Stuart Borthwick

3/4 Feb 1973 The New Lodge Massacre sees six killed in contested circumstances. A new inquest was ordered in 2021 but then not listed with its status unclear under the new legacy framework. This photo, New Lodge Belfast, July 2023

Today is the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Featured in this mural is Gerard Donaghy, a member of Fianna Éireann, the Provisional IRA’s youth wing, and the only republican killed. The Saville Inquiry said he had a nail bomb on him, which locals reject. This photo Bogside, Derry.

A thread of non-political stuff (kinda!). Starting with this great Fontaines DC piece in the Maiden City. This photo August 2025.

A photo thread of some of the new murals I captured in 2025, starting with the repainted new mural to INLA hunger striker Patsy O'Hara, in the Brandywell in Derry.

James McLean announced that he was returning to play for Derry City FC today after playing in the English Football League since 2011. This photo of his mural in Creggan, Derry, August 2025.

David Ervine was a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force in the 1970s, former prisoner, MLA for Belfast East from 1998 and leader of the Progressive Unionist Party from 2002 until his death on this day in 2007. This photo, Montrose Street, East Belfast, 2015.

A reworked mural originally painted in 2016 and repainted in 2025 to add Palestinian imagery to the original work that marked the anniversary of the Easter Rising. Andersonstown, West Belfast.

Anthony Cacace s a professional boxer from Northern Ireland. He has held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) super-featherweight title since 2022, and previously held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-featherweight titl . Andersonstown, Belfast.

More new UVF militarism, Shankill, West Belfast.

The latest version of the Stevie McKeag's memorial mural in the lower Shankill estate, West Belfast.

VE Day, Tigers Bay, North Belfast.

UDA 'A' Battalion, Village, South Belfast.

The replaced version of the long-standing UVF mural in Mount Vernon, North Belfast.

From left to right, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Constance Markievicz, James Connolly, Mairéad Farrell Bobby Sands and Máire Drumm. Beechmount, West Belfast.

UVF militarism in Sydenham, East Belfast.

John Hanna was a young UVF volunteer from the Donegall Road, South Belfast, who was killed by two IRA gunmen who broke into his home and shot him eight times before escaping and abandoning a getaway vehicle on the Falls Road. VIllage, South Belfast.

A mural dedicated to those killed on Bloody Sunday on 30 January 2025. Featured is Gerard Donaghy, a member of Fianna Éireann, the Provisional IRA’s youth wing, and the only republican killed. Saville said he had a nail bomb on him, which locals reject. Bogside, Derry.

A mural painting of Nell McCafferty, journalist and feminist campaigner whose columns in the Irish Times chronicled civil rights struggles and women’s issues. Bogside, Derry.

A memorial mural in Galliagh, Derry to Caitlin McLaughlin, who died after taking an Ecstasy tablet on what would have been her 17th birthday.

A mural that many see as triumphalist celebration of 'the Greysteel massacre', where the UDA opened fire on civilians in a bar on Halloween 1993, killing eight and wounding nineteen. The attack was in revenge for the Shankill bomb. This photo Waterside, Londonderry.

Cecil McKnight was a 32-year old UDA commander who was shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his home on the Waterside on 29 June 1991. The IRA claimed it was because he had been behind the killing of Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton. This photo Waterside, Londonderry.

Derry's James McLean currently plays for AFC Wrexham, a Welsh club who play in the English Football Championship. This photo Creggan, Derry.

George McBrearty was an IRA volunteer from Derry's Creggan, killed by SAS on May 28, 1981, alongside Charles "Pop" Maguire during an ambush a week after Patsy O'Hara's hunger strike death. This photo Creggan August 2025. Photo Brandywell, Derry.

A photo thread of some of the new murals I captured in 2025, starting with the repainted new mural to INLA hunger striker Patsy O'Hara, in the Brandywell in Derry.

This was installed in the days after. Memorial murals such as those to McKeag are almost always untouched even when their former colleagues are exiled from the area. (5 of 5)

In this one you can see the wall stripped back and the remainder of an Adair-era tribute to 'Loyalist Martyr' (top in yellow) 'King Rat' (bottom, Billy Wright). This photo 2024. (4 of 5)

Although Johnny Adair and the majority of C-Coy were eventually expelled from the UDA and exiled after numerous feuds, imagery memorialising McKeag has been allowed to remain in the lower Shankill estate. (3 of 5)

Stevie McKeag was the UDA C-Coy’s leading gunman of the 1990s with several killings attributed to him. He died of a suspected drug overdose in 2000 (2 of 5)

Here's four different versions of the Stevie McKeag mural in the Lower Shankill and a capture of the wall in transition. This version 2011 (thread, 1 of 5)