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Reinstated

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2015-01-19 NugentBoard+

Keiran Nugent (and Brendan Hughes) has been returned to the left-most spot on the International Wall.

This new board is closely based on the mural (shown in Belfast’s Infamous Prison) which was painted over in October in advance of the November 9th non-binding referendum in Catalonia (see Votes About Votes; the yellow background and some of the lettering from the Catalonia mural can still be seen in the image above). Nugent and Maıréad Farrell were then included in the hunger-strikers mural further down the wall: see I’ll Wear No Convict’s Uniform and Peace With Justice.

New in this version is the inclusion of a reference to the women’s protest in Armagh prison; one of the figures standing in front of the H/A holds the ‘Thatcher – Wanted for murder and torture of Irish prisoners’ poster that previously filled the top-left corner.

For close-ups, see H & A.

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Rebel Sunday

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2014-12-10 RebelSunday+

Under a tricolour flying from the roof of the Rock Bar on the Falls, in green, white, and orange: “Rebel Sunday – The Rock Bar – Every Sunday – From 6 PM”

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We Shall Not Sleep

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2014-10-20 ShankillGraveWWI+

Three wraiths of dead WWI soldiers – one with its head wrapped in a bandage – rise from the grave to issue a final edict: Take up our quarrel with the foe; to you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep though poppies grow in Flanders’ fields.

For another WWI memorial in Shankill Graveyard see The Great War.

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Under Foot

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Stencil on the Falls Road pavement: “End Israeli genocide in Palestine”. For the same message on the New Lodge flats see End The Genocide In Gaza and at Free Derry corner: You Are Now Entering Free Gaza.

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Summer In The City

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2014-09-15 SpiersPlaceClose+

Above and below is the scene at the end of summer in the courtyard of the Rex Bar – bunting and bouquets join the flags of the home nations and various boards celebrating the queen’s diamond jubilee and commemorating the 36th Ulster division “who selflessly gave their lives for King and county at the battle of the Somme”. The new boards (on the left hand side of the wide shot) were featured previously in The Last Post, along with the Union flag of The People’s Army. For the same scene ten years previously, see Betting Office.

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Magic Mountain

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2014-11-19 PrincessesDisney+

Here is a final image from the new wall of Disney characters in the Slıabh Dubh estate. (See previously: Look Behind You | If The Shoe Fits.) On Aladdin‘s magic carpet we have Princess Jasmine, Abu the monkey, and Iago the parrot, while on the stairs is Esmerelda (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and between them is The Owl from Sleeping Beauty. At the bottom we have Minnie Mouse, Figaro (from Pinocchio and also Minnie’s pet cat), and Daisy Duck.

Two wide shots can be found below. The first shows the entirety of the wall, the second shows (some of) the adjacent wall of superheroes. All 11 current Disney princesses are included, as well as the sisters Elsa and Anna from Frozen.

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They May Kill The Revolutionary

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2014-09-29 NorglenDetail+2

“… but not the revolution.” Turf Lodge mural (shown in full below) showing two armed volunteers (one female, one male) with portraits of eleven others. See previously: Che Guevara Lynch

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Scootering Pig

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2014-07-02 PinkPig+

Here is another image of the scootering pig, spotted previously (Unseen Miracles) on the Springfield Road next to the head of Christ, and now to be found on the Cupar Way “peace” line.

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Continuity Not Compromise

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2014-12-17 CIRAFalls+

The first image, above, shows a Continuity IRA (CIRA) stencil over what appears to be a ‘support Maghaberry POWs’ poster outside the West Belfast Partnership/Páırtíocht Iarthar Bhéal Feırste offices on the Falls Road (see the third image, below, for a wide shot). The second, below, claims that Waterford Street/Sráıd Phort Láırge is CIRA GHQ – general head-quarters.

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If The Shoe Fits

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2014-11-19 PrincessesCinderella+

At all of 19 years old, Cinderella on the stairs holds rank over her younger stable-mates in this panel from the ‘Disney Princesses’ mural in the Slıabh Dubh estate. (Among the Disney court, only Frozen‘s Elsa is older, at 21, though at the time of writing she is not officially a Disney Princess. Snow White was 14.) From left to right, the princesses and their familiars shown are: Fa Mulan, Aurora (from Sleeping Beauty), Belle (from Beauty And The Beast), Tiana (from The Princess And The Frog),Max (the dog from Little Mermaid), and the two Cinderella mice, Jaq and Gus.

For images of Ariel, Snow White and the wicked witch, and Anna from Frozen, see Look Behind You!

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