CNR

Pro

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Amateur World and European champion Michael Conlan fought – and won – his first professional fight on St. Patrick’s Day, 2017 in New York. Glen Molloy (Fb | Inst) brings his distinctive style to the pugilist’s portrait.

For the mural celebrating Conlan’s 2012 Olympic medal, see Green, White And Bronze.

Previously by Molloy: Jack Nicholson | Billy Casper | Shaun of the Dead/Leo DiCaprio/Bowie | Walken/Adam Ant/Harrison Ford | Prince/George Michael | Homeless … No Less | Blackjack Tattoo

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04098 oakman st

Don’t Be A Victim Of Crime

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Four cameras for “just” 349 pounds in order to “protect your home, your car & your kids”, next to a “Brits out” stencil in Beechmount Avenue.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04073

Fáılte Go Dtí Ard Eoın

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Welcome to Ardoyne.” Updated images of a 2014 series of panels in Ardoyne Avenue, celebrating the neighbourhood and reproducing some well-known images from the area. The years have not been kind, with the top layer of brick coming off in many places, including the eyes of boxer Eamonn Magee (?).

For the originals, see Growing Up Too Fast.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03307 X03308 X03309 X03310 mickey doherty

Joe McCann

Extramural Activity2 Comments

Joe McCann was (Official) IRA OC in the Markets area of south Belfast, where he was shot by paratroopers in 1972. The HET in 2013 found that the killing was unjustified, as McCann was unarmed and shot multiple times at close range; the DPP announced in December 2016 that two soldiers – now in their 60s – are to stand trial for the shooting. (WP | Irish Times | Telegraph which also includes the photograph used as a background, which shows McCann, with MI, during the occupation of the Inglis bakery in the Markets on August 9th, 1971 – Internment Day.)

The new board fills in a gap in the upper part of Beechmount Avenue: Free Tony Taylor | Bilal Kayed | The Workers Party | McGurk’s Bar | 9 panels (X02894 X02895 X02896) | Plastic Bullets | 6 panels (X02898 X02899 X02900) | Springhill – Westrock | Collusion Untried | Ballymurphy | 3 panels (X02904) | WBTA | Joe McCann | Stop Wars Not People | Sankara | 32CSM | Fidel Castro

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04072 X04074 soldier of the people staff captain executed by british crown forces shoot to kill erected by the official republican movement

Respect For All

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Two final pieces from the #ae17 election campaign. Above, a somewhat menacing crocodile waits impatiently for an Irish-language act: “Meas do chách – Acht na Gaeılge anoıs!” (“Respect for all – Irish language act now!”) The white circle on red is the logo of An Dream Dearg, an Irish-language campaign (Irish News); the crocodile stems from DUP leader Arlene Foster’s response to Sınn Féın demands for an Act, when she said “If you feed a crocodile, they’re going to keep coming back and looking for more.” (BBC-NI | video at RTÉ) She later said she regretted the remarks as they allowed her to be demonised during the campaign (BelTel).

Below, Saoradh’s plea that “A vote for Stormont equals a vote for British rule – Don’t vote! Reject the quislings and Brit collaborators.” (See also: Stormont Must Go)

Previously: Previously from the 2017 Assembly Elections: Tapaıgh An Deıs | End The Age Of the Dinosaurs | Keep Belfast Clean | Hard Border | The Burning Issue

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04071 X04067 clifton st new lodge rd

The Burning Issue

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
04057-2017-03-01-end-corruption-rhi

Not a phoenix or a bonfire but a pile of sterling going up in flames, a reference to the recent RHI (“Renewable Heat Incentive” rather than Sinn Féin’s promised “Respect, honesty, integrity”) scandal which was a cause of yesterday’s election. Whether it will make any difference to the electorate will be seen today, as counting gets under way in the 2017 Assembly Elections.

Previously from #ae17 (Assembly Elections 2017): Tapaıgh An Deıs | End The Age Of the Dinosaurs | Keep Belfast Clean | Hard Border

Previously about RHI: Heating Empty Barns … Killing Kids

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04057 end corruption Arthur Rd

Hard Border

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
04050-2017-02-27-hard-border

The UK’s vote to leave the EU (“Brexit”) might mean the return of the “hard” border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. The board shown above lists the Tories, DUP, TUV, and (west Belfast rivals) People Before Profit as supporters of Brexit. PBP supported the exit on anti-austerity grounds.

Previously from #ae17 (Assembly Elections 2017): Tapaıgh An Deıs | End The Age Of the Dinosaurs | Keep Belfast Clean

04033-2017-02-12-votail-sinn-fein

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04050 X04033 Glen Rd Falls Rd

Uncensored Memorials

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
04031-2017-02-12-uncensored-memorials

Two images of mason’s shops in west and east Belfast. Above, on the Falls Road, McAdams Memorials, with IRPWA signs for “Uncensored Béal Feırste political tours” on the first floor. Below, Hamilton Memorials on Woodstock Road, with “Justice 4 Rings(?) RIP” on the side wall.

04008-2017-01-17-hamilton-memorials

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04031 X04008

Lifeline

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
04016-2017-01-31-suicide-awareness

In the background, an RNU suicide awareness stencil (with tricoloured sunbursts) – “RNU support the promotion of suicide awareness in the Colin area”; in the foreground, a Sinn Féin poster – “Respect for all – marriage equality now!” At the pedestrian entrance to Old Colin.

(And to the left, a broken End Torture board can be seen.)

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04016 pantridge rd

Life Span

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment
03964-2016-12-05-rvh-face3

There are 11 faces in the railings of the Royal Victoria Hospital, created by Bruce Williams and Avril Wilson in 2000, one for each decade in age from infancy to 100 years old. The letters “X” and “Y” run along the top of the helically-twisting railings between the portraits, representative of DNA. Included here are the portraits for 20, 80, and 50.

03962-2016-12-05-rvh-face1

03963-2016-12-05-rvh-face2

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2016 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03962 X03964 X03963