“Ourma says if you stick t’herown diet of landandairy prod you’ll be firmanna an’trim down” – a saying in which the names of all six Northern Irish counties are (phonetically) included. Above it are a variety of vintage advertisements from the late 1800s and early 1900s: Mew’s brewery (Isle of Wight), Lloyd & Yorath’s stout (Newport, Wales), Hall’s paints (Hull), Batey’s ginger beer (London), Campbell & Menzies’s shipments of Oporto wines, Gilbey’s wines, Gold Flake tobacco (in both English and Irish: Sásuíonn sıad!).
For images of the piece being produced (and in its original location), see Ciaran Gallagher’s web site. For the pieces just visible below, see Conflict Tourism and Game Of Throats.
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X04131 Alderman James McKinney, high sheriff of Belfast in 1930 gerry fitt
