Belfast

Vault Guard Cat

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Keeping an eye on the courtyard of Vault HQ (web | tw | ig) in Tower Street, a majestic tiger by Friz (web | tw | ig). The tiger is in the third spot. FGB’s raspberry man is in the first spot. Cherries by unknown artist in the fourth; the fifth spot is “25 Tower Street” by Ed Reynolds. The wide shot shows the five panels plus Show Some Love and FGB’s Build Communities. “Yes Big Lad” and the flower tribute to Ash are on the other side of the carpark, near the road.

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Always Remember

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Sandy Row Marching Band Supplies (Fb) has this Somme commemoration flag in a number of variations (“South Belfast”, “Loyal Carrick”, etc). Perhaps the “West Belfast” version has sold out, as this “North Belfast” flag is actually flying along Cupar Way in the middle Shankill.

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Drawing A Line In The Sea

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Striped “No Irish Sea border” stickers on the Shankill Road, Belfast, protesting the NI Protocol that is part of the UK’s “Brexit” from the EU.

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Stag Inn Shooting

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A long series of tit-for-tat shootings of pubs and clubs continued into the summer of 1976, with attacks on the Chlorane (June 5th), Walkers (June 25th), the Ramble (July 2nd), the Whitefort (July 29th), and then, on the 30th, The Stag at Shaws Bridge, Belfast, by the Republican Action Force (PIRA) (Sutton). John McCleave, John McKay, and James “Jimmy” Doherty died on the night of the attack, and Thompson McCreight died of his wounds nine days later. The memorial to them – “erected by the local communities” – is on Milltown Road, next to the Dreamscheme (web) mural.

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Mind Is Your Only Ruler

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Spotted in the car-park of the Dunnes on the Ormeau Road/Annadale embankment: “Free your mind – foghlaım Gaeılge [learn Irish]”.

Previously: Díchoılínıgh D’Intınn [Decolonise Your Mind] | If Nothing Is Free Are We

(Thanks to RMcC for the tip-off.)

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An Old Song Re-Sung

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“Loyalist Ballysillan says NO! to Irish Sea border.” The Ulster Banner merges with the Union Flag, and a Northern Ireland floating free of the south is cradled by Britain. (Compare with Give And Take from last week.)

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Will This Work For You?

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“A new Ireland will work for you”, whoever you are. The recent Sınn Féın advertising campaign features generic figures straight from central casting, perhaps designed to offend absolutely no one. The locations are in north and west Belfast.

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Let’s Build A Love Island

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Hagan Homes’s (web) advertising for its new “Thirty Eight North” development on Lawnbrook riffs on popular culture: below, a version of Donald Trump’s slogan; above, an (inadvertently political) homage to TV reality show Love Island.

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Give And Take

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“Northern Ireland is not the EU’s to take, nor England’s to give. We will defend our birthright!” This sticker has been all over north Belfast (and perhaps beyond). Although Northern Ireland is shown as a Union flag, Britain is notably absent, consistent with the discontent expressed by “nor England’s to give”. Northern Ireland is shown only in relation to the rest of island, fleeing a Euro-member Ireland.

For the mural in the second image, see 100 Years Of Conflict.

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Prolonged Exposure Hierarchy

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MASH and the TMN crew are done with Subset’s (tw) Colour Therapy in Kent Street carpark. The first image is from February, the second from September.

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