A detail from a board in Tower Street (off the Lower Newtownards Road) featuring a young girl carrying a union flag – a famous photograph from VE Day, 1945. For the whole mural, see M04869.
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A pensioner on the way to St. Matthew’s in Bryson Street on the morning of Sunday, December 23rd, 2012.
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A board at the top of Castlereagh Street listing residents of the street who worked in 1911 on the Titanic and Olympic. With plane-breaking lifeboats and sponsorship from Belfast City Council (see Daniela Balmaverde’s page on the project), the Department for Social Development and the Titanic Foundation.
Wide show below ….
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X00763 X00764 X05206 boiler maker plater iron turner shipyard marine engineer draughtsman smith fitter helper, carpenter apprentice joiner moulder chief harbour board clear storekeeper’s office, ropemaker, labourer, leighton cunningham, william horsly, william nelson, francis gregson, james taylor, robert keenan, john miller, joseph atkinson, john porter, william boyd, thomas finney, joseph walker, joseph simpson, sidney ham, archibald hutchinson, andrew mulgrew, james brown, robert dobson, robert simpson, john mccurley, william roy, charles cameron, john m. murray, john lapidge, william horsly (again?), thomas maitland, thomas valentine, alexander mccallum, thomas henderson, george moody, ?jack? kennedy, william wise, edward thomson, william henry ?adison?, bartholemew ivory, john campbell, james miller
A banner announcing the Rising Sons Flute Band outside their practice hall in east Belfast. (Previously: Rising Sons mural)
One of many Rising Sons youtube videos:
The banner makes an appearance in this CNN video on the rioting …
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This vintage UDA/UFF stencil goes back to the time of the ceasefire and the Agreement.
On the shutters of A1 Alterations on the Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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The industrial high-point of Belfast, according to this mural, would seem to be when people travelled on trams, cloth was woven by hand, and Titanic sat in dry dock. Only the Shorts-Bombardier aircraft confuses the nostalgia.
Bloomfield Ave, east Belfast.
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Here is a board bearing Carson’s image, on the Newtownards Road at Welland Street, opposite the junction with the Albertbridge Road, below a banner to East Belfast Protestant Boys. Carson also appears in a variety of other murals concerning the Ulster Covenant and the threat of Home Rule.
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“We in Ulster will tolerate no Sinn Féin but we tell you this – that if, having offered you our help, you are yourselves unable to protect us from the machinations of Sinn Féin, and you won’t take our help; we tell you, we will take the matter into our own hands …. ” A quote from Sir Edward Carson (probably, 12th of July, 1920 rather than 1912 – Treason Felony | RTÉ) replaces the previous “free men” quote (see M03378); the poppies between the emblems in the main panel are also new, as is the plinth the hooded gunmen are standing on, which reads “1912 East Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force” (also, “1981 Gareth Keys 2008″). In other words, the mural has been softened (slightly) by adding historical elements.
Castlereagh Road, opposite Ravensdale Street.
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This old Guinness lettering next to a black door with tan brickwork in Imperial Street. Only one shilling and eight pence (= 20 pence) per dozen!
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Mural facing East Belfast Remembers in mouth of Derwent St. at Newtownards Road.
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X00757 we owe it to the future and the victims never to forget the past. the price of peace is eternal vigilance, east belfast historical and cultural society, 20th july 1982 hyde-park 4 soldiers, 7 horses killed, 31st july 1972 claudy 9 killed in car bomb attack on co. derry village, 17th february 1978 la mon house round-up death toll 12 3 married couples are feared to be among the victims among those picked up in the raids was gerry adams a leading member of pira, 27th/28th june 1970 murder in ballymacarrett 2 innocent protestant men were murdered 28 men, women children seriously injured, 5th january 1976 kingsmills massacre massive manhunt 10 innocent men murdered by republicans, 21st novemeber 1974 birmingham pub blasts kills 21 , the troubles, lest we forget
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