Work by This Is Filth (Fb) in the city centre shows an idyllic scene: a campfire burning beneath a crescent moon over the mountains.
Replaces: Chips & Ketchup
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Three F-bombs today in a concentrated package. Above we have the PSNI and the IRA combined into one (and next to a swastika, not shown) in Maladon Street, south Belfast. Below, we have “Fuck the TV man, part 3” in Roulston Street in Londonderry’s Waterside. And finally, there is is “Fuck DAAD fags” on the New Lodge Road in north Belfast. “DAAD” stands for “direct action against drugs”, a group which counted Kevin McGuigan and Jock Davison as members (both of whom were killed in a feud this summer) and now goes by “AAD”. (For AAD and the murders of Davison and McGuigan see Irish News | Belfast Telegraph | Guardian.)
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Thousands of small wooden crosses, with names and a poppy, were placed in Pitt Park, east Belfast, between November 1st and 11th to commemorate those who fell during WWI. The Last Post was sounded each night at 8. We present here four images of the scene. The event and a similar one on the Shankill (both going by the name Row By Row) were organised by the Dr. Pitt Park Centenary Committee and the Royal British Legion. (City Council minutes)
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Bonfire break-dancers and bouquet-throwing rioters outside the Woodbourne PSNI station, as well as a lambeg drum side-by-side with a bodhrán and “Only God can judge me”, here used (probably) as an anti-suicide message rather than as an excuse to take the law into one’s own hands.
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X02983 X02982 drum for peace faith love peace 2Pac all eyez on me earth world love robert indiana police service northern ireland woodbourne stewartstown rage the flower thrower chucker banksy
This CNB15 street art by Neequaye Dreph (web | Tw) is a collage of mouths, eyes, and the occasional nose.
Previously featured: Dreph’s writing for CNB14.
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Samson and Goliath, the cranes of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in east Belfast, stand alongside crosses on the burial grounds of the 36th (Ulster) Division in Flanders (though Cave Hill might be in the background) in this Flora Street mural in east Belfast. UVF flags fly overhead. One of the cranes can be seen in the background of the wide shot, below.
On the headstone in the front-middle is written “Francis Lemon 1916”, perhaps this Francis Lemon, from Ballymacarrett, who died on July 2nd: FindAGrave | IWM.
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Work by Dublin-based street artist Le Bas for CNB15 in Kent Street: a hand-drawn abstract, repeating design against a yellow background with jagged white lines over the top.
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Michael “Mickey” (though here “Micky”) Devine was red-headed and was a founder member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) in his native Derry (The Plough & The Stars) and also of the INLA (IRSP Derry). The mural on the gable shown above includes the socialist symbols of the red star and the plough, great bear (ursa major), or “big dipper” shining over the towers of Long Kesh, where Devine died on the 21st of August, 1981, after 60 days on hunger strike, the tenth and final striker to die.
The writing that can be seen faintly in the lower third (from a previous version of the mural) reads “They have served their British masters, the poor pathetic fools. They think that inhumanity and cruelty can break us. Haven’t they learnt anything? It strengthens us, it drives us on, for then more than ever we know that our cause is just. INLA Vol. Micky Devine, Long Kesh 1981”
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From an image of the city hall in flames during the week, we move to a city hall floating away on kites and being swept away by waves: “It might become conceivable that the prejudices and postures of the past could be swept away”. Both this city hall and the previous one were drawn by Ailie O’Hagan. We also below have a BA in a banshee studies from Queens by Jamie Baird. Both are part of the panels drawn during CNB15 in the Waring Street alley. The full squad also included Conor McClure, Martina Scott, Aaron Cushley, Chris Ellis, Laura Robinson, William Woods, Kevin Conaghan and the crew from Jackalope.
Update: the piece was soon (by mid-November) “vandalised” by JJ’s “Know no fear”:
While we’re at it, here’s another JJ piece, “Bring the war!” from Harbour Promenade …
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X03066 X03069 X03064 X03195 waring st alley yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose mcguinness robinson remember devolution we don’t we do this every friday life is beautiful when you’re high up kabloom QUB university belfast ba (hons)
Mural in Derry commemorating members of Na Fıanna Éıreann, the youth wing of the IRA. The names are listed in the order of death, from earliest to latest, beginning with fifteen-year-old Gerald McAuley who was shot dead in Clonard (Belfast) in 1969, and ending with John Dempsey shot on the Falls Road (Belfast) in 1981.
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X02870 michael sloan eamonn mccormick gerard donaghey david mcauley sean oriordan michael magee joseph campbell john dougal tobias molloy joseph comiskey bernard fox sean hughes michael marley neal mccrory robert allsop james templeton kevin mccauley james o’neill paul mcwilliams brıogaid dhoıre 1909-2009 oglaıgh na héıreann fuaır sıad bás ar son saoırse na héıreann sunburst ógra shınn féın
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