Three images of Home Rule vintage are resurrected on Village lamp-posts to fit the situation of the current moment:
“The red hand and the winning hand” is an anti-Home Rule postcard (NMNI) featuring Craig, Bonar Law, Wallace, and Carson as the four aces, in addition to the red hand itself as joker or wild card. Carson and Craig need no introduction; Andrew Bonar Law was the leader of the (opposition) Conservative Party at the time of the third Home Rule bill (WP), while Colonel Robert Hugh Wallace was grand master of the Belfast Orange Order and as such the main organiser of protests against the bill (DIB).
“It’s our flag – fight for it, work for it” is an Australian recruitment poster from WWI (NMNI).
“Against home rule – hand up!” shows a nine-county Ulster, including Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan (and “Derry”) with the red hand emanating from Tyrone, the Red Hand County, symbol of the O’Neills (WP).
For the Northern Ireland coat of arms, see The Lion And The Elk and (much on a much earlier mural in the Shankill) Quis Separabit.
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