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Titanic Town – North Belfast

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The mural features “North Belfast dockers, millworkers, shipyard workers [from] Titanic town 1912”.

Along the bottom are the names of various Belfast pubs and other businesses: The Waterloo, The Terminus, The Sportsmans Arms, The White Hart, The Bowling Green, The City Arms, The Orpheus – York Street, Railway Bar – Canning Street [image from 1970], The Edinburgh Castle [the boat of the Union-Castle line, launched 1910, built at H&W?], York Street Mill, The Gibralter [sic] Bar [whose then-owner was killed in 1972], Ye Old Castle [a bar (and restaurant?) bombed in 1971], The White Lion. Please leave a comment if you can add any information about these place-names.

A close-up of the info plaque at the top right can be found below. The piece was painted by Jim Russell from Glasgow.

The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)’s collection of photographs of Belfast, 1912-1914 (some actually from 1911 and 1915) contains various shots of the area.

There are always cars parked in front of the mural, which is at the blind end of St. Vincent Street, next to Crusaders’ football ground. But finally we have captured it entire, automobile-free, in an extra-large (3854 pixels wide) image.

Previously: Titanic Town – South Belfast

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Just As Good As Others

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RNU (Republican Network For Unity) mural at the top of Berwick Road (Paráıd An Ardghleanna) featuring the words of Maıréad Farrell, one of the PIRA members shot on Gibraltar.

“Everyone tells me I’m a feminist. All I know is that I’m just as good as others … and that especially means men. I am definitely a socialist and I am definitely a republican. I believe in a united socialist country, definitely socialist. Capitalism can offer our people nothing and yet that’s the main interest of the British in Ireland.”

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McMahon’s

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There is a new commercial piece on the exterior of McMahon’s bar in Sailortown. The image above is one of three panels (wide shot of the whole below), showing the nearby St. Joseph’s church (along with the tin man from the Wizard Of Oz and the Guinness toucan by John Gilmour).

The third image below is of St. Joseph’s, now flanked by the Granary building (the Clow building) and the Merchant building. the sculpture of the rescuing angel in the foreground is by Maurice Harron, the artist who did the ‘Outreach’ sculpture in London-/Derry/Doire, featured previously in a mural on the Abercorn bar.

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Hands Up

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These pictures of children with a hand in the air can be found above the office of Cumann Pobaıl Mhachaıre Botháın, the Marrowbone Community Association office on the Oldpark Road/Bóthar Na Seanphaırce.

Below is a short (15 min) documentary about the area.

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Bone Memorial 2

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Memorial garden and mural in Clós Ard An Lao, in Ardoyne, in remembrance of 38 local people (“from the greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna area”) who died during the troubles. Previously seen in 2010.

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A View From Life’s Other Side

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This street art is on a wall/fence that runs right through the middle of Alexandra Park, separating the loyalist Mountcollyer and republican Newington neighbourhoods. The ‘History Comes Alive’ triptych is on the nationalist side.

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Our Friends And Comrades

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A fourth piece from Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close, a short, dead-end, street in Ard Eoın/Ardoyne. “In memory of our friends and comrades. This memorial is dedicated to all those Irish Republicans who fought in the struggle for Irish freedom and in the defence of this community in our time of need. The memorial honours their courage and dedication to the cause of Irish freedom. Ar dheıs Dé go raıbh a n-anam.”

Apart To Play

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Two side of the same peace line, with new, near-identical street-art on each side. Above, the view from the Protestant (Woodvale/Shankill) side; below, the view from the Ardoyne side.