This vintage piece of graffiti, “Provisionals”, is on the side of a house in Twinbrook’s Gardenmore Road.
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Provisionals
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Resistance
This is a new (2015-04-04) tarp on Ardoyne Avenue showing a scene from Grafton Street in the Battle Of Dublin in the civil war (1922) (irishhistory.blogspot.com), with in-sets featuring PIRA volunteers on patrol in 1987 (BelTel), and a home-made rocket-launcher used in a 2014 attack on police (see, e.g. irishmirror.ie).
“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed leaving all of the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.” Bobby Sands (Prison Diary May 1st)
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Don’t Shout IRA
Here’s a piece of graffiti from just below Divis flats from last week; it has already been removed: Máire Drumm’s 1969 remark “Don’t shout [Up the] IRA; join the IRA”.
Previously on the same wall: Not Working | In-Former Republicans
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An Raıbh Tú Ag An gCarraıg?
“Were you at the rock?” A red-headed lass (from an illustration in the Weekly Freeman of December 19th, 1891, commemorating 1798) with a horn stands watch for others at a mass rock – a stone in a remote location for Catholic worship, made necessary by a Penal law of 1695 which forbade the religious practice of Catholicism and “dissenter” forms of Protestantism (that is, anything other than Anglicism) (source). The harp, with a “cap of liberty” rather than a crown (WP), together the slogan “Equality – It is new strung and it shall be heard” is the emblem of the Society of United Irishmen (WP). On the other side of the mural (seen below) linen lies in the fields bleaching and a farmer and wife plough the land with a team of horses and distribute seed.
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Coming Soon
This stencil is at the top of Springhill Avenue, painting grounds of Gerard ‘Mo Chara’ Kelly and Gael Force Art. Mo Chara is in fact currently working on the Falls Road at McQuillan Street, painting a mural of the GPO in flames in 1916.
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No British Withdrawal?
“No British withdrawal? No royal visits!”. Republican flyers from Éırígí on Beechmount Avenue.
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At The Boundary
The Bawnmore area lies just beyond the border of Belfast, north of the city council along the Shore Road. While the area has seen many large retail chains erect stores over the last few decades, the local businesses have closed. Above, the Boundary Bar, which was burnt out in 2007, now with fake window dressing; below, Paul’s newsagents around the corner in Mount Street.
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The Strand Bar
After adding windows to the downstairs, The Strand Bar has reinstated the mural previously at the front in the form of a painted board (above) showing the original bar in Anderson Street (the current Arran Street), which was attacked by the UVF in 1975 with the loss of six lives. The relative size can be gauged from the wide shot, below. The previous mural can be seen in the bottom two images. For photographs of the original bar, see the BelfastForum.
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Lookout
There are eyes everywhere in west Belfast.
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Little Monsters
“Heroin dealers will be shot dead – ONH”. Graffiti on the Falls Road (at the old Linden Street).
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