Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA, the trio who made up US rap group the Beastie Boys until MCA’s (Adam Yauch’s) 2012 death. Street art by Glen Molloy (Fb) for CNB17/HTN17. Much more from Glen Molloy.
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IRA volunteer and Sınn Féın politician Martin McGuinness died in March 2017 from amyloidosis (Guardian obituary). See also: Your A Scumbag, Martin McGuinness and The Bogside Butcher.
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“Decolonise your mind” and “Give a yell!” (or “Let’s go!) (in Irish “Lıg do Lıú”) on the Falls Road at Waterford Street, west Belfast.
Update: Below, the graffiti in 2018 (with “Brısfıdh mé do phus!” and “Múscaıl do mhısneach”) on top of The Plan For Today
Previous decolonisation: Rebels’ Unrest.
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South Belfast UDA commander Robert Dougan killed by the IRA on February 10th, 1998 while sitting in a car outside Balmoral Textiles in Dunmurry, two months before the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Ed Maloney summed up the situation at the time in a Sunday Tribune article. “A gentleman till the very end, he died as he lived, he was everyone’s friend.”
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IRPWA (Fb | tw) board protesting the treatment of republican prisoners in Maghaberry “torture camp”, next to Free Derry Corner, with a Palestinian flag and the Bogside Artists’ Bloody Sunday mural in the background.
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Derry Gaol was built in 1791 with towers added in 1824, including the one shown above for executions by hanging. The rest of the prison was demolished in 1973; this tower lives on as a small WWI museum. For more info, see Rambling Wombat.
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Restoration on the exterior St Joseph’s chapel in Sailortown – a Catholic church decommissioned in 2001 – is set to begin this month (BelTel). The building, originally constructed in 1880, is in such a state that it was declared a dangerous building earlier this year (Irish News). Here are three images from the front: a masonry rose above the door; a plaque to two young girls who were killed by a UDA car bomb in 1972; and a wide shot. BelfastLive has a gallery of the interior, which also needs restoration.
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Not happy with his Tyrion Lannister, Visual Waste (Web | Fb | tw) turned it into Harley Quinn (in her more recent incarnation by Margot Robbie in the Suicide Squad movie) within a few days. The title of the piece is ‘Split the problem, not your personality’, giving the work a mental health message.
The mural was then quickly “enhanced” by members of TMN (second image). The wide shot, third below, shows the trio of Dan Kitchener’s The Dream, Friz’s Tyger, Tyger, and the Visual Waste piece.
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