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Life in Belfast as represented on its walls – Murals, Graffiti, Street Art

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Respect, Heritage, Culture

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This year – 2021 – is the centenary of the creation of Northern Ireland and the year in which Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers won their 55th league title. Support for the club is widespread among the PUL community in…

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Belfast, Belfast - north, CNR, mural, soccer, Ulster Banner

Tyred Of Your Culture

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There’s one month to go before 11th night bonfires (and parades on the 12th) and collection of pallets is well under way in loyalist areas. TLO (web) is back this year protesting the use of tyres on bonfires, with King…

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Belfast, City Centre, King Billy, poster/paste-up

Culture Is A Disease

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Reflections on culture from (probably) TLO in the form of a statue with the eyes sprayed blue and red (Culture?) and from ANCO (Culture is a disease). Click and click again to enlarge (to 1900 x 3014) Copyright © 2017 Extramural Activity Camera…

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Belfast, City Centre, poster/paste-up

Culture Amid Commerce

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“The Belfast Scottish Association was founded in 1888 and headed by prominent businessmen, including Sir George Clark of Workman Clark and Andrew Gibson (pictured) whose Robert Burns collection is now housed in the Linenhall Library.” This is the final entry…

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Belfast, Belfast - north, board, PUL

Culture Night Belfast

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Pay the £5 “door tax” and you can attend the Fernhill Flute Band’s “Full night of loyalist culture” including “Blood And Thunder, Melody, DJ, disco, ballots, prizes, and more”. (We’ll start posting images from that other culture night — #CNB16…

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Belfast, Belfast - north, graffiti/writing, poster/paste-up, PUL, UDA/UFF/UYM

Culture Threatens No One

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Three bandsmen – the first two of which, at least, are members of the UVF Regimental Flute Band, one in a vintage and another in a modern uniform – parade together in a new mural in Pitt Park. The UVF Regimental will be going…

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Belfast, Belfast - east, board, breaks frame, PUL

Culture Blight

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In parody of “culture night”, self-proclaimed “culture blight” on North Street by members of TMN crew – RASE(R) Reckone, Colleen, Rosebud. Click and click again to enlarge (to full size) Copyright © 2016 Extramural Activity Camera Settings: f, 1/, ISO ,…

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Belfast, City Centre, mural

Spray-On Culture

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Spray painting is an approved type of youth activity in this Glenfield/Castlemara community mural on a low wall on Oakfield Drive. You can see the ‘coat of arms’ (from the wide shot, below) of the Glenfield Community Association more clearly via their…

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Carrickfergus, mural, PUL

Everyone’s An Artist On Culture Night

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In Belfast, we like to get our kids started early with drawing in the street – see the gallery of images from Jacqueline Wylie’s CNB14 Rainbow Crossing – and one of them even took to the wall in North Street. Click…

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Belfast, City Centre

Culture Before Cash

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Materials intended for an Eleventh Night bonfire in Rathcoole were set alight early on Tuesday morning (0200 May 13th, 2014, according to Proud To Be A Protestant – Banter) and still smoldered in the morning. Nolan’s radio show last week had a segment on…

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graffiti/writing, Newtownabbey, PUL
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Some of the most familiar murals are listed together just below 'For Beginners'.

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For Beginners

See our Visual Histories of the Jackson murals, Free Derry Corner, The International Wall, Northumberland Street, Iron Maiden's Eddie The Trooper, Walter Paget's The Birth Of The Irish Republic, and more. If your curiosity still needs satiating, there is also a multi-part history of muraling.

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“Peace” Lines
Interfaces Map
“Wall Disease” (New Yorker article)

MURALS
Peter Moloney Collection
Tony Crowley Collection (at CCDL)
Alain Miossec – Murals Irelande du Nord
Jonathan McCormick (at CAIN) (1996-2006)
Bill Rolston’s web page
Mo chara Kelly Documentary | GFA Youtube
Devenny/Ervine Documentary
BBC Arts introduction to murals, with Bill Rolston
The ISIS (magazine) documentary
Belfast Wall Murals Flickr Photo Pool
BBC Radio 4 programme (2013-10)
Belfast Telegraph article on the changing face of murals

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