This is a second piece of street art by Dan Kitchener (web) in Bank Square, next to his painting of fast cars (Fast Enough So We Can Fly Away?): a painting of Jesus Of Nazareth for Crown Jesus Ministeries (web).
Replaces JMK’s The Whisper And The Wish.
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Voters in the United States Of America went to the polls on November 5th (2024) to cast their ballots for a variety of positions, most prominently the offices of President and Vice President.
The new President is Donald Trump and the Vice President is JD Vance. This will be (starting in January, 2025) Trump’s second term as President and he is expected to be much more aggressive in pursuing his agenda than in his first term; priorities include reducing prices “on day one”, mass deportations, tarrifs, tax cuts, lowering or eliminating subsidies for health-care and electric vehicles, gutting federal departments (particularly the Department Of Education, which is seen as a haven of “DEI”), making America “healthy again” by changing vaccine recommendations, as well as granting pardons to (Trump) loyalists and using the Department Of Justice to pursue his enemies (Republican Party | Project 2025 (pdf) | CNN | CBS).
This Northern Irish supporter is showing his support with a variety of flags hung from a balcony on the (Northern Ireland) loyalist Shore Road in north Belfast.
Other “Trump” appearances in Belfast: Make Israel Great Again | Your Wall, Your Border
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The rosette at the centre of the poppy wreath shows the UK armed services badge (with the crown overlaid by the Ulster Banner) surrounded by a verse from Binyon’s ‘For The Fallen’ and “Tiger’s Bay – York Street – Sailortown loyal”. That group’s Facebook page is private and no home-page seems to be available for ‘North Belfast Friends Of The Somme’.
North Queen Street, Tiger’s Bay, Belfast, at the old Lewis Street.
The large cloth on the Shore Road was also seen last year.
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Perhaps this graffitist was interrupted in Ann Street (on the phone box, above) or decided to escalate their demands in Fountain Lane, below.
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Part of the most recent development of the upper streets in the Village was not to rebuild the two rows of houses on Ebor and Nubia/Moltke streets and in their place construct a park – the Village Green, and now officially the “Ruby Murray Village Green” – and playground. The board on the outside railings make the park a “community park of remembrance” for WWI, showing an Ulster Banner with a Union Flag in the canton. (Seen previously in The Village Green Preservation Society.)
There is also a memorial to “loved ones and friends”, “volunteers, defenders & civilians” of the South Belfast UVF (though there is 36th (Ulster) Division emblem in the corner!) who were “cruely taken away from us by republican scum”: Dinah Campbell, Francis Campbell, Alexander Scott, Frankie Smith, Stevie McCrea, John Hanna, Sammy Mehaffy, William Kingsberry, Jackie Campbell, David Poots.
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“Funny how everything was [roses] when we held on to the guns …” The line accompanying this half-Union-Flag in the alley between Ebor and Kilburn streets (in the Village, south Belfast) comes from the Guns N’ Roses song ‘Breakdown’ (youtube).
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The 1916 centenary mural in Andersonstown has been repurposed and repainted to express solidarity with the people of Palestine.
From the frame of the previous mural – see The Undauntable Thought – the title, phoenix, and chains have been preserved but two instances of the inverted red triangle have been added at the top and bottom – see Resist! (and My Kite You Made).
The main panel puts the struggles in Palestine and Northern Ireland in parallel, showing (from top to bottom on each side) political prisoners, violence against protesters, and relatives carrying portraits.
On the left, Palestinian prisoners languish in Israeli jails (based on a photo of Hamza Abu Halima and on this Reuters photograph of prisoners sitting in the street, both from December 2023) and IDF soldiers make violent arrests – the one on the left is from 2016 (CCUN) and the one on the right is perhaps based on this Reuters photograph.
On the right: British soldiers restore order after the Burning Of Long Kesh (see Operation Pagoda), next to blanket-man Hugh Rooney, above three arrests made by British Army soldiers – their caps indicates that they are from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (left) and the Paratroop regiment (centre). (For two of the original photos, see BBC | Getty.)
Along the bottom of both sides, marchers hold portraits of the dead, including the recently-killed leader of Hamas Yahya Sinwar (BBC).
Also visible in the wide shot is Ag Fíorú Na Poblachta.
Launched on November 10th, 2024 (PD Fb). An Neasc Theas, Baıle Mhıc Aındréıs, Béal Feırste thıar (South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast)
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“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” “Stop the genocide – save Palestine.”
The South Link green-space as been renamed “Gaza Square” (see the small plaque in the wide shot, below) and the murals seen recently (at end of March) in Though An Army Besiege Me, My Heart Will Not Fear have been repainted, switching images of Israeli weapons for the images of death, suffering, and destruction seen here.
According to the Al Jazeera tracker, the Palestinian death toll is approaching 45,000, with more than 100,000 injured.
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“Newtownabbey stands against racism” held down with a small sticker of the Palestinian flag.
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“… not a weakness.” Mental health mural in the middle Falls, with the telephone numbers for Lifeline, the Samaritans, and the Suicide Awareness & Support Group.
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