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Stevie McKeag

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“In loving memory of military commander Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag – sleeping where no shadows fall. Born 1970, died 2000.” McKeag’s portrait (now a head-and-shoulders shot rather than just the face – see M03803) is on a board at the centre of a mural of flags – UFF, Ulster Banner, St Andrew’s Saltire, and UDA .

A previous McKeag mural (on Shankill Parade) had been re-imaged in 2004 (into a Cuchulainn mural). This one was painted in 2006 across the green in Hopewell Crescent.

Lower Shankill, west Belfast.

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Freedom 2000

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This lower Shankill mural commemorates prisoners kept in Long Kesh and the H-Blocks during the Troubles (and prior to the Agreement).

Previously, the left flank bore the letters UDA and the right flank UFF, with LPOW at the bottom of each.

Hopewell Crescent, lower Shankill, west Belfast

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C-18

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“Kill all taigs [Catholics]”. C-18 is ‘Combat 18’, a neo-Nazi movement in the UK, hence the swastika.

Glenvale Street, west Belfast.

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UFF–UYM

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These are images of three sides of the electrical sub-station beside Boundary Way (at the bottom of the lower Shankill estate) – the fourth side is up against the hoarding around the construction site. Divis tower is the distance.

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Great Ape

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Spotted in the lower Shankill estate: a gaping gorilla dressed in Orange Order collarette carrying a Union flag.

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Somme 1916

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Soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) Division go over the top at the battle of the Somme on July 1st, 1916. Glenvale Park, Glynn.

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Young Guns

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Sixteen year-old Glen “Spacer” Branagh was killed by a premature blast bomb during a riot on Remembrance Sunday, 2001. His portrait is on a board at the centre of UDA flags and guns (and the tigers of Tiger’s Bay (which would make it “Tigers’ Bay”).

“If the Provos and the pan nationalist front and the British and Irish governments keep trying to succeed in a united Ireland then they may prepare themselves for another 30 bloody years for the battle will have just begun.”

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Union Flag

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Union flag and red, white, and blue bollards in Ritchie Street, north Belfast.

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Robert Dougan

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South Belfast UDA commander Robert Dougan killed by the IRA on February 10th, 1998 while sitting in a car outside Balmoral Textiles in Dunmurry, two months before the Good Friday Agreement was signed. “Murdered by the enemies 10th Feburary [sic] 1998. In memory of our fallen comrade – gone but not forgotten. Quis separabit.”

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A New Look For Us

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This is the scene at the junction of Wellwood Street and Sandy Row. On the northern side, a sofa and pallets have been dumped against the remaining half of the UVF mural (see C01427 for the whole thing), while on the southern side, the hoardings on the corner have been covered in UFF flags and “Kill all taigs” graffiti. The site behind them would remain vacant until 2014.

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