Belfast

The RIC Murder Gang

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

One RIC member was killed and another wounded outside the Beehive Bar in a shoot-out with IRA men in September 1920. In reprisal, County Inspector Harrison and his men killed Vol. Ned Trodden, Vol. Sean Gaynor, and Sean McFadden (Rısteard Ó Murchú). The gang, under Detective Inspector Nixon, would go on to kill more Catholics in 1921 and in 1922 commit the McMahon killings and the Arnon Street killings, in each of which 6 people died.

On the right is a small board on “political policing”: “Agents exposed. Shoot-to-kill. Spying. Cover-ups. Collusion. Plastic Bullets. Sectarian policing. Poisoning peace process.”

Northumberland Street, west Belfast

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00165

One Big Union

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The red hand of Ulster serves as the emblem of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, founded by Jim Larkin in 1909. It was led by James Connolly from 1914 to 1916. Winifred Carney, from Bangor, founded the Irish Textile Workers’ Union in Belfast in 1912 and was personal secretary to Connolly. A border of rope frames the main image of carters working on the docks, above.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00162

View From The Graveyard

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here are two image of murals on the Whiterock Road taken from City Cemetery. Of the pair in the bottom image, the one on the left is to Keven Lynch (see M02999); the one on the right is against plastic bullets and dates back to 1995 (see M01360).

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00157 X00159

Robert Dougan

Extramural Activity2 Comments

South Belfast UDA commander Robert Dougan killed by the IRA on February 10th, 1998 while sitting in a car outside Balmoral Textiles in Dunmurry, two months before the Good Friday Agreement was signed. “Murdered by the enemies 10th Feburary [sic] 1998. In memory of our fallen comrade – gone but not forgotten. Quis separabit.”

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00193

A New Look For Us

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This is the scene at the junction of Wellwood Street and Sandy Row. On the northern side, a sofa and pallets have been dumped against the remaining half of the UVF mural (see C01427 for the whole thing), while on the southern side, the hoardings on the corner have been covered in UFF flags and “Kill all taigs” graffiti. The site behind them would remain vacant until 2014.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00183 X00185 X00191

Charter Youth Club/Sandy Row Womans Group

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a complete set of the nine panels on Blythe Street, five from the Charter Youth Club, four from the Sandy Row Womans Group. The Womans Group/Women’s Group panels were featured in more detail in Mr Saturday Night and Those Days Are Gone.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00204 X00205 X00207 X00206 X00208 X00211 X00212 X00214 X00215 X00216 X00217

Sandy Row Sporting Heroes

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The sporting heroes range from boxers in the Sandy Row Boxing Club to Linfield and Northern Ireland football players.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00222

The Schools Of Sandy Row

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The schools of Sandy Row (in the third image) are Blythefield Primary (featured in the other images), Mabel Street School, National School, Linfield Junior Public Elementary School, and Workman’s School.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00224 X00221 X00220 X00223 Blythe St

George Best 1946-2005

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The career – both domestic (Manchester United) and international (Northern Ireland) – of soccer icon George Best is on display in this Sandy Row mural.

Blythe Street, south Belfast.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00196 Blythe St

The Rights Of Every Child

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Whoever we are, wherever we live, these rights belong to all children under the sun and the moon and the stars, whether we live in cities or towns or villages or in the mountains or valleys or deserts or forests or jungles. Anywhere and everywhere in the big wide world these are the rights of every child.” No war, poverty, or spoils. Signposts mark the way to Ofer Prison Camp in the West Bank and Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Islandbawn Street, Belfast.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2007 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X00155