Someone has written ‘Freedom’ next to the blackbird that feeds on the garbage cans in College Street Mews. As can be seen below, the bird is next to Don’t Drone Me, Bro.
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This LPA (Loyalist Prisoners’ Association) mural in Kenbaan Street (at the junction of Castlereagh Road and Street) shows a red hand in barbed wire against a background of the towers and walls of Long Kesh.
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Culture Night work by This Is Filth (Fb) in North Street: Read More.
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“Time changes! But the sacrifice remains the same.” Pictured is a board in Ogilvie Street in east Belfast, sponsored by the EU and the Cosy Somme Association, showing, in black and white, a WWI soldier, who is comforting another solider, in modern gear and in colour. The emblems of the 36th (Ulster) division and Royal Irish Rifles are also shown.
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The colourful mural above is in Pearl Street, in the Willowfield area of east Belfast. It shows children playing and talking, depicted inside of a series of cogs.
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Above is a recently unveiled printed banner to Martin Meehan, an IRA volunteer from the local Ardoyne area. As can be seen from the flyer in the second image, the launch took place on November 3rd, on the sixth anniversary of his death. A gallery of images of the launch can be found at Demotix. The photograph which informs the controversial central portion can be seen on Meehan’s WP page. The piece was paint-bombed on Nov. 6th (Irish News)
Replaces The Flight Of The Earls, and before that, Collusion Is Not An Illusion.
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X01431 X01432 Ardoyne Ave independent commemoration in honour of óglach sunday 3rd avenue organized by family & friends fáılte gach daoıne everyone welcome poblacht na héıreann the provisional government of the irish republic 1945-2007
Here are four small painted metal-work pieces, signed “B McC”, on the railings of the Ledley Hall Boys & Girls Club, just off Beersbridge Road in east Belfast. The pieces show the building, soccer being played in the shadow of Harland & Wolff – the goal is prevented by a giant red hand – and two boxers boxing – the club was originally a boxing gym (est. 1942), and girls playing hockey and netball.
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Above is a scored clay piece showing workers in a “foundary” (foundry). There are foundries in Belfast dating to the mid-to-late 1700s (e.g. Eileen McCracken, “Charcoal-Burning Ironworks in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ireland”, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 21 (1957)) but nothing specifically about 1767 or about a foundry in Exchange Place (or whatever preceded it – Exchange Place dates to the Victorian era). If you have information, please get in touch. There is a set of six pieces in a similar style on the Cupar Way “peace” line, regrettably covered in graffiti and tourists’ signatures. See also: Pot-House Lane.
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A blue-locked beauty sleeps on the shutter of the Tivoli Barber Shop in North Street, painted by KinMX (Fb) for Culture Night Belfast, 2013. (Other CNB pieces.)
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Thomas “Bootsey” Begley died when a bomb he was carrying into a fish shop on the Shankill Road exploded. The bomb killed Begley and nine others. The plaque above was unveiled in Ardoyne on October 20th, 2013 – twenty years after the event – to protests from relatives of the deceased (BBC-NI).
See also the plaque on the Shankill to the nine people who died.
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X01408 belfast brigade oglach died on active service 23rd october 1993 always remembered by his many comrades and friends it takes courage and devotion to your people to take the hard road to freedom seamus twomey
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