Our Wee Country

2012-12-25 OurWeeCountry+

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

2012-12-23 TowerStDetail+

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

2012-12-26 MtVernonWide+

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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Madden’s

2012-12-24 MaddensWide+

Fiddler Art Lundy is depicted in the mural on the side of Maddens bar in Berry St, just below Castle Court. Note the ‘decommissioned’ ashtray!

The fiddler is Art Lundy – the original photograph is by Frankie Quinn (web).

Front door and mural detail below.

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The Masses

2012-12-23 GoingToMass+

A pensioner on the way to St. Matthew’s in Bryson Street on the morning of Sunday, December 23rd, 2012.

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