Today is officially the last day to catch the Royal Ulster Academy Of Art’s Art In The City exhibition of paintings on wall around Belfast. Shown here is Neil Shawcross’s Willie James Hayes, The Strawman 1980 which is hanging in Gordon Street.
Previously: Dan Dowling’s Big Daddy’s Funeral
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Work by Veronica Wallis as part of the Royal Ulster Academy Of Art’s Art In The City exhibition of work on walls around Belfast city centre. This one is in Hill Street.
Previously from the exhibition: Dan Dowling’s Big Daddy’s Funeral
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A lobster is removed from the pot and is about to be served. Street art by Glasgow-based SMUG (Insta) for Culture Night Belfast 2016.
Previously: Mussen Cortège
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Complementing the images from Ulster Tower Street, here are images of the new commemorative boards and their blue backgrounds. The main board features Ulster Tower at Thiepval with a list of battles that the 36th (Ulster) Division was involved in.
The smaller board on the side-wall features a poem from local children: “The Great War took a lot of Pray/It’s hard to say w[h]ere all these brave men lay/A lot of souls still waiting to be found/Buried deep below the ground.//In the fields w[h]ere the bright red poppies grow/Stood men so brave of fight and foe/Some men so young they just didn’t know/A journey with friends they all wanted to go.// When they got there what a different tail [tale] they did tell/Many letters home describing it as hell/Young men put to front to fight/We can only imagine the awful sight.//Fighting beside their mate to keep Britain great/And we still remember them till this date/Nearly one hundred years on/A lot of these great men have gone/Forget them we will not as a thought is not a lot.”
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For the anniversary of the Battle Of Albert and the start of the Battle Of The Somme, Tower Street in east Belfast became Ulster Tower Street and residents reproduced the Western Front, with huts of sandbags, canvas coverings for all the front walls, and headlines from the News Letter (“Ulster’s Sacrifice”) and Times (“Britain At War”) of the period. Images of the new murals can be found in A Thought Is Not A Lot.
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As part of the Poppy Trail, boards bearing the names, ages, addresses, and service units of Belfast casualties during WWI have been erected on walls and lampposts near their homes. Above: William Bloomer from Matilda Street in south Belfast. Below: Thomas Magowan from Tower Street in east Belfast.
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In the Star Wars universe, the Krayt Dragon (or Kryat Dragon, as artist Andy Council spells it) lives on Tatooine, the home planet of Anakin and Luke Skywalker. It is rendered here in the buildings of Cloud City above Bespin, which was governed by Lando Calrissian in the “first” Star Wars (Episode IV).
Previously by Andy Council: Belfast City Phoenix
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A pigeon moves in to investigate the discarded ice cream from davidcreative (David McClelland)’s piece One Love for CNB16/HTN.
Update: “enhanced” by NIC
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The Ulster Special Constabulary or B-Specials existed from 1920 to 1970; it was disbanded after being used for riot control in The Battle Of The Bogside. The Ulster Defence Regiment (which was under military control and was, as the mural notes, the largest infantry in the British Army) existed from 1970 until 1992, when it was merged with the Royal Irish Rangers.
From left to right: For Freedom Alone | As Long As 100 Of Us Remain Alive | Loyalist East Belfast | The Strangest Victory In All History | Ulster’s Past Defenders | Nationality is included in Loyalist East Belfast | Ulster’s Present Defenders | Freedom Corner
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