of the contemporary UVF’s 1st East Antrim Battalion. The Larches and Blackthorn Park in Carrickfergus.
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The main mural features the flags of the Ulster Volunteers and YCV, along with Ulster Banner and St Andrew’s Saltire, while the side wall features contemporary UVF brands. It is not clear who John Everitt – on the memorial stone – was. Please comment if you have information. The Larches, Carrickfergus.
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This Ulster Grenadiers Flute Band (Fb) board in Bridewell Drive, Carrickfergus, shows a modern grenade at the centre of the flags of the UK, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. If 1996 is the year the board was produced, it is 12 years old at the time of this photo.
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Rangers Football Club, founded in 1873, has its home in Glasgow, Scotland but has a large following among Northern Irish Protestants. Union Street, Portadown.
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These three are all from Carlow Street. In the first image, the “UFF” lettering has been over-painted with “UVF”. This is a vintage “bare background” (the wall is not completely painted) mural, dating back perhaps to 1994.
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UVF board on the back of the shops in the (loyalist) Irish Street area of Londonderry.
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This pair of images — “Deserted! Well – I can stand alone” from the anti-Home Rule campaign that continued during WWI and the other a more contemporary scene of “a protestant farmer’s wife guard[ing] her husband against sectarian attack from across the border” — was previously painted in (what remains of) Moscow Street, next to the Rex bar on the Shankill. (See X00066. See also M00558 lower Shankill | M00621 east Belfast | M02302 east Belfast). The plaque on the right was not originally part of the mural (see J2395) and the mural would later be modified by the removal of the Orange Order and St Andrew’s flags (but not the UVF emblem), replaced by a shamrock-strewn banner reading “Fight To A Finish” (M08026).
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Saint Andrew’s Saltire (on the left) is paired with a provincial Ulster flag (rather than an Ulster Banner), exceedingly rare in a loyalist mural. Larne Street, Harryville, Ballymena.
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Ibrox Stadium is the home ground of Scottish club Glasgow Rangers, which has a large following among Protestants in Northern Ireland. The bar was formerly the Bunch Of Grapes (owned by the UDA’s Jim Gray). It’s initial attempt to rebrand itself using Rangers’ logo and the name “Ibrox” drew threat from the club (Irish Independent), and it changed its livery to the Eye-brox bar shown above. Beersbridge Road, Belfast.
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Tigers Bay First Flute, “Est 1983” but apparently defunct by this time. In the style of the UDA emblem. For two of those listed on the side wall, see Bacon and Baird. T[ommy] English was killed by the UVF in 2000.
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