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A Directory of Murals - Album 53
by Dr Jonathan McCormick

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1826
Location:
 Malfin Drive, Taughmonagh, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Ulster Freedom Fighters 'C' Batt South Belfast" In Everlasting Memory of Brian "Morty" Morton. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him". With a large UFF crest and a salute from four masked loyalist gunmen. From Sutton: Brian Morton was a 28 year old UDA man who died in a premature bomb explosion on the River Lagan Towpath by Seymour Hill, Dunmurry on 7/7/97.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1827
Location:
 Short Strand, Belfast
Type:
 Not Applicable
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Not Applicable
Description:
 Amended SDLP election poster for the cancelled election to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Across the image of Mark Durkan is sprayed "PSNI" and under the SDLP election slogan "Leadership you can Trust" is graffiti reading "Supporting Collusion" relating to the SDLP's participation on Policing Boards.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1828
Location:
 Harkness Parade, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Ulster Volunteer Force East Belfast Regiment". Improved shot of No.259 and No.275 Album 8 prior to demolition of the area.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1829
Location:
 Mersey Street, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 Improved shot of King William III crossing the Boyne prior to demolition of the area. See No.86 Album 3.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1830
Location:
 Redcliffe Parade/ Mersey Street, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 Improved shot UVF mural showing WWI and modern day UVF volunteers and armed women beside a Union Jack in 1914 "Deserted, Well I Can Stand Alone" prior to demolition of the area. See No.90 Album 3.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1831
Location:
 Bawnmore Park, Bawnmore, Belfast
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 Anti-Orangeman symbol and Lily nailed to a telegraph pole.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1832
Location:
 Bawnmore Park, Bawnmore, Belfast
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 thumbnail photo of mural "Republican Bawnmore" with four armed and masked republicans against a colourful background of flames and the starry plough. The border is a celtic design incorporating the four crests of the four provinces of Ireland and the tricolour.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1833
Location:
 Bawnmore Park, Bawnmore, Belfast
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Brits Out" red text against a green background next to the "Republican Bawnmore" mural No.1832.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1834
Location:
 Carmeen Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Red Hand Commando" with the RHC crest, the Union Jack and the Ulster flag.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1835
Location:
 Inishcarn Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 "Comradeship, Unity and Discipline. Lest We Forget". UVF memorial mural painted in the orange and purple colours of the organisation. The UVF, YCV and RHC emblems are at the top "1912". Two WWI UVF soldiers rest on their rifles beside a memorial stone "All Gave Some, Some Gave All". A black scroll is to the right of the main mural. The scrolls list hundreds of men, and there are six colour portraits. From Sutton, they are "North Belfast J. Shaw" (a 22 year old UVF volunteer shot by the UDA during a fracas in the North Star Bar, North Queen Street, Belfast during a UDA/UVF feud on 18/5/74), "East Antrim T. Mawhinney", "East Belfast J. Cordner" (a 23 year old UVF volunteer killed in a premature explosion while carrying a bomb along Exchange Street, off Corporation Street, Belfast on 27/2/77), "West Belfast C. Logan" (a 26 year old UVF volunteer killed in a premature bomb explosion at a farmhouse, Desertmartin, Co. Londonderry on 18/11/73), "Red Hand Commando S. McCrea" (a 36 year old ex-UVF man and former Loyalist prisoner. Died two days after being shot during gun attack on the Orange Cross Social Club, Craven Street, Shankill, Belfast on 18/2/89. See also No.380 Album 11, No.543 Album 16 and No.1419 Album 41 and "South Belfast W. Millar" (a 26 year old UVF volunteer shot by the RUC while travelling in stolen car, Elmwood Avenue, off University Road, Belfast on 16/3/83. See also No.150 Album 5).

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1836
Location:
 Inishcarn Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 Close-up of the main mural No.1835.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1837
Location:
 Inishcarn Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Rathcoole YCV. For God and Ulster" with a large YCV crest against a black background. The PAF and UVF emblems are also shown.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1838
Location:
 Inishcarn Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 thumbnail photo of mural "The charge of the 36th Ulster Division at Thiepval 1st July 1916. By the end of the battle, five thousand five hundred Ulstermen lay dead. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them". Soldiers are seen leaving their trenches and going over the top into battle. The crest of the 36th Ulster Division is shown with the names of the battles fought on scrolls "Somme, Ypres, Arras, Thiepval, St. Quentin, Grand Court, Messines, Fricourt". Four furled Union Jacks frame the picture.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1839
Location:
 Inishcarn Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Not Applicable
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Not Applicable
Description:
 UDA mural painters on the scaffolding whitewash a wall in preparation for a new mural.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1840
Location:
 Inishcarn Drive, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Not Applicable
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Not Applicable
Description:
 UDA mural painters on the scaffolding whitewash a wall in preparation for a new mural.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1841
Location:
 Glenbane Avenue, Rathcoole, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Ulster Volunteer Force The Peoples Army" in white lettering against a black background. A burnt out JCB digger sits beside the mural.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1842
Location:
 Cloyne Crescent, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Ulster Volunteer Force Young Citizen Volunteers" with a memorial topped with the UVF crest. Replaces No 1034 - 1038 Album 31.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1843
Location:
 Cloyne Crescent, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 thumbnail photo of mural "UVF. YCV. The Peoples Army" with two UVF crests and a red hand flanked by UVF flags.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1844
Location:
 Greyabbey Gardens, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "LPA. UYM" with the respective emblems of the red hand wrapped in barbed wire and a clenched red fist.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1845
Location:
 Greyabbey Gardens, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Loyalist Monkstown. UFF. UDA" with red, white and blue poles painted above a series of garages and a UFF emblem (see No.1846).

