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Between The Crosses

2015-04-212018-09-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This mural in Carrick has a 3D element: 312 wood poppies were hand-painted and attached to the wall, one for each local man who did not return. By artist Gary Orr. Full shot below.

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text: X02501 X02502 Carrick Council, Boots Chemists, Sandra Pyper Ltd, Rustic Wood, Dalaradia, Gary’s Menswear, Robert Stewart at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

Till Labour Knows No Master

2013-10-252015-11-06Extramural Activity1 Comment

“There can be no dignity in labour, till labour knows no master.” The statue of Jim Larkin in Donegall Street Place has been augmented with a massive mural celebrating the many unions which have membership in Ireland. 2013 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Dublin lock-out, which ran from August 1913 to January 1914. The images below show a close-up of the statue (which was previously featured sporting a placard), three female figures in the border to the right of Larkin (Winifred Carney, Inez McCormack, and Betty Sinclair?) and finally, the plans for the piece, which were hanging on the left-hand wall prior to completion.

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text: X01370 X01368 X01369 X01325 An Injury To One Is An Injury To All ictu tssa iboa nasuwt atl ucu nuj journalists peace work progress said joe what they forgot to kill went on to organise break the connection with capitalism titanic disaster great loss of life gmb siptu services industrial professional technical i.n.t.o. irish national teachers organisation equity arts means jobs fire brigade ucatt serving youth against racism protect public services education union campaign usdaw workers together hands off my mate la révolution prolétairienne communication we want bread and roses too nipsa pcsc defending jobs and services stronger together congress play for your side join your trade union solidarity forever H&W a better and fairer way unions northern committee

Hope Lost

2013-09-022015-11-04Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Above is a colouful metal-worked piece bolted to the “peace” line on Cupar Way, celebrating “Shankill Ingenuity” while commemorating the lives lost on Titanic.

If you know the importance of the number/date ‘1140’, please leave a comment.

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text: X01288 families 1140 1912 harland and wolff

All Our Dead

2013-05-062018-06-28Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

In addition to three plaques, a wrought-iron head-piece, multiple flag-pole holders and railings fencing in a small area (which includes an encased figure of Jesus, at right), this mural in Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close in Ardoyne uses painted discs for each of the twelve hunger strikers (the ten in Long Kesh 1981 and two from the 70s in English prisons, Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg – the twelve also featured in Derry’s Spirit Of Freedom mural), rather than painting their likenesses directly onto the wall. The items above the mural and the Sacred Heart statue in a glass case are new, compared to 2010.

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text: X01065 [X00354] In Loving Memory Of All Our Dead

erin go bragh this plaque is dedicated to those people who showed courage in face of adversity by giving aid shelter and support in the defence of the area their dedication and determination during those difficult years will never be forgotten they shall always be held in the highest esteem by a grateful community Let our revenge be the laughter of our children

Let there be no bitterness on my behalf to achieve a united Ireland.

With many thanks to the people of the bone greater bone who contributed to this mural

Euro-pa

2013-02-242015-10-26Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Local readers will hopefully be able to help identify the people (and the horse, and the crab on a fishing line) staying in the Europa Hotel, as depicted in a new (late 2012) board/construction at the Duke Of York. Artist Ciaran Gallagher has a collection of pictures of the piece being constructed and installed.

According to WP, the Europa was bombed 28 times during the Troubles (which would explain the damage and the abseiling paramilitary on the left?), and Bill and Hillary Clinton’s entourage took up 110 of the 240 rooms when they stayed at the Europa hotel in 1995. In the foreground, George Best balances a ball bearing the words, “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” Is there some particular reason why the “E” is the euro sign?

Previously from the Duke Of York: Big Brother Is Watching. Below is a wide shot of the whole.

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Big Brother

2013-01-232015-10-25Extramural Activity1 Comment

A 3-D/plane-breaking board/collage from the courtyard of the Duke Of York, featuring King Kong on the Empire State building (1933), Atlas (Metropolis 1927), a zombie (also from Metropolis?), riot police controlled by a puppet-master, Hokusai’s Great Wave Of Kanagawa 1830, WWI biplanes, a steamer/cruise-ship with searchlight? and something that looks like the Giant’s causeway?? (Leave a comment if you can correct these, or recognise the car with L plates (Death Proof 2007 – thanks Bob) or Hollister on the document folder.)

