Irish labour leader James (Jim) Larkin in Donegall Street Place (the entry below the John Hewitt) adorned with an G8 protest placard. Larkin organised strikes in Belfast in 1907 (WP). According to the antig8protest twitter feed, a festival is being put on in Belfast to rival the G8 meeting in Enniskillen (see previously: Putting On The Ritz | G8 Cover-Up).
The pose is based on the (unattributed) image shown last, below.
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This street art is on a wall/fence that runs right through the middle of Alexandra Park, separating the loyalist Mountcollyer and republican Newington neighbourhoods. The ‘History Comes Alive’ triptych is on the nationalist side.
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This graffiti at the junction of Hawthorn Street/Sráıd na Sceıthe and Cavendish Road exulting in the death of Margaret Thatcher is just below a board memorialising the three IRA members killed in Gibraltar (one of whom, Dan McCann, lived in the street). (Previously: Ding Dong | Thatcherism | The Real Criminal | Rot In Hell | Rust In Peace)
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X01096 gibraltar, vol: mairead farrell sean savage dan mccann executed by the british s.a.s. 6th march 1988; oh! cold march winds that pierce the dark you cry in aged tones for souls of folk you’ve brought to god but still you bear the moans oh! weeping winds this lonely night my mother’s heart is sore lord of all breathe freedom’s breath that she may weep no more! bobby sands
Planet Earths form the corner-pieces for the Celtic knot-work on this multi-cultural mural in Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá, Béal Feırste.
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The word “dream” in multiple languages around 40 images of children – 8 each in five panels on Oxford Street. This is the first/left-most one.
By Rita Duffy on Oxford Street, Belfast.
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The Angry Birds puzzle game (on mobile devices and on Facebook) is a smash hit for Finnish game developers Rovio (WP) and is now a part of popular culture, including this take-off on the Comber Walkway – angry burners.
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A fourth piece from Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close, a short, dead-end, street in Ard Eoın/Ardoyne. “In memory of our friends and comrades. This memorial is dedicated to all those Irish Republicans who fought in the struggle for Irish freedom and in the defence of this community in our time of need. The memorial honours their courage and dedication to the cause of Irish freedom. Ar dheıs Dé go raıbh a n-anam.”
See also Bone Memorial | Marie Le Bonn
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X01068 Hugo Wilkinson, Terry Murphy, Paul Watson, Jim McLaughlin, Richard McIlkenny, Jake McGowan, Patsy Quinn, Liam Mulholland, Francis O’Neill, Sean Delaney, Carmel Cahoon, Christine Beattie, Geraldine Rice, Anthony McIlkenny, Joey Saunders, Danny Mullan, Tony Molloy, Seamus Rice, Eamon McAllister, Gerry McAllister, John Bateson, John Barnes, Jim Floyd. With images of the prisons Armagh, Long Kesh H-Blocks, Magilligan, Long Kesh cages, HMS Maidstone, Portlaoise, Wormwood Scubs, Crumlin Road.
A mural in east Belfast listing local players who have played for Rangers, in Glasgow, Scotland. Featured in the centre is S. English, who scored 72 goals in 81 appearances, including 44 in the 1931-1932 season. Additional player plaques have been added since 2008, as well as the dedication in the lower right corner: “In memory of Moses McNeill, a teenage boy of Ulster-Scots stock & his brothers and friends who in 1872 formed a football team in Glasgow that today is known around the world as the Rangers Football Club “.
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X01089 we are the people in memory of moses mcneil a teenage boy of ulster-scots stock & his brothers and friends who in 1872 formed a football team in Glasgow that today is known around the world as the rangers football club, 50 title
Religious mural somewhere in the ?lower? Shankill. Please get in touch if you know the precise location.
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Shown is a small memorial garden in Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close. There is no record at all, on-line at least, of a Marie Le Bonn. “Marrowbone” is sometimes thought to be a corruption of “Marie Le Bone” (and “Marylebone” in London is derived from the church of St Mary’s on the bourne (stream) (WP)) but a more likely derivation, given the location, is Machaıre Botháın, the plain of the (shepherd’s) hut. But Mary The Good is more in keeping with the shrine.
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Extramural Activity 