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Mol An Óıge Agus Tıocfaıdh Sí

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“[Youth responds to praise] – the laughter of our children – the joy of our hearts.” A young Bobby Sands is shown in the front right, part of the Stella Maris soccer squad for 1967; he would later “respond” by becoming an IRA volunteer and hunger striker.

The plaque to the hunger strikers was originally on the left of the previous ‘1798’ mural, and the plaque to the deceased from the “greater Newington area” was embedded in it – see M03672.

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Welcome To The New Lodge

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This is an end-of-life shot of the mural at the pedestrian entrance to the New Lodge. In the front is a landscape scene with “Welcome” in different languages; in the rear are street art figures and signatures; but graffiti covers all.

(Update: It was replaced in 2014 – both front and rear – by ‘old New Lodge’ images.)

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Free The POWs

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2011 image of the historical republican POW mural in Ludlow Square, New Lodge, Belfast, seen previously in 1997 and 2010.

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William Drennan

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The William Drennan mural in the New Lodge is still hanging on, fourteen years after it was painted. See M01349.

Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast.

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New Lodge 2000

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This is a companion piece to New Lodge 1900s. Life is now lived in colour, but suffers from underemployment, alcoholism, and suicide. The German bomber has been replaced by a British Army helicopter.

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New Lodge 1900s

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The trials of life in the 1900s are depicted in this New Lodge mural. People work and die in the mills. The Germans drop bombs. Children go barefoot. The black-and-white colouring adds to the depression. The ‘New Lodge 2000‘ mural further down the road is in full colour, though life is still beset with problems.

For the mural on the low wall, see The Right To Be Happy (with republican slogan) and Young People’s Rights.

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New Lodge Six Massacre

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“Community Inquiry Report: There was a clear breach of Article 2 of the European Convention On Human Rights, the right to life. The jury was deeply moved by the integrity and honesty of the evidence they heard. We have been deeply shocked by the state’s total failure to investigate killings and woundings. The evidence is unequivocal regarding the innocence of the deceased and wounded. There is no evidence whatsoever that they were armed or acted in a manner that could be perceived as a threat to the security services.”

Two of the New Lodge Six (James Sloan, James McCann) were killed by the UDA outside a bar and four (Tony ‘TC’ Campbell, Ambrose Hardy, Brendan Maguire, John Loughran) were among the crowd that gathered, killed by British Army snipers from their positions on top of the flats, using night-vision sights, February 3rd-4th, 1973. Sinn Féin politician Gerry Kelly spoke at the launch.

For the previous version, see M02410.

Donore Court, Belfast.

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Ardoyne Youth Club

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Here are details of the Ardoyne Youth Club mural at McCorry House. It shows the lives of young people past (in the mills) and present (on their mobile devices).

For a wide shot, see M10230.

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Give Us R Future

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“We dont want the past”. A chronicle of the Troubles in Ardoyne: Orange marches, IRA shows of strength, rioting, plastic bullets, the blanket protest, funerals, vigilantism, Holy Cross.

Three close-ups (from 2014) are included below:
Both the satellite dish and the lodge-member in the board sport an orange collar(ette).
A soldier (or possibly a paramilitary) with a rifle and gas-mask  squats against a wall while another stands behind him with a baton.
Rioters under the word “freedom” on a wall and a soldier with plastic bullets. 

For the mural when new, see J1908. The board began life in colour, but, as can be seen from the wide shot below, has now faded mostly to black and white.

Jamaica Way, Ardoyne, north Belfast.

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Cú Chulaınn And Queen Maeve

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Ulster hero Cú Chulaınn and Queen Maeve of Connacht, on Jamaica Road, Ardoyne, still without its third panel.

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