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1846
Location:
 Greyabbey Gardens, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "UFF Monkstown" with the clenched red fist emblem of the UFF.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1847
Location:
 Finner Walk, Monkstown, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Ulster 1690 - 1990. 300th year" with the shield of Ulster flanked by the Union Jack and the St. Andrews flag.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1848
Location:
 Queen's Crescent, Glengormley, Belfast
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "1st East Antrim Batt. Glengormley" with a large UVF crest set against a yellow background flanked by two armed UVF gunmen.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1849
Location:
 Hollowburn Road, Ballycraigy estate, Antrim, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 "1688 1988. In Defence of the Protestant faith. Closing the Gates" showing the Apprentice Boys of Derry closing the gates of the city.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1850
Location:
 Woodgreen/Limetree Avenue, Ballycraigy estate, Antrim, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 thumbnail photo of mural "Loyalist Volunteer Force. Lead the Way. Ulster".

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1851
Location:
 Woodgreen/Limetree Avenue, Ballycraigy estate, Antrim, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "LVF III Batt" with a large red hand against a blue background.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1852
Location:
 Craighill, Ballycraigy estate, Antrim, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 LVF memorial gravestone listing "Billy Wright 27/12/97, Aidrian Porter 14/3/01, Mark Fulton 10/6/02, Stephen Warnock 13/9/02. In Loving Memory of Our Volunteers". A wreath of flowers has been placed above the gravestone and two crosses flank this reading "We shall Remember them". (Sunrise background added later.)

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1853
Location:
 A6, near Ballycraigy estate, Antrim, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Unionist / Loyalist
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 "Lead the Way. LVF III Batt Antrim" with a masked LVF gunman against a sunset background.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1854
Location:
 Halliday's Road, Tiger's Bay, Belfast
Type:
 Non-Aligned
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 Tins of paint sit on the pavement beside the mural of a dragon representing capitalism. This photograph was taken during the painting of new multi-panelled community mural at the Limestone Road/Halliday's Road junction instigated by Groundwork UK through Duncairn Community Centre and painted by artist Colin Leppington.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1855
Location:
 Halliday's Road, Tiger's Bay, Belfast
Type:
 Non-Aligned
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 Second view of paint tins beside the mural. With thanks to Colin Leppington. This mural replaces No.1446 Album 42.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1856
Location:
 Toome, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable - John F. Kennedy" beneath an old anti-RUC symbol. Replaces No.1081 Album 32.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1857
Location:
 Toome, Co. Antrim
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 thumbnail photo of mural "When those who make the law, break the law, in the name of the law, there is no law - PSNI Special Branch" beneath an old anti-RUC symbol. Replaces No.1082 Album 32.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1858
Location:
 Reverse of Free Derry Corner, Rossville Street, Bogside, Derry
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 No Longer exists
Description:
 "1968 - 2003. Nothing Has Changed. We Demand our Rights".

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1859
Location:
 Amcomri Street/ Beechmount Avenue, Falls, Belfast
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 Republican mural showing crossed rifles, a pike and pistol with the gloves and beret of a republican volunteer. A phoenix is shown flanked by lilies. The central portrait is of Stan Carberry with fourteen other portraits. From Sutton they are "Vol Tom McGoldric", "Vol Frankie Dodds", "Vol Sean (Sta) Bailey" (a 20 year old IRA volunteer who died one day after being injured in a premature bomb explosion in a house in Nansen Street, Falls, Belfast on 13/2/76), "Vol Tony Campbell" (a 19 year old IRA volunteer shot by a British Army sniper at the junction of Edlingham Street and the New Lodge Road on 3/2/73), "Ken Smith", "Robin Dunwoody", "Joe (Bingo) Campbell", "Vol Albert Kavanagh" (an 18 year old IRA volunteer shot by the RUC during an attempted bomb attack on a factory on Boucher Road, Belfast on 4/3/72), "Vol Paul Marlowe" (a 31 year old IRA volunteer who died in premature bomb explosion at Belfast Gas Works, Ormeau Road, Belfast on 16/10/76. See No 1585 Album 46, "Vol Paul (Basil) Fox" (a 20 year old IRA volunteer killed in a premature bomb explosion whilst in a car at a car park in King Street, Belfast on 1/12/75), "Pat McGeown" (Sinn Féin councillor who died in 1996. See No.528 Album 16), " J. Montgomery", "Gretta Reel" and "Kathleen Campbell".

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1860
Location:
 Amcomri Street/ Beechmount Avenue, Falls, Belfast
Type:
 Nationalist / Republican
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Still exists at location
Description:
 thumbnail photo of mural Close-up of the republican imagery of No.1859 and the portrait of Stan Carberry. From Sutton, he was a 34 year old IRA volunteer shot by the British Army while travelling in a car along La Salle Drive, Falls, Belfast on 13/11/72.

Album Number:
 53
Mural Number:
 1861
Location:
 Amcomri Street/ Beechmount Avenue, Falls, Belfast
Type:
 Not Applicable
Year:
 June 2003
Status:
 Not Applicable
Description:
 Plaque accompanying No.1859. "Erected by Coiste Cuimhneachráin ard na bhfeá 2003. This mural is dedicated to the volunteers of 'A' Company 2nd Batt Belfast Brigade Óglaigh na h-Éireann, to the Sinn Féin members mid Falls Cumann who militarily and politically gave their all for a 32 county social democratic republic. Their names have been spoken off among their friends and comrades throughout the years. Now everyone can see the faces and not just hear the names of ordinary people with extra-ordinary lives. Ar dheis dé go raibh a n-anamacha".

 


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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