“Ardoyne, Bone & Ligoniel Easter Re-Union, on Tuesday 2nd April, Crumlin Star social club, 8 til late, with prominent guest speaker, traditional Irish night, followed by disco. Taıle [entrance fee] £5.00”.
In CNR north Belfast.
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A tarp has been added to the Ardoyne memorial garden (seen previously in 2008) putting the 12 deceased hunger strikers from the modern Troubles alongside those who were executed for their part in the Easter Rising.
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, Belfast
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“Welcome To The Shankill Road. We are Proud, Defiant, Welcoming” with images of Belfast in the blitz, the Orange Order and bonfires on July 12th, boxing and soccer, and contemporary murals in the local area. The mural is above the security gates on Northumberland Street.
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Red Hand Commando volunteer Stevie McCrea was sentenced to 16 years for the murder of James Kerr in 1972 (Behind The Mask) and was subsequently “murdered by the enemies of Ulster” on February 18th, 1989 in an IPLO attack on the Orange Cross (see M00560 | WP).
“For he shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary him nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him.”
McCrea is included on murals in south Belfast’s Frenchpark Street and Broadway (dating back to at least 1993).
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A house in Shankill Parade sports an “Ibrox Stadium G51 – Rangers Football Club” plate over the door. (G51 is the postcode for Glasgow and the surrounding area.)
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Mural in Disraeli Street to Trevor King, to the left of the old Brian Robinson mural and two gables to the right of the new Brian Robinson mural. Having been shot by the INLA and paralysed from the neck down, King took the decision to remove his own life-support (WP).
The words on the left are from Suicide In The Trenches by WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon:
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads pass by
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go
The poem refers to a soldier whose naturally cheerful disposition has been overwhelmed by the horrors of war.
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X01014 lt. col. trevor king y.c.v. for gold and ulster u.v.f. 1912 1st belfast battaltion ‘b’ company; in proud and loving memory of james ulster volunteer force died 9th july 1994 at the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember 14th battalion royal irish rifles somme ypres arras thiepval young citizen volunteers st, quentin grandcourt messines fricourt
Following on from the crannóg excavations, we might say that we walk around on top of the past, layer upon layer. Here, however, the living people walk around below those that are frozen in time.
North Street, Belfast/Béal Feırste.
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X00969 though newly christened smithfield and union has existed for generations its identity and its existence has never been in question giving it a name gives it a heart celebrates the individual the different the separate the idiosyncratic and the eclectic old belfast new vision
This is the second mural to Brian Robinson in Disraeli Street. This is a much older one than the one featured on Extramural Activity a few days ago; versions of this mural on this gable go back to at least 1993. Note that the artist has included a transmitter or surveillance tower on the skyline
See the previous post for more details of his death.
A close-up of the plaque is below. As the plaque notes, his mother died at the same time –she reportedly had a heart-attack when she heard of his death.
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X01012 X01013 In proud and loving memory of Vol. brian robinson “b” coy. 1st belfast battalion ulster volunteer force killed in action 2nd september 1989 also his loving mother margaret robinson died 3rd september 1989, for god and ulster p.a.f. protestant action U.v.f. for his country and people he took up the gun a volunteer to the end and a true ulster son robbed of his life’s-blood sept. ’89 but his name will live for all time, y.c.v. royal irish rifles st. quentin grand court messines
Bobby Sands grew up and went to school in Rathcoole but in 1972, when he was eighteen, the family home was attacked. They moved to Twinbrook, where Sands joined the IRA (Bobby Sands Trust | WP).
This mosaic is near the Twinbrook home, on the same wall that was the site of the Carol-Ann Kelly mural. Kelly was killed two weeks after Sands’s death.
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In these details from one of the murals at the Duke Of York, Wilde, Beckett and Joyce lie at the feet of Van Morrison, along with two of Van’s albums, a saxophone, a pack of cigarettes, a pail of water and two cone-shaped objects. Sınéad O’Connor and Barry McGuigan, among others look on. In the second image, there are two Them posters on the back wall and Van’s Magic Time album is on stage.
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david mcwilliams, james galway, alex higgins, rab mccullough, gary lightbody, horslips barso, joey dunlop, terri hooley, feargal sharkey, horslips john o’neill, big jim mcdowell, mark o’shea, the edge, sam neill, jimmy reilly, james young, liam neeson, jimmy nesbitt, rory gallagher, seamus heaney, clodagh rodgers, belfast local ruby murray, tony mccoy, katie melua, belfast local ann marie, geraldine hughes, cormac neeson, jackie wright, johnny hero, brian kennedy, darren, juliet turner, dan gordon, gerry anderson, gloria hunniford, barry mcguigan, sinead o’connor, rinty monaghan, gary moore, dana, phil coulter, phil lynott, george best, pat jennings, derek bell, jimmy ellis, bob dylan, john lennon, neil young, willie jack
outside: mark, una healey, michael, enya, nick, angela feeney, c s lewis, dennis taylor, may mcfettridge, paul brady, winston, patrick kielty, brian moore, willie john mcbride, pearce elliot, john lynch, george hamilton, pierce brosnan, ciaran mcmenamin, maggie cronin, hammy, lisa, big william, chris, paddy, eddie irvine, christine bleakley, brendan behan, derek dougan, patrick kavanagh, sir john lavery, john mccormack, danny blanchflower, mary peters, harry gregg, frank carson, martin o’neill OBE, dervla kirwin, stephen rea, hugh russell, wee john caldwell, nadine coyle, julie, martin lynch, nee, ronnie drew, dolores o’riordan, ciaran hinds, belfast local caron keating, kenneth branagh, alice, liam clancy, duke special, bono
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