The gunman on the left of the first mural at Freedom Corner (see previously) has been painted out. The scroll on the right reads “For as long as one hundred of us remain alive we shall never in anyway consent to submit to the Irish for it’s not for glory, honour or riches we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life – U.D.A./U.F.F”
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Many of the characters in this (unfinished) Ballybeen mural appear to be from The Lord Of The Rings but there is also the piper featured above.
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Shovelling coal in the glow of a fire. Street art by Verz (Fb) on the Holland Drive side of The Stoker’s Halt (web) in east Belfast.
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X04228 X04229 Reproduces a Soviet-era poster that includes Russian to the effect of “5 years [plan] in 4 – do it!”
“Bangor’s Finest (Fb)” the Pride of Whitehill Flute Band marks its 40th anniversary (1976-2016) with a mural and two small boards dedicated to Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers in WWI: “When you go home, tell them of us and say “For your tomorrow we gave our today.” “They fought together as brothers-in-arms, they died together and now they sleep side-by-side. To them we have a solemn obligation.”
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Graffiti in Beverley Street asking people to “Look up! Wake up! Speak up!” on the issue of chemtrails (WP), which are a government conspiracy and the cause of “Alzheimers”, “dimensa [sic]”, “ADHD” and colony collapse: “No bees, no harvest, no people.”
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Work by emic (Eoin McGinn Fb | Web |Tw) in south Belfast with some of the 3-D brickwork seen previously in Seeing Things. There are even colour patches on the inside of the open electrical box. Previously in electrical-box-inclusion: ADW’s Keep Her Lit.
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Cromac Wood Court is home to a housing development – Hong Ling Gardens – aimed at Chinese people over 55. The street sign is thus in English, Chinese, and – because we’re in the Markets area – Irish: Cúırt Choıll Chromóıg.
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A UFF flag flies outside the Newtownards courthouse in Regent Street.
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The Ulster Tower at Thiepval “is dedicated to the glory of God in grateful memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the 36th (Ulster) Division and of the sons of Ulster in other forces who laid down their lives in the Great War, and of all their comrades-in-arms who, by divine grace, were spared to testify to their glorious deeds.” The boards are next to Warszawiacy Berlinowi.
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This is a pro-Palestine stencil off New Lodge Road with a quote from hunger striker Mawan Barghouti (featured previously in an Ardoyne board). The emblem of the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine is in the lower right.
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