Prepare To Meet Thy God

2013-05-06 PrepareGod+

More religious graffiti on the Bann towpath, just south of Portadown: “Watch! Prepare to meet thy God. The coming of the Lord is near.”

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Reality Show

2013-05-20 Shameful+

Anti-drugs board in the Tullycarnet estate. In both its title and various elements, the board references the television show Shameless, which was set on a Manchester housing estate and ended on May 28, 2013, after eleven seasons (WP). Black-and-white images from the estate, and other Belfast landmarks, are featured at the top.

The plaque below reads: Shameful mural. This mural was officially unveiled on 15th June 2009 by First Minister Peter Robinson. This mural was created by young people from Tullycarnet to highlight that drug and alcohol use should not be normalized by communities.

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Everyone Has The Right To Participate

2013-05-24 PalletsMural+

Pallets lined up in preparation for bonfires on the Twelfth (of July) in front of the human rights mural on the green behind Hopewell Crescent. A mural of the event being celebrated – King Billy (William Of Orange) crossing the Boyne river in 1690 – can be seen in the distance on the right. The words on the wall to the right read: “Where after all do universal human rights begin? … In small places close to home, so close & so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world … such are the places that every man, woman & child seek equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity.”

In the image below, more pallets and a couch.

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Tullycarnet Memorial

2013-05-22 TullMemLeft+

A three-stone memorial to army soldiers from both World Wards in Tullycarnet, featuring a line from the gospel of John (“Greater love has no-one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” 15:13) and a song by Randall Wallace for the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers called ‘The Mansions of the Lord’: To fallen soldiers let us sing, where no rockets fly nor bullets wing, our broken brothers let us bring, to the mansions of the Lord. No more weeping, no more fight, no prayers pleading through the night, just divine embrace, eternal light, in the mansions of the Lord. Where no mothers cry and no children weep, we will stand and guard though the angels sleep, Oh through the ages safely keep, the mansions of the Lord.”

By Ross Wilson with support from the International Fund For Ireland (IFI)

For a wide shot, see War And Peace.

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Many Did Not Return

2013-05-19 15thBatt+

This mural and memorial in Rathcoole commemorates soldiers from the north Belfast area who went to France in 1915 as part of the 15th (North Belfast) Royal Irish Rifles, and in particular the five whose faces appear in the apex of the mural: Magookin, La Harpur, Forrester, Baird and Templeton.

The information board is reproduced below.

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Rathcoole UFF

2013-05-20 RathcooleUFF+

This UFF/UDA/UYM mural on Iniscairn Drive in the Rathcoole estate features a red fist (centre) and a red hand wrapped in barbed wire (apex), as well two masked figures aiming rifles.

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Dream

The word “dream” in multiple languages around 40 images of children – 8 each in five panels on Oxford Street. This is the first/left-most one.

By Rita Duffy on Oxford Street, Belfast.

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Angry Burners

The Angry Birds puzzle game (on mobile devices and on Facebook) is a smash hit for Finnish game developers Rovio (WP) and is now a part of popular culture, including this take-off on the Comber Walkway – angry burners.

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The Ulster Connection

2013-05-09 RangersConnection+

A mural in east Belfast listing local players who have played for Rangers, in Glasgow, Scotland. Featured in the centre is S. English, who scored 72 goals in 81 appearances, including 44 in the 1931-1932 season. Additional player plaques have been added since 2008, as well as the dedication in the lower right corner: “In memory of Moses McNeill, a teenage boy of Ulster-Scots stock & his brothers and friends who in 1872 formed a football team in Glasgow that today is known around the world as the Rangers Football Club “.

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Jesus, Friend To All

Religious mural somewhere in the ?lower? Shankill. Please get in touch if you know the precise location.

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