Irish people, perhaps fleeing the Great Hunger, board a ship to emigrate to the United States.
The mural was seen in 1999 and dates to 1995 – the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger.
Oakman Street, Belfast.
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“Acknowledge each other and appreciate difference.” “The cycles of life continues [sic]. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So let’s bring our minds together as one and give greetings and thanks to each other as people. Respect.”
“Téann rothaí mór an tsaoıl thart go fóıll. Tugadh an dualgas dúınn máıreachtáıl ı gcothromaíocht agus ı gcuıbheas lena chéıle agus le gach neach boe. Anoıs tabharfar ár n-ıntınn le chéıle mar aon ıntınn agus tabharfaımıs beannachtaí agus buíochas dá chéıle mar chomhdhaoıne. Meas” With sponsorship from Blackie River Community and Belfast City Council.
The artist himself is featured.
Ascaıll Ard na bhFeá, Beechmount, west Belfast.
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“Go to the zebra [crossing] if you can and wait for the lollipop man.” “Don’t be a [clown], slow down!”
Public safety mural in Beechmount Avenue/Ascaill Ard na bhFeá, Belfast
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“Strong is what we make each other until we are strong together.” Women in struggle, (clockwise) banging binlids, undergoing strip searches, protesting internment, victims of plastic bullets (Julie Livingstone), fighting in Cumann Na mBan. On the right are the astrological symbol for woman and the republican symbol of “Saoirse” with the green star and fist. With “Free Marian Price” graffiti.
Dungloe Crescent, Lenadoon, Belfast
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“4,400 Palestinian political prisoners, 310 administrative detention. No to Israeli administrative detention! Hunger strike!” with portraits of Hanna Shalabi and Khadner Adnan. Adnan went on strike to protest his violent arrest and interrogation, and detention without trial (“administrative detention”); he reached a deal after 66 days (BBC). Shalabi went on hunger strike to protest her detention without trial; she reached a deal and ended the strike after 43 days (The World). Both were alleged to be members of Islamic Jihad.
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The impending resurrection of Titanic looms overhead, a new and shiny “reason to visit Belfast” in contrast with the boarded up houses on Lawnbrook Avenue.
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Linfield FC is a south-Belfast soccer club. The 1961-1962 season is one of two seven-trophy seasons in the club’s history, the first being 40 years previously in 1921-1922 (WP).
Vanguard Bears is a Rangers supporters club.
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“End forced strip searches, end internment [at] Maghaberry concentration camp”. Republican prisoners are held in the Roe House at Maghaberry. Several republican prisoners (as many as five) are conducting a “dirty protest” in response to conditions and treatment, including integration with loyalist prisoners (Irish Echo | BBC). The green ribbon as an emblem goes back to the campaign after the ceasefire to release POWs – here is a mural from 1995.
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Jesus Of Nazareth with a crown of thorns – a stencil of unknown provenance at the shops next to the Andersonstown Iceland (long ago the Busy Bee).
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IRA volunteer Francis Liggett was shot by the British Army in January 1973 as he attempted to rob the Royal. One of the images of Gerry Adams in paramilitary beret comes from Liggett’s funeral. Paddy Brady was a Sınn Féın activist shot in 1984 at his work by the UFF (Sutton). Both were from the St James’s area of west Belfast. Their portraits are on either side of Éıre personified. The verses are from Bobby Sands’s poem Weeping Winds.
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