Month: Aug 2016

Love Wins

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03716 2016-08-04 Caslin Kiss d+

Same-sex marriages took place for the first time in England, Wales, and Scotland in 2014 (and last month on the Isle of Man (BBC-NI)) but they remain illegal in Northern Ireland. Shown here are two images of Roscommon artist Joe Caslin’s massive paste-up in Hill Street, showing a Northern Ireland couple “Charlene & Sharon” (Tw) who went to the U.S. in order to marry, and a companion piece to his piece in George’s Street South in Dublin, showing two men. The parade of Belfast’s Pride festival takes place today.

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Take The Hint

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03695 2016-08-01 Take The Hint+

A deal to end the standoff at Twaddell Avenue, where an Orange Order parade was stopped in 2013, fell though a few days before the proposed July 1st march date (BelTel). The GARC (Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective) tarp shown above maps out an alternative route that would bypass the Ardoyne shops.

Replaces Putting The Boot In.

03696 2016-08-01 Take The Hint Map+

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Justice For Robert

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This small plaque is on Northumberland Way, on the ‘Dignity’ panel of the Amnesty mural and to the right of La Historia Es Nuestra. It is presumably a reference to the killing of Robert McCartney (WP) though by the time of this photograph, Jock Davison – whom the family believed had given the order for Robert’s stabbing – had already been shot dead (Bel Tel).

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HMS Hawke

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03700 2016-08-02 HMS Hawke+

HMS Hawke was a Royal navy WWI cruiser sunk by German U-boat on October 1st, 1914. It was a training ship, which meant that among the 542 sailors who lost their lives on the Hawke, 75 of them were 16 year-old boys.

Five of the deceased were from the Donegall Road area. This is the first mural in south Belfast’s “Poppy Trail”; in addition to the Hawke, there will be a board for each year of the first world war, and perhaps others for WWII, on the streets off Donegall Road, from Barrington Gardens westward across into the Village.

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Deadbone Lizard

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03572 2016-06-27 TMN Bodé d+

The Bodé character ‘Deadbone Lizard’ takes the central place in a piece by the TMN crew called “The Fire Rises”, with writing by ANCO and CASP.

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Tír Na nÓg

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03631 2016-07-05 Tir na nOg+

In the myths of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Fıan Oısín falls in love with Nıamh from the Land Of Youth, but after three years — which is 300 human years — he yearns to return to Ireland. She gives him a magic horse that will preserve his youth while he remains on it. But he falls from it and dies of old age.

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Civil Rights

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03663 2016-07-08 Civil Rights d+

The Bogside Artists’ Civil Rights mural in Rossville Street, Derry/Doıre, which was originally painted in 2004, was repainted (in October 2015) and the portraits of Ivan Cooper and John Hume added. For video of the launch, see the Bogside Artists’ website. See also the Visual History page on the Bogside Artists.

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