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A Changing Face

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2014-02-17 ChangingFaces+

This board on the Cupar Way “peace” line is a project young people in the Impact Training train (part of the Greater Shankill Partnership) concerning murals over the years. Its face has been changed by hundreds of messages and signatures of visitors from all over the world.

“The Changing Faces artwork is a project that has been undertaken by a group of young people from Impact Training . They looked to their surrounding area where they explored and documented how it appears in 2010. What is the Shankill? What does it look like and what does it mean to youth culture now? Murals have been something that has been prevalent in the community for many years. Times change, opinions soften and people can begin to build a changing face.”

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Deconstructions

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This emic (web) paste-up, which he titles ‘Deconstructions’, is on Rosemary Street at the junction with Lombard Street in the city centre.

Previously by emic: CameraMan (2013) | Through The Fog (2012)

Previously: A Leo & Pipo sticker in Paris

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Famine Window

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Above is a detail from, and below is the whole of, a stained glass window in Belfast City Hall commemorating emigration and the great hunger, commonly known as “the famine”. The piece is by Stephen Calderwood of GlassMarque. The window shows a sailing vessel and the coast of north America, scenes of destitution, Clifton House (home to the Belfast Charitable Society, on Clifton Street), and a potato harvest.

Friar’s Bush and Clifton Street graveyards both contain the remains of people in died in the famine (and in cholera epidemics).

Previously: One Big Union (stained glass in City Hall) | White Line (stained glass in the Cultúrlann)

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Our Youth, Our Future

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“Our youth, out culture, our community, our future”. Above is a new Ross Road mural celebrating gaelic games (football, hurling, and handball) and in particular Michael Davitt’s (green, white, and gold strip) and Sean MacDermott’s (yellow with green stripe) GAA/CLG clubs. The banner on the low wall is bookended by images of St. Peter’s cathedral and the fountain in Dunville Park, which are detailed below.

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Defending The Community

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This (ninth) panel shows UDA paramilitaries (the UVF was formed in 1965, the UDA in 1971) standing guard in front of a barricade of sand-bags.

One of fourteen panels in Thorndyke Street, east Belfast. For a list of entries for each panel, see East Belfast Historical And Cultural Society.

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Slowly Those Who Create The Wealth Of The World Are Permitted To Share It

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2014-02-16 Labor+

This board on the Cupar Way “peace” line at the North Howard Street gates features a quote by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, “the most dangerous woman in America” for her labour organizing: Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it – The future is in labor’s strong, rough hands.” Wide shot below.

The two community boards to the right were featured previously: What Divides Us.

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Resistance Is Not Terrorism

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Éırígí (web) support for the PFLP (Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine – WP). For more on the “skyjacker” Leila Khaled, see the mural featuring her in Hugo Street.

Ludlow Square, Belfast.

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Fernhill House

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This image of Fernhill House is to be found on the wall of the community centre on the Forthriver Road; the house itself stands not far away on the other side of Glencairn park. Below is a video about the museum that was in the house; a video about the history of the house and grounds, which served as a training grounds for the west Belfast Volunteers and UVF at the time of the Ulster Covenant and WWI, is also available.

Previously: A dilapidated Fernhill in 2012 | Revived in 2013 for the UVF anniversary.

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The Wheelchair Monologues

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Above is an advertising hoarding (this one is at the junction of the Antrim and Limestone Roads) for an Irish-language one-man show entitled “The Wheelchair Monologues” by Gearóıd Ó Caırealláın, director of the Cultúrlann and Irish-language activist, about the stroke (in 2006) that has left him paralyzed on his left side. Below is a detail from the boards that surrounded the Cultúrlann during its renovation.

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Child’s Play

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“Play is the highest form of research – Albert Einstein.” The quote appears to be a common (mis-)attribution.

This is a new board celebrating the play of children, with a UDA/UFF mural in the background. The artist is Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded.com).

Previously by Ed in the lower Shankill: a full-sized Play mural.

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