Republican graffiti, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1983. 'RUC Are Black Bastards'; this is not a racial insult, 'Black' here refers to the Royal Black Perceptory, a Protestant Organisation similar to the Orange Lodge.
1983
Graffiti; Republicans; RUC; IRA
Republican graffiti, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1983. Republican graffiti, Beechmount Avenue, West Belfast, 1983. 'RUC Are Black Bastards'; this is not a racial insult, 'Black' here refers to the Royal Black Perceptory, a Protestant...
1984
Murals; Loyalist; Shankill; Prisoners; UVF; UDA; YCV; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Percy Place, West Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts insignia of various Loyalist paramilitary organisations, from top left clockwise: UVF, UDA, Young Citizen Volunteers, Protestant Action Force. Centre: Ulster flag with map of Northern...
1984
Murals; Loyalist; Shankill; Prisoners; UVF; UDA; YCV; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Percy Place, West Belfast, 1984. Mural depicts insignia of various Loyalist paramilitary organisations, from top left clockwise: UVF, UDA, Young Citizen Volunteers, Protestant Action Force. Centre: Ulster flag with map of Northern...
1984
Murals; Loyalist; Shankill; UVF; UDA; YCV; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Percy Place, West Belfast, 1987. Detail of mural depicts insignia of various Loyalist paramilitary organisations, from top left clockwise: UVF, UDA, Young Citizen Volunteers, Protestant Action Force. Centre: Ulster flag with map of...
1987
Murals; Republicans; Sinn Féin; Censorship
Republican mural, Springhill Avenue/Springfield Road, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. Map of Ireland, with Sinn Féin symbol; 'Britain Ignores the Force of Argument Censored'; in 1988 the British Government banned British news organisations from...
1987
Murals; Loyalist; UVF; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts symbol of Protestant Action Force (covername for UVF operations), and contains threat: 'The UVF Reserve the Right to Strike at Republican Targets Where and When the...
1987
Murals; Loyalist; UVF; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts symbol of Protestant Action Force (covername for UVF operations), and contains threat: 'The UVF Reserve the Right to Strike at Republican Targets Where and When the...
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts on left, two Ulster Volunteer Force Volunteers with armalite rifle and Uzi sub-machine gun, on right, flags of UVF and YCV (Young Citizen Volunteers - Youth wing of UVF)...
1987
Murals; Loyalist; UVF; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts symbol of Protestant Action Force (covername for UVF operations), and contains threat: 'The UVF Reserve the Right to Strike at Republican Targets Where and When the...
Loyalist mural, Ohio Street, Shankill, North Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts on left, two Ulster Volunteer Force Volunteers with armalite rifle and Uzi sub-machine gun, on right, flags of UVF and YCV (Young Citizen Volunteers - Youth wing of UVF)...
1987
Murals; Loyalist; Prisoners; UVF; UDA; YCV; Protestant Action Force
Loyalist mural, Percy Place, West Belfast, 1987. Mural depicts insignia of various Loyalist paramilitary organisations, from top left clockwise: UVF, UDA, Young Citizen Volunteers, Protestant Action Force. Centre: Ulster flag with map of Northern...
1988
Murals; Loyalist; Siege of Derry; UDA; UDF; LPA; UFF
Loyalist mural, Shankill Road, West Belfast, 1988. Mural represents 'Shutting the Gates of Derry' against Catholic forces by the Protestant Apprentice Boys in 1689. Symbol above mural - 'First Ulster Defence Association', above Crown and date 1688;...
1988
Murals; Loyalist; Siege of Derry; UDA; UDF; LPA; UFF
Loyalist mural, Shankill Road, West Belfast, 1988. Mural represents 'Shutting the Gates of Derry' against Catholic forces by the Protestant Apprentice Boys in 1689. Text above mural - 'West Belfast UDA, C Company'; above image: 'First Ulster...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Censorship
Republican mural, Springhill Avenue/Springfield Road, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. Map of Ireland, with Sinn Féin symbol; 'Britain Ignores the Force of Argument Censored'; in 1988 the British Government banned British news organisations from...
1989
Murals; Republicans; Graffiti; IRA
Republican graffiti, Springhill Avenue, Ballymurphy, West Belfast, 1989. 'PIRA Fuck Mo.J C'Ville Celtic FC'. Provisional IRA; graffti against Maurice Johnson, Catholic who signed for Glasgow Rangers F.C., traditionally a Protestant club, after...
1989
Street Signs; Unionist; July 12th; Memorial
Unionist arch, Percy Place, Lower Shankill, West Belfast, 1989. Lower left and right, Northern Ireland and Scotland flags; upper left and right, Union Jack and Northern Irish flag; centre: Union Jack with image of King William at Battle of Boyne,...
1989
Murals; Loyalist; Red Hand Commando; UVF; Protestant Action Force; YCV
Loyalist mural, Frenchpark Street, South Belfast, 1989. Mural depicts Red Hand Commando (covername used by UVF) emblem; flanked left by emblem - shamrock topped by crown - of Young Citizens' Volunteers, the Youth wing of the UVF, and right, emblem...
1989
Murals; Loyalist; Red Hand Commando; UVF; Protestant Action Force; YCV
Loyalist mural, Frenchpark Street, South Belfast, 1989. Mural depicts Red Hand Commando (covername used by UVF) emblem; flanked left by emblem - shamrock topped by crown - of Young Citizens' Volunteers, the Youth wing of the UVF, and right, emblem...
1997
Murals; Republicans; United Irishmen; William Drennan
Republican mural, New Lodge Road, New Lodge, Belfast, 1997. Portrait of William Drennan, founding member, United Irishmen, Protestant political reformer in favour of Catholic Emancipation, educational reformer, co-founded Belfast Academical...
