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The Long Hard March To Allied Victory

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“”From here started the long hard march to allied victory” Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Opposite this point was the gathering area for a massive convoy of mixed ships which sailed to arrive at the beaches of Normandy on D-Day 6th. June 1944.”” US naval vessels gathered in Belfast Lough and Commander Thomas Keane (photo) was residing at the Royal hotel in Bangor (WartimeNI). General Eisenhower inspected the USS Quincy at Bangor on 19th May, 1944, (WartimeNI). Bangor’s North Pier was renamed Eisenhower Pier in 2004.

The quote is from August, 1945, when Eisenhower received an honorary doctorate from Queen’s (WartimeNI).

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My God-Given Right To Rule

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“Honi soit qui mal y pense” is the motto of the Order Of The Garter. It appears together with “Dieu et mon droit” (“God and my right”) in the UK’s royal coat of arms (see e.g. United Kingdom). The former means, roughly, “Shame to he who thinks bad of it”, the “it” in this case being the English royals’ designs on France (in the 1300s) and in general the monarchy and its God-given right to rule.

The latest divinely-anointed monarch is Charles III, crowned on May 6th. He was preceded by Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years: “East Belfast would like to thank her majesty Queen Elizabeth II on devoting 70 years of service to our great nation. God save the Queen.”

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Preparations For The Twelfth, East Belfast 2023

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The Templemore Avenue area of east Belfast readies itself for the Twelfth: above, a few pallets are collected in Thistle Court, just across the Short Strand “peace” line; immediately below, bunting in Tower Street; finally, flags flying on the “understanding” mural in Lendrick Street.

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The Boys Are Back In Town

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Before rock band Thin Lizzy played the King’s Club at the Queen’s Court hotel in Bangor on July 27th, 1974 (Thin Lizzy Guide), they took to the water in order to take in the town. They were photographed in the act by Dublin photographer Liam Quigley (Indo profile), and the picture (see it at Thin Lizzy Guide) was turned into a mural by Friz (ig) in Crosby Street, Bangor, last year.

Original guitarist Eric Bell (who was also a member of Them) is featured in a mural of famous faces in east Belfast – see Inspiring Belfast.

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We’re From The Coole

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More Sons Of Kai/KAI flute band (ig) markings in Rathcoole, Newtownabbey. See previously The Famous and Welcome To Our Homeland.

Rathcoole Drive/Rathcoole Gardens

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Flegs £10, Bunting £15

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These are images from loyal Ballyclare of goods for sale in the shops along Main Street, including “flegs” and slates commemorative of the coronation of Charles III.

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Carrickfergus Celebrates

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About 100 people came out to Marine Gardens for the live broadcast of the coronation of Charles III on May 6th (Mid & East Antrim youtube), one of about nine such live-streams across Norther Ireland (Bel Tel).

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A Vision Of The Future

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Australian artist Fintan Magee (ig) in Ebrington Square, Londonderry, showing a young girl – a symbol of the next generation – (Bel Tel) behind obscure glass. To the right is a dove; the orca in the bottom right is Dopey Dick, who swam up the Foyle in 1977 (Fb).

Not In Sorrow But In Pride

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“In honour of the men and women from Ballyclare and surrounding areas who gave their life in war. ‘They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them’. Lest we forget.” With emblems of the Royal British Legion (left), Navy and Merchant Navy (right), and a separate stone for the UDR “When danger threatened, some made the supreme sacrifice”.

The main obelisk is dedicated “in the honoured memory of those men from Ballyclare & District who gave their lives for King and country in the Great War 1914-1918, 1939-1945. ‘Look not on this in sorrow but in pride and may ye live as nobly as they died.”

The remaining image shows the info board describing two aeroplane crashes around Big Collin Mountain, in which eleven airmen died while on training flights, one the result of an engine fire, the other crashed into the side of the mountain.

Ballyclare War Memorial Park, Ballyclare Road, Ballyclare. There are also separate murals in Erskine Park to the locals who died in WWI and in WWII.