Christmas decorations can still be found on poles around Belfast in late January. In some cases, as here, they are joined by Union flags.
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An Ulster Christmas
Union Flag
McCurrie & Neill
A banner and board reminding people of the deaths of Jimmy McCurrie and Bobby Neill, next to their memorial garden (in the right of the shot) on the Newtownards Road, with the cranes Samson and Goliath in the background. The two civilians died in the course of rioting and a gun battle around St. Matthew’s that was “the first major confrontation to occur in east Belfast during the troubles” (McKittrick et al., p. 50). It is not clear at what time each died. McKittrick (Lost Lives, ISBN 978-1840185041, amazon.co.uk, .com) gives the death of both as the 27th, and puts Neill’s death at 2 a.m. (and so strictly on the 28th??). Matt Baggott is the current Northern Ireland chief of police.
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X00900 Investigate these murders. Where is their justice? murdered 27/28th june 1970; still no truth, still no justice
Where Ulstermen Shop
Union flags and a full range of Covenant clothing are available from the Union Jack Souvenir Shop on the Lower Newtownards Road. See also: The Essentials.
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Westland British
Union Flag and territorial graffiti, Westland Road, north Belfast.
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Our Wee Country
Here is another mural celebrating the Northern Ireland football team with the slogan “our wee country” on the top part of a wall of the Times Bar in York Street.
George Best is on the left and (perhaps) David Healy on the right.
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Tower Street
A detail from a board in Tower Street (off the Lower Newtownards Road) featuring a young girl carrying a union flag – a famous photograph from VE Day, 1945. For the whole mural, see M04869.
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Mount Vernon Welcomes You
Loyalist boards showing a (UVF) hooded gunman and a tiger from the “Mount Vernon Volunteers” wearing a purple beret, on Ross House, the Mount Vernon tower block. On the upper floors are an Ulster Banner and Union Flags.
See also: Families Against Supergrass Trials.
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Behind Bars
A Union Flag in the window of a house on the Lower Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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Holiday Union
This house-front on the Shore Road is a mix of union flags and Christmas decorations. The centre-piece states that the resident is “Proud To Be British”.
The ASDA railings in the background were the site of the memorial to Billy Hunter.
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All Ireland Champions
Another union jack, this time on the Shore Road, next to a banner boasting that Crusaders (featured previously 1 | 2) are “All Ireland Champions 2012”, having won the Setanta cup (WP). “Setanta” is Cúchulainn’s original name; Setanta sports-television business based in Dublin (WP).
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X00785 welcome to seaview crusaders F.C. setanta sports cup winners home of owned by fans run by fans
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