2013-02 Update: Artists Ciaran Gallagher and Kathryn Bannister have a gallery of pictures of the piece being constructed and installed. The piece, they say, is inspired by “classics of the silver screen” and was part of Culture Night 2011.

Castlereagh Street Shipyard Workers

2012-12-292015-10-24Extramural Activity1 Comment

A board at the top of Castlereagh Street listing residents of the street who worked in 1911 on the Titanic and Olympic. With plane-breaking lifeboats and sponsorship from Belfast City Council (see Daniela Balmaverde’s page on the project), the Department for Social Development and the Titanic Foundation.

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Wide show below ….

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text: X00763 X00764 boiler maker plater iron turner shipyard marine engineer draughtsman smith fitter helper, carpenter apprentice joiner moulder chief harbour board clear storekeeper’s office, ropemaker, labourer, leighton cunningham, william horsly, william nelson, francis gregson, james taylor, robert keenan, john miller, joseph atkinson, john porter, william boyd, thomas finney, joseph walker, joseph simpson, sidney ham, archibald hutchinson, andrew mulgrew, james brown, robert dobson, robert simpson, john mccurley, william roy, charles cameron, john m. murray, john lapidge, william horsly (again?), thomas maitland, thomas valentine, alexander mccallum, thomas henderson, george moody, ?jack? kennedy, william wise, edward thomson, william henry ?adison?, bartholemew ivory, john campbell, james miller

Nollaig Shona

2012-12-212015-10-24Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Seasonal greeting in support of Republican political prisoners – with candles at base – in Northumberland St. This is the centre part of a wider mural-board composite – left and right shots below.

The “nollaig shona” and board in the picture just above together replace the previous “human rights” mural; the area below the “doors” hoarding, where the phoenix now appears, was previously blank.

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text: X00779 X00778 X00780 remember cogús p.o.w’s at christmas nollaig shona support all republican this time doorways quality doors r.i.c. murder gang harrison nixon the beehive 1926 victims september 1920 vol. ned trodden sean gaynor sean mcfadden

East Belfast Remembers

2012-12-052015-10-24Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Relatively recent (late 2011?) mural replacing an advertizing hoarding in Derwent St. (Newtownards Rd.) remembering the first world war, immediately next to another commemorating the dead and injured of various attacks during the troubles. The panels of the mural on the right are in/on bricked-up windows.

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text: X00755 Kingsmill, Shankill Enniskillen, la mon 12 dead 17th feb 1978 bloody friday 21st july 1972 9 dead 130 injured omagh 15th aug 1998 29 dead 300 injured darkley 20th nov 1983 3 dead 7 injured teebane 17th jan 1992 8 dead ballygawley 20th aug 1988 8 dead 28 injured tullyvallen 1st sept 1975 5 dead 6 injured

The Bone

2012-10-052018-08-25Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The place name Machaire Bhotháin perhaps gave rise to the name ‘The Bone’, the area around where the Park Inn was, between Ardoyne and Oldpark. (Machaire – a plain, level land; botháin – hut, shed, cabin. Perhaps a reference to cattle grazing in summer pasture). The three figures at the top are from left to right – Seán Mac Diarmada (who was from Leitrim but was a border for a time in Butler Street), Pól DeLéigh, Seán McCaughey; the mini-bus driver is Brendan Bradley. The green-and-yellow uniforms are from Colaiste Feirste. Signed “M Doc 2011” (Michael Dochartaigh). The Great Hunger was previously on this wall. Ardoyne Avenue.

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text: [X00526] X00633 Stair na gaeilge in ard eoin & machaire botháin, glór an tuaiscairt, teac de leigh, heritage lottery fund, comhionanas don gaeilge, club óige, flax cabs tacsaithe lín, siopai, glasrai, bainne, nuachtan, tobac, failte

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