Detail of a mural commemorating the battle of the Somme in the courtyard of the Times Bar, York Road. The mural is probably based on the work of JP Beadle, such as the painting “Battle of the Somme: Attack of the Ulster Division”, which hangs in Belfast City Hall (militaryprints.com).
Wide shot below …
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Union Flag and territorial graffiti, Westland Road, north Belfast.
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Detail from a mural on the courtyard of the Times bar, York Road. In the 2012-2013 season Rangers are playing in the Scottish League’s Division 3 (i.e. the fourth-tier league) after it became insolvent in February, 2012. Full mural below, along with another copy of the club’s emblem on the outside of the bar.
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Graffiti on the side of Cliftonville’s football ground – ‘Not for Shale’.
There is a persistent if low-level anti-fracking campaign in north Belfast. The proposed fracking is to take place in Fermanagh-Leitrim-Cavan area.
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On the side wall of the Times Bar in York Street, a mural commemorating Irish and Northern Irish service in the British military.
Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne is featured on the left (WP).
A plaque in the middle reads: In memory of Pte. F.G. Dolloghan, Parachute Regt. Killed at the Nijmegan Bridges, Holland, Sept. 1944. (WWII’s Operation Market Garden (WP))
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X00795 [M05258 in prog] Faugh-A-Ballagh, Lt. col. robert blair mayne d.s.o. middle east 1st bar sicily 2nd bar normandy 3rd bar n.w. europe 1939-45 stat africa italy france germany defence medal war legion d’honneur croix de guerre 36th ulster division royal irish rifles ulster leinsters guards inniskilling dragoon UDR fusiliers queens hassars north horse south rangers munster dublin connaught martinique 1762 havannah st. lucia 1778-1792 india cape of good hope 1806 maida monte video nourbon busaco fuentes d’onor java tarifa talavera badajoz salamance vittoria pyrennes ciudad rodrico niagara orthes toulouse ava south africa 1935, 1846047 sevastopol central india tel-el-kebir egypt 1882, 1884 relief of ladysmith 1899-1902 mons le cateau marne 1914 messine 1914 17 18 ypres 1914-15 neuuve chapelle loos albert 1917 arras 1917 cambrai 1917-18 st. quentin hindenburg line france and flanders macedonia suvla gallipoli gaza jerusalem palestine 1917-18 dyle scomer-la bassee dunkirk 1940 normandy landing caen iraq thine bremen bou arrada djebel tanniguocha 1942-43 centuripe 1943 sangro garigliano crossing anzio cassino II tiber argenta gap 1943-45 malta 1940 yenangyuang 1952 burma 1942043 imjin korea 1950-51
Here is another mural celebrating the Northern Ireland football team with the slogan “our wee country” on the top part of a wall of the Times Bar in York Street.
George Best is on the left and (perhaps) David Healy on the right.
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Loyalist boards showing a (UVF) hooded gunman and a tiger from the “Mount Vernon Volunteers” wearing a purple beret, on Ross House, the Mount Vernon tower block. On the upper floors are an Ulster Banner and Union Flags.
See also: Families Against Supergrass Trials.
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This is one of the most famous murals in Belfast on account of its position overlooking the entrance of Mount Vernon and the M2 – the central gunman appears to be aiming right at you as you come down the off-ramp to the Shore Road. The original mural (T00138 | D00382) – which dates back to the ceasefire (1995) – was on a gable at the front of the estate but the entire block of houses was knocked down (c. 2000 – BelTel). It was later recreated (though without the words “3rd battalion” above “North Belfast) in the current more elevated position.
The other gunman-aiming-right-at-you mural is the UDU mural in the lower Shankill estate.
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This house-front on the Shore Road is a mix of union flags and Christmas decorations. The centre-piece states that the resident is “Proud To Be British”.
The ASDA railings in the background were the site of the memorial to Billy Hunter.
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Another union jack, this time on the Shore Road, next to a banner boasting that Crusaders (featured previously 1 | 2) are “All Ireland Champions 2012”, having won the Setanta cup (WP). “Setanta” is Cúchulainn’s original name; Setanta sports-television business based in Dublin (WP).
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