Work-site curtaining on Inverary Avenue bears a protest message concerning the residents of a new development by Trinity Housing. “Trinity House – Local people in local homes! In it for the long haul! Protest still ongoing. No change until Trinity sees sence. Nobody moving in until local residents are housed!!”
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Here are two final images from the Clifton Street Orange Lodge, the first showing various insignia on a sash, including a Bible and crossed swords, the second showing various halberds.
The title of the post comes from a well-known phrase “with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other”, the earliest appearance of which seems to be in Giovanni Battista Nicolini’s 1854 History Of The Jesuits: “Protestantism, a giant in its infancy, standing in a menacing attitude, with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, bid defiance to the impugners of the Sacred Volume.”
Previously: All Our Hope On Thee Is Stayed | Occupy | Total Abstinence | Across The Water
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Three images of a low wall mural in Hogarth Street (in Tiger’s Bay). Above is the right-hand side, showing workers of a former era heading home from the shipyard. One of the H&W cranes can be seen in the background (and to its left, the new Titanic centre). Below is the right-hand side of the piece, depicting a preacher with a sandwich board: Seek, and you shall find – Matthew: 7:7. The artist is (reportedly) the same person as did the Belfast Blitz mural on the other side of the street.
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UDA graffiti on the shutters of a dilapidated building at the top (southern) end of Sandy Row.
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Above is a recently-added banner, from Tiger’s Bay loyalists, to the Twaddell Avenue protest camp – Carson’s statue in front of Stormont with the words ‘We will not be the generation to fail Ulster. Ulster is British. No Surrender’. A wide shot of the south side of the street, where the camp is, can be found below.
Previously: Civil Rights Camp | Supporters Club | Twaddell Protest Camp
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Two more images from inside the Clifton Street Orange Lodge, one of Britannia and a lion by the shore, between the army and the navy, and the other (below) of the victory of William of Orange over James in 1690.
Previously: Total Abstinence | Occupy | All Our Hope On Thee Is Stayed
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Above is a new mural by JMK (Jonny McKerr – Fb) in Hogarth Street (in Tiger’s Bay) with images of the Belfast Blitz – in the apex a Nazi bomber sets buildings alight; in the main panel, people, including a milkman, walk among the bombed-out buildings.
900 people died and half the homes in Belfast were destroyed or damaged (WP).
In the bottom right corner, men listen to a woman testing a piano after it was moved – the original can be seen at Communities NI. The garden wall (to the right of the shot) has an outline on it but is not yet finished.
Update 2013-10-16: The garden wall to the right has been completed. It features a painted frame surrounding a manufactured plaque. See below for an image.
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X01318 X01319 X01395 this mural is dedicated to the people who lost their lives in tiger’s bay on the 16th april 1941 during the belfast blitz anderson brown campbell carson christy clarke donnnelly dornan duffy erskine fee flack gordon halliday hillis howard irwin jerwood kennedy kinghan lilley lynas lyttle mcatamney mcavoy mccary mccullough mcdowell mchugh mcintyre mcilwayne mckinty mcknight mclellan mcneil millar miller moore mulhulland pollock renton rossborough spratt taggart toogood venn venton warwick wilson
For the Union Flag mural on the other side of the road, see The People’s Army and LPWA, and for the plaque see Big Bill Campbell.
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After a delay, the UVF mural in Inverwood Court, replacing a George Best mural, has been finished. (The Belfast Telegraph reports it was finished on 2013-09-21, and that negotiations to remove it are “ongoing”.) The quote on the right – Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed – comes from the section of Martin Luther King’s Letter From A Birmingham Jail in which he considers the merits of civil disobedience or direct action. For a shot of the half-finished piece, see Second Best.
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A fourth and final metal-work piece from the Cupar Way “peace” line shows an aeroplane in outline over a globe and gives a list of various Belfast streets which were formerly industrial centres: Shankill Rd., North St., Victoria St., High St., Ann St., Peters Hill, Royal Ave., Castle Place, Queens Bridge. A wide shot of all (one | two | three) four pieces (as well as Let Go Of The Past and 3 R’s) can be found below.
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Extramural Activity 