Belfast

Attendez: Je Suis Charlie

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2015-02-14 DevlinChaplin+

Charlie Hedbo, the satirical Parisian weekly which became internationally known after a gun attack in January in which 12 were killed, is named after Charlie Brown (from Charles Schultz’s Peanuts) but the Charlie Chaplin above (as seen in The Kid) uses French to try to claim the name for himself. Chaplin and his family settled in French-speaking Switzerland after he was denied entry to the US as part of Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt of artists with alleged communist sympathies (WP). Stencil by Patrick Devlin in the city centre. See previously: Blowing My Mind | Mr. Lee | The Passion

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2015-03-14 EndBritSmontCutsWide1+

As wrangling over the Welfare Reform Bill continues (with the extra layer of difficulty that comes with politics in these parts), Gael Force Art (Fb) have unveiled their latest message on the mountain (Sliabh Dubh), in support of a strike on the 13th by public sector workers (BBC-NI): End Brit/S’mont Cuts.

See previously: No War But The Class War

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B. A.

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2014-09-06 HaddockTynedale+

“In loving memory: Andrew “BA” Haddock. You still live on in the hearts and minds of the family and friends you left behind. Missed by all your family and friends in Ballysillan.” The board above to a local lad who died young sits next to rock-wall seating and a sculpture on Tyndale Drive in Ballysillan.

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Occupied Ireland’s Bus Circle

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2014-10-24 LigonielBusCircle+

“This mural was created by Youth Action, occupied Ireland’s Ligoniel Young Men with the help of Blaze FX Art Design.” Previously it read “Northern Ireland”. The mural includes one youth gazing down into the city, the bus coming up to Ligonield, two spray-paint artists painting the mural and (just off to the left) two boys fishing.

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The Bar Is Called Heaven

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2015-02-07 UpstairsWide+

Here is the full width of the “upstairs” of Ciaran Gallgher’s Belfast Exposed, and with it the full expanse of the Klondyke Bar mural above it (featured previously in Nixon Resigns, Best Quits). For close shots of the ‘upstairs’, see Fifty Shades Of Belfast | Teenage Dreams.

To get some sense of the scale of these works, you should (get yourself a large monitor and) …

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No War But The Class War

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2015-02-26 ClassWar+

“Smash Stormont. Oppose Tory cuts.” INLA/IRSP stencil on Northumberland Street, calling for people to support a ‘day of action’ tomorrow (2015-03-13). Replaces These Colors Don’t Run.

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A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere

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2014-05-06 North3Women+

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. A women is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” This past Saturday (2015-03-08) was International Women’s Day. The board above (on one of the Donegall Road bridges) features the Westinghouse ‘We Can Do It!’ poster (often mistaken for Rosie The Riveter) (WP) though here with a women’s liberation badge on her collar (shown in large size on the right). She is between images of women at work. See also: The Home Front.

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The Final Volley

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2014-11-08 GlenwoodVolley+

This republican mural in Glenwood shows a funeral party firing a volley of shots over a tricolour-draped coffin containing one of the ten hunger-strikers of 1981: Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Tom McElwee, Mickey Devine. The H-blocks of Long Kesh are in the background.

2015 repainting of a 2001 mural.

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Take It Down From The Mast

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2014-11-10 FlashTraitor+

“Take It Down From The Mast” is a song accusing pro-treaty forces (at the time of the Irish Civil War) of being unworthy to fly the Irish tricolour (WP). Someone in west Belfast feels the same way about “Flash”, Sınn Féın councillor Jim McVeigh, who tried asked for a Tricolour flying at a Springfield Road Council dump to be removed in October (2014), and calls him an “Irish traitor”.

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Made Beautiful By Age

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2014-12-04 IndiaTyres+

Here are some faded corporate hoardings: India tyres and Lambert’s cigarettes on Shore Road in north Belfast, and from much further along the same road, in Whiteabbey, Coca-Cola (with stormtrooper graffiti).

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