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A Directory of Murals - Album 46
by Dr Jonathan McCormick

Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1577
Location:
Blythe Street/Sandy Row, Belfast
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
King William III crossing the Boyne, the UYM crest and flags of the United Kingdom. This replaces mural No.112 Album 4.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1578
Location:
Blythe Street/Sandy Row, Belfast
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of muralClose-up of the repainted mural showing King William III crossing the Boyne atop his white horse. "King William III Prince of Orange 1690 - 1990. Battle of the Boyne July 1690". This mural is flanked by two soldiers in period dress.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1579
Location:
Blythe Street/Sandy Row, Belfast
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"This We Will Maintain" showing four shields showing the Saltire, the cross of St George, the Ulster flag and the Union Jack. The shields have been made to look three dimensional by the addition of black shadowing.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1580
Location:
Linfield Street, Sandy Row, Belfast
Type:
Not Applicable
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Not Applicable
Description:
Graffiti "IRISH REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE. Vote Tom Ekin X". Tom Ekin is the Alliance party councillor for the Balmoral district of Belfast. Replaces No.575 -579 Album 17.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1581
Location:
Bond Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Not Applicable
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Not Applicable
Description:
Graffiti "Free Wee Mo!" relating to the BBC soap opera Eastenders character Maureen "Little Mo" Mitchell (formerly Slater) who was jailed (and served 8 months) for hitting husband Trevor with an iron.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1582
Location:
Friendly Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Nationalist / Republican
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"The Celtic Football Club 1888" crest on a tricolour background.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1583
Location:
Friendly Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Nationalist / Republican
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"Oh Baby Let the Freebird Fly". Text panel beside the Celtic mural No.1582 sung as an additional line in the Fields of Athenry after the line "Where once we watched the small free birds fly".


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1584
Location:
Friendly Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Nationalist / Republican
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
Mural showing the Celtic Football club logo and the logo of the Football Association of Ireland. Two crossed flags fly above the banner "Albain Agus Eire".


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1585
Location:
Friendly Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Nationalist / Republican
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of muralMural showing three republican volunteers (two males and one female) armed with a rifle and an RPG 7 launcher (similar to No.1383 Album 40). Seven portraits are shown at the base of the mural, which is surrounded by a celtic design. The seven men are (from left to right); (some details from Sutton) Tony "Hooky" Nolan was an IRA volunteer from the Belfast 3rd battalion who died on "active service" 8th December 1971. Joseph Downey, a 23-year-old IRA man was shot and killed on Cromac Street in the Markets by the British Army from observation posts in the gas works on Bloody Friday 21st July 1972 during a gun battle. Paul Marlowe (31), Francis Fitzsimmons (28) and Joseph Surgenor (23) were part of an IRA team who died in premature bomb explosion at Belfast Gas Works, Ormeau Road on 16th October 1976. Jim Templeton, a 15-year-old member of the IRA's Youth section was shot by loyalists from a passing car, while standing outside the Rose and Crown Bar, Ormeau Road on 29 August 1975. Brendan Davison was a 33-year-old IRA volunteer shot by the UVF in Friendly Street in 1988. Replaces No.1219 Album 36.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1586
Location:
Stewart Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Nationalist / Republican
Year:
December 2002
Status:
No Longer exists
Description:
"End the Siege of Short Strand" with barbed wire surround.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1587
Location:
Stewart Street, The Markets, Belfast
Type:
Not Applicable
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Not Applicable
Description:
"RUC. PSNI SCUM. PSNI Woman Beaters" with barbed wire borders. Adjacent to No.1586. See identical graffiti in loyalist area No.1595.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1588
Location:
Lochinver Drive, Tullycarnet, Belfast
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"Tullycarnet Y.M. "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" with two masked loyalists armed with AK-47 assault rifles. The UYM crest is shown against a maroon background.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1589
Location:
Morven Park, Ballybeen, Dundonald, Co. Down
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of mural"Where so ever, how so ever or whenever we are called upon to make our exit, we shall do so as proud men". Black and white mural showing a Red Hand Commando crest with a hand, wings and six-pointed star. A loyalist gunman is shown, in the same style as seen in No.1393 Album 40. Small crests are shown representing the RHC Youth, PAF, UVF and YCV.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1590
Location:
Morven Park, Ballybeen, Dundonald, Co. Down
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"Ballybeen Youth 'C' Company" with the gold crest of the RHC Youth set against a blue background. Smaller crests of the RHC and RHC Youth are shown "Lamh Dearg Abu". Scrolls name the six counties "Down, Antrim, Fermanagh, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone".


