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No Justice

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Mervyn and Rosaleen McDonald were Catholics living in the mixed Longlands area of Newtownabbey when they were visited by “UFF loyalist assassins” and shot dead in front of their two young children. The killings are described in most detail in Jack Holland’s Too Long A Sacrifice, which contains an interview with the gunman and the claim that the unit had access to RUC files (p. 94). They are buried in Milltown Cemetery (see final image).

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Banana Republic

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Rob Hilken (web | tw | inst) – artist and NI manager for Visual Arts Ireland – painted a load of bananas for Culture Night/Hit The North 2017.

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The Freedom Of Others

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“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” (Nelson Mandela) Nobel peace prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s portrait has been x-ed out on the Frederick Douglass mural on Northumberland Street, in protest at her failure to speak out, from her position as Myanmar’s State Counsellor, against the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya population by the Myanmar military. For images of the full mural, see Liberating Minds (and for John Lewis’s addition at the expense of Rosie The Riveter, see As I Would Not Be A Slave, So I Would Not Be A Master).

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Drowning In Paint

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Here is Kev Largey’s (KVLR web) piece for CNB/HTN17, next to the John Peel mural in Commercial Court.

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For God And Ulster

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The members of the anti-Home Rule ‘Ulster Volunteers’, formed in 1912, joined the 16th and 36th divisions at the onset of WWI. The emblem of the Ulster Volunteers is on the right (the emblem of the 36th is on the left). The same emblem was used in 1966 when the modern UVF was founded. See also South Belfast Volunteers | A Hive Of Glass | Village UVF | Welcome To The Village.

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Decision, Decisions

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19-year-old Caoilfhinn Hanton from Tramore (inst) spray-painted this representation of a dilemma familiar to many: what to get from the take-away – curry 1/2 n /1/2 or pastie bap?

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I Owe My Allegiance To The Working Class

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Seamus Costello fought for the IRA during the Border Campaign and was interned in the Curragh for two years. He stayed with the Officials during the split, but was driven out in 1974 and formed the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the INLA. He was shot in 1977. (WP)

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Aıslıng Ghéar

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This (2017) summer the Irish-language theatre company Aıslıng Ghéar (web | Fb | tw) celebrated its twentieth anniversary “ag cur an dráma sa Ghaeılge le 20 blıaın”.

Iveagh Parade, west Belfast

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Headaches

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Dublin artist ACHES (inst) came north for Culture Night/Hit The North last month and painted this tricoloured female face in Kent Street.

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Follow, Follow

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Footballer Billy Simpson moved from Linfield to Rangers in 1950 and over the course of nine years and 239 appearances scored 163 goals. He also scored the winner for Northern Ireland against England in 1957. Simpson died in January of this year (2017) and is remembered by this board outside the Supporters’ Club in Barrington Street, south Belfast. Other boards include a celebration of Rangers’ European Cup Winners’ Cup win in 1972 over Dynamo Moscow in Camp Nou, Barcelona.

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