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Speaking In Code

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03244 2016-01-02 UDA Q-S RSD+

Three images of initialisms: Above in Milner Street, “UVF” [Ulster Volunteer Force] has been painted over but “UDA” [Ulster Defence Association], “Q/S” [quis separabit], and “RSD” [Roden Street Defenders] remain.

In the second image, in Beechmount Grove, we have “CRF” [Catholic Reaction Force?], “UTH” [Up the hoods], “FTDHLA”, [Eff the Divis Hoods Liberation Army”, FTW” [Free the weed?], “FTONH” [Eff the Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann]

The last (in Percy St) is left as an exercise for the reader. (Or: we have no idea what “code 5” is.)

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Side By Side

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03415 2016-04-25 Union Jack StAndrew Saltire+

In a lay-by just off Montrose Street: a Union Flag and St. Andrew’s Saltire.

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You’re Never Too Old

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03356 2016-04-02 Never Too Old+

The saying “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream another dream” is attributed to east-Belfast-bred C.S. Lewis — shown here on the right — though we are unable to find any record of him saying or writing these words; instead it might be be a motivational speaker called Les Brown. In the rest of the piece, young people play in the grounds of Queen’s University and Belfast City Hall.

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Village Life

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03328 2016-03-14 Village Life 3+

Here are all five panels from Lesley Cherry’s Village Life piece at the rear of the Windsor Women’s Centre in south Belfast (along with the Salmon Of Knowledge piece featured previously). In the first two, wrapped up in the ribbons streaming from a horse in the central panel (shown above) are a drum (against a backdrop of Belfast city, including a Harland & Wolff crane), a bathtub, teapot and teacup, and pot and pan. The fourth shows the spire of a church and the fifth the smokestack from a factory.

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Lost Volunteers

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03431 2016-05-02 Somme Memorial+

The main part of a Red Hand Commando mural was replaced recently with a board commemorating the action and deaths of the British Army’s 36th (Ulster) Division in World War I’s Battle Of The Somme, of which Captain Wilfrid Spender wrote, “I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday, the 1st July, as I followed their amazing attack, I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world. My pen cannot describe adequately the hundreds of heroic acts that I witnessed … The Ulster Volunteer Force, from which the division was made, has won a name which equals any in history.”

As shown in the three additional images, part of the old mural (and its plaques) remains on the right, “In memory of all loyalists who gave their lives in defence of Ulster – Lest we forget.”

For images of the launch (on 2016-03-08) see Belfast Live.

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Hope, Life

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03432 2016-05-03 Hope Life+

As can be seen above and in the two detail shots, below, the words “hope” and “life” are painted into the two sides of the waterfall that runs down the gable wall in the Clandeboye Street community garden in east Belfast beneath swallows and cherry trees. Painted by Friz (Web | Fb | Tw) in 2015. The final shot shows the similar palette of colours in the railings along the Newtownards Road.

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No More, Again

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03412 2016-04-25 No More d+

A boy in blue and girl in green, from opposite communities in east Belfast, shake hands against the backdrop of the Harland & Wolff cranes. The poem “No More” in the middle of the mural is by community worker Jim Wilson, whose grandson Dylan is shown on the left. A smaller version of this mural, without the poem, is in Short Strand’s Edgar Street – see No More.

No more bombing, no more murder
No more killing of our sons
No more standing at the grave side
Having to bury our loved ones

No more waking up every hour
Hoping our children, they come home
No more maimed or wounded people
Who have suffered all alone

No more minutes to leave a building
No more fear of just parked cars
No more looking over our shoulders
No more killing in our bars

No more hatred from our children
No more. No more. No more!

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Carnmoney Remembers

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This is a new Somme centenary mural in Carnmoney/Ballyduff, in memorial of the First World War and 1916 in particular. It also serves as a memorial to members of the Pride of the Hill flute band, David Lee and Kris Muckle. (It’s not clear what “Vivete in somnio” means – neither “vivete” nor “somnio” are Latin; “vivete” is Italian but “somnio” is not. Get in touch/leave a comment if you know what is intended.)

For images of Saturday’s launch, see the POTH Facebook page.

For a little information about Lee and Muckle, see the post on the previous mural in this location: Absent Friends.

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Four-Letter Words

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03442 2016-05-06 Stop Votng+

Three more images from the recent electoral season. Political parties were putting up hoardings and posters everywhere, such as Sınn Féın’s “Vote” ad (next to one for the rock-band Busted on their ‘Pigs Can Fly’ tour) and the DUP’s use of the spectre of a nationalist first minister as a reason to “keep” Arlene Foster and colleagues. Above, however, the watch-word is “stop”: “Want change? Stop vot[i]ng”.

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03440 2016-05-04 Keep Arlene First+

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Now Recruiting

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03445 2016-05-10 Now Recruiting YC+

In preparation for the upcoming marching season, the Young Conquerors Flute Band is looking for new members to fill to roles of “drummers, fluters, bass drummers, colour party”. Three posters on the Shankill Road.

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