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1591
Location:
Craigleith Drive, Ballybeen, Dundonald, Co. Down
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Deteriorated/Faded
Description:
"UFF 3rd Batt" with silhouettes of Scrabo Tower and the crane at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1592
Location:
Ballybeen Square, Ballybeen, Dundonald, Co. Down
Type:
Non-Aligned
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of mural"Jesus loves Ballybeen" with a scene overlooking the Ballybeen estate surrounded by rolling farmland and hills. Scrabo Tower can be seen in the background.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1593
Location:
Ballybeen Square, Ballybeen, Dundonald, Co. Down
Type:
Non-Aligned
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
Murals of the Simpsons on shop shutters. From left to right; Homer, Maggie, Bart and Montgomery Burns.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1594
Location:
Wolff Close, Pitt Park, Lower Newtownards Road, Ballymacarret, Belfast
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"Ulster Volunteer Force" in black and white with the UVF crest and YCV emblem.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1595
Location:
Albertbridge Road, Belfast
Type:
Not Applicable
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Not Applicable
Description:
Graffiti "PSNI SCUM. PSNI Women Beaters". Graffiti identical to mural in the nationalist Markets area. See No.1587.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1596
Location:
Shore Road, Belfast
Type:
Not Applicable
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Not Applicable
Description:
Graffiti "Fuck Johnny Adair". Part of a co-ordinated graffiti campaign throughout North Belfast, Jordanstown and Carrickfergus by South East Antrim UFF. See No.1597 and No.1624, No.1625 No.1627 and No.1628 Album 47.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1597
Location:
Shore Road, Belfast
Type:
Not Applicable
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Not Applicable
Description:
Graffiti "Fuck Johnny Adair. South East Antrim UFF. No Surrender". See No.1596 and No.1624, No.1625 No.1627 and No.1628 Album 47.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1598
Location:
Queen's Avenue, Glengormley, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"They Live With Us in Memory Still, Not Just Today But Always Will". Two bowed loyalists with lowered UDA and UFF flags beside a memorial stone "S.E.A. Glengormley". "UFF 2nd Batt 'A' Coy". Small crests of the UFF, UDA and UYM. "Vol A Helm, Vol J Woods, Vol T. McDonald, Co G Evans, Vol W Gordan". From Sutton, Gerald Evans was a 43-year-old Protestant Shot dead by the INLA at his shop in the Northcott Shopping Centre, Ballyclare Road, Glengormley on 27th April 1994.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1599
Location:
Milewater Drive, New Mossley estate, Newtownabbey , Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"My forefathers were the men who followed Cromwell and who shared in the defence of Derry, and in the Victories of Aughrim and the Boyne". From Pioneers to presidents mural from the Ulster Scots Society with a portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt and the Apprentice Boys of Derry shutting the gates to the city walls.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1600
Location:
Milewater Drive, New Mossley estate, Newtownabbey , Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of muralSepia style portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President 1901 - 1904 from No.1599.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1601
Location:
Milewater Drive, New Mossley estate, Newtownabbey , Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
Close-up of the Apprentice Boys of Derry shutting the gates painted in a sepia style from No.1599.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1602
Location:
Milewater Drive, New Mossley estate, Newtownabbey , Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"An Officer leads his Troops Over the Top as Shells Burst Around them". WWI soldiers run along a trench and over the top into battle. The scene is surrounded by two banks of poppies "For God and Ulster".


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1603
Location:
Milewater Drive, New Mossley estate, Newtownabbey , Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of muralClose-up of the Trench scene from No.1602.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1604
Location:
Ballyearl Drive, New Mossley Estate, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"Second to None. New Mossley 3rd Batt." Mural of three masked loyalists and the UVF and YCV crests against a yellow background.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1605
Location:
Ballyearl Drive, New Mossley Estate, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
thumbnail photo of muralClose-up of three masked UVF volunteers bursting into a house armed with pistols and an AK-47 assault rifle.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1606
Location:
Devenish Drive, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
Completed mural of the Sir Edward Carson statue that stands outside Parliament Buildings, Stormont. WWI soldiers march past in silhouette. "In Memory of Volunteers. Liverpool No.4 Batt. John Webster. Lee Irwin." UVF and YCV crests shown. Earlier work in progress recorded in No.1456 Album 42 and No.1503 Album 43. See also No.1042 Album 31 mentioning the two UVF volunteers from Liverpool from the same mural location, but note the earlier mural records the name as "Vol John Webber" not Webster.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1607
Location:
West Street, Ballycarry, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
No Longer exists
Description:
"Remember William Prince of Orange 1690" showing King William III atop a white horse. A mural for the "Ballycarry Flute Band is also shown. With thanks to N. Haldane.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1608
Location:
West Street, Ballycarry, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
No Longer exists
Description:
thumbnail photo of muralClose-up of the King William III mural No.1607. Small print round the base of the painting reads "This Mural was painted by Bro P.C. MacDonnell LOL 968 July 1987".


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1609
Location:
West Street, Ballycarry, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
No Longer exists
Description:
"Ballycarry Flute Band" showing the red Hand and the Crown with two Union Jacks, the English and Ulster flags. "Ulster". Two additional red hands are fixed to either side of the mural.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1610
Location:
West Street, Ballycarry, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
No Longer exists
Description:
"UDA Ballycarry" with two UDA flags.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1611
Location:
Antiville Estate, Larne, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
Still exists at location
Description:
"Nothing Great and Durable can be Created without the Presence of an Elite. UFF" with the UDA and UYM crests. Replaces No.1175 Album 35.


Album Number:
46
Mural Number:
1612
Location:
Antiville Estate, Larne, Co. Antrim
Type:
Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
December 2002
Status:
No Longer exists
Description:
"S.E.A. UFF 3rd Batt" in black and white with a masked loyalist gunman. Replaces No.1177 Album 35.

 


Description of Album Layout
Album Number:
Album number in Jonathan McCormick's personal photograph albums
Mural Number:
Photograph number in Jonathan McCormick's personal albums
Location:
Address where mural is located
Type:
  • Unionist / Loyalist
  • Nationalist / Republican
  • Other / non-aligned
  • not applicable
Year:
Year and month during which mural was visited and photographed
Status:
  • still exists at location:   mural conditon similar to when first photographed;
  • no longer exists:   mural painted over;
  • deteriorated:   mural has faded or is covered with graffiti;
  • not applicable:   photograph was not of a mural.
Description:
Basic description of the mural at the time of the photograph


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