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Victory To The Republican Prisoners

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Victory to the republican political prisoners from across the ages – “H-Block to Maghaberry” – but also from Ireland to Palestine.

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Love Bug

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Street art by Leighoops (ig) for HTN2021. See also Space Bug, painted in August (of 2021) at Artcetera.

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Simulation Is The Future

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Floppy disks for PCs running Explorer and vintage Macintoshes by Zippy (ig) in Kent Street, Belfast, for HTN2021.

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Village Green Preservation Society

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Part of the most recent development of the upper streets in the Village was not to rebuild the two rows on houses on Ebor and Nubia/Moltke streets and in their place construct a park – the Village Green – and playground. This new board on the outside railings make the park a “community park of remembrance” for WWI, showing an Ulster Banner with a Union Flag in the canton. There was formerly on this site an image of Thiepval Tower and a UVF stone.

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EU Hands Off Ulster

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A late addition to the placards from Unionists Against NI Protocol (Fb) in the Village area of Belfast: EU – hands off Ulster, beneath an Israeli flag. Previously: How Is Freedom Measured? | There Is No Union Without NI | We Continue The Fight

Also Belfast Agreement Null And Void | Markethill Stands Up | Still Anti-GFA

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Guiding Light

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“This site housed the former Mid Donegall Road Bonfire for over two decades, until the expansion and development of the surrounding area including the City Hospital meant that it was no longer viable for a bonfire to remain on this site. Greater Village Regeneration Trust, through its work with The Health Trust, who own the site, and the local community, including the local bonfire builders wanted to have something on the site that could benefit the whole community and agreement was given for it to be transformed into the garden that is here today. Local Artist Johnny [sic] McKerr worked alongside Greater Village Regeneration Trust and the local community and this artwork was designed to depict and celebrate the heritage, history and culture which the people of this area are extremely proud of.”

The info board includes a photograph of the bonfire spilling out towards the car-park for the City. The other image is a photograph from the Peter Moloney Collection, used without permission, and photoshopped to add “DRL” – Donegall Road Loyalists.

According to Eddie Kelly of the GVRT, Carrickfergus castle is included because “This is where King William landed, and the annual bonfire is a symbol of a beacon lit across the coast to guide him” (Belfast Live).

Painted by JMK/Jonny McKerr (tw) at Coolfin St on Donegall Rd.

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