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Prison First, Then President

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“”In my country we go to prison first and then become President” – Madiba, Nelson Mandela, freedom lover, friend of Ireland.”

Above is a new mural on Northumberland Street (not on Divis Street’s international wall) in honour of the ailing Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, on July 18th. Painted by Lucas Quigley (you can see a signature and a telephone number in the lower right), the mural features Mandela, the flags of Ireland and South Africa, and the Sinn Féin logo (in contrast with the dissident flyers further up to the left, shown on 2013-07-17). Detail below. The photo reproduced is probably this Getty image.

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Brigada Ramona Parra

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2013-06-28 BRPmural+

Brigada Ramona Parra (BRP) is the mural-painting wing of the Chilean Communist Party. Some of its members came to Belfast in 2009 and worked with local republican and loyalist muralists to put up this board at the southern entrance to Ormeau Park. The colours are still vibrant, but the board on which the piece was painted is deteriorating significantly. 200 images of the mural being painted can be found here. BelTel report of the launch.

Below: An extra-wide (2500 pixel) straight-on shot and a youtube video of BRP pieces 1968-2011.

Update 2013-09-06: Write-up of BRP on BBC.

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Che Guevara Lynch

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2013-06-05 CheGuevaraLynch+

“Che” Guevara’s father, also called Ernesto Guevara Lynch, was an Argentinian descended from Patrick Lynch, who emigrated from Galway (in 1742?) and married in Buenos Aries in 1749. (Based on these rodovid pages: one | two | three.) Che’s father is the source of the quote at the bottom of the mural: “In my son’s veins flowed the blood of Irish rebels.”

The Irish inscription, “Thocfadh [Thıocfadh] an réabhlóıdeach a mharú ach ní an réabhlóıd a scríosadh [scrıosadh]”, means (roughly) “It’s possible to kill the revolutionary person but not to destroy the revolution.”

This mural is on Fahan Street in the Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

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From The Mountaintop

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Here are two more shots of the hillside of Black mountain above the Springfield Road during the G8 summit June 17-18. For more on the ‘Massacre’ mural, see Springhill-Westrock Massacre.

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The Usual Suspects

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2013-06-18 G8WarCriminals+

To coincide with the G8 meeting taking place in Fermanagh this week “G8/NWO – War Criminals” appeared on the side of Black Mountain above New Barnsley.

Previously on the mountain: Thatcher – The Real Criminal

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One Community, One World

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Planet Earths form the corner-pieces for the Celtic knot-work on this multi-cultural mural in Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá, Béal Feırste.

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BRAGging

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Dissident republican graffiti, done with a marker, in the area around the Bogside Inn, at the bottom of Westland Street, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

On the left-hand side we have “INLA” and a five-pointed star, a flag (featuring a sunburst and the plough in the stars), “F T PSNI”, “SS RUC” on a tricolour, “BRY” (Bogside Republican Youth) and “BRAG” (Bogside Republican Action Group) and “we fear no loyalists”.

On the right-hand side we have “Free Gaza”, “Hamas” with Palestinian and Irish flags, “BRY” and starry plough and tricolour, “Fuck Sınn Féın sellouts” and “ONH” (Óglaıgh na hÉıreann).

See previously: BRAG

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Free Palestine

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2013-03-06 FreePalestine+

Exterior of the Museum Of Free Derry, featuring a Palestine mural, and a Civil Rights mural in the top left. Next to the coloured Guernica and a Latuff line-drawing.

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John Hume & Friends

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“A Tribute to John Hume” by the Bogside Artists. Nobel peace prize-winners John Hume (1988), Martin Luther King, Jr (1964), Nelson Mandela (1993), (the Derry bridge,) and Mother Teresa (1979).

Hume was awarded the prize jointly with David Trimble, and Mandela with F. W. de Clerk. The 94 year-old Mandela is currently (April 2013) in hospital with pneumonia.

Rossville Street and the rear of Glenfada Park, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

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The Path To A Better World

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A board has quickly gone up, on top of the Guernica mural on the so-called International Wall, to commemorate the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5th, at age 58 (WP).

“Adios! Amigo. The path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.”

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