Two of the UVF flags put up to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the formation of the UVF still flying (on May 5th) above the black-and-white UVF mural in Carrington Street at the junction with the Ravenhill Road. The flags were supposed to come down directly after the parade on April 20th (BBC-NI) but there is now confusion as to who is responsible for their removal.
An electrical box and light-post painted in the colours of the Irish tricolour by dissident republicans in the Bogside in Derry. “BRY” is “Bogside Republican Youth”
Words from Padraig Pearse’s oration at the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 are featured in this mural at the bottom of Brompton Park, in Ardoyne. It ends …
“They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
A colourised photograph from the day itself – with Pearse in uniform – can be found at Goggle Arts & Culture.
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).
The Bogside Artists’ ‘The Death Of Innocence’ at the bottom of Westland Street in Derry. The mural features Annette McGavigan, who died on September 6th, 1971, at age 14, shot by a British Army soldier. The mural is three storeys high; its height can be judged in comparison with the pedestrian walking below it. Above the mural, the streets of the bogside stand row upon row.
In the video below, one of the artists, Kevin Hasson discusses the mural, including the later alterations to the coloured butterfly and the broken rifle. The original version can be seen in M02053.
Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic shows James Connolly lying injured on a stretcher, being tended to by Elizabeth O’Farrell (? WP), while Pearse, Clarke, and Plunkett (and Ceannt?) stand by. Detail (taken in 2004) just below …
In addition to the seven signatories of the Proclamation of an Irish Republic, 9 other leaders of the Easter Rising were executed in the wake of the rebellion. The portraits of all 16 are part of this new mural (on boards) of Walter Paget’s painting The Birth Of The Irish Republic. (For Paget’s painting, see the painting’s Visual History page.) In order of appearance, the 16 (with links to their WP pages) are …
A few words of Irish – “Lamh Dearg Abu” – in a loyalist mural in Glenwood Street, just off the Shankill Road, through strictly it should be “Lámh Dhearg Abú”. “Lámh dhearg” means “red hand”, and this is a Red Hand Commando mural.
The same motto was on the mural that this one replaced, which can be seen at M02433.
The title of the post is the headline of a recent article in the Irish Times, giving an account of Irish language classes in (loyalist) east Belfast. “Tá” is Irish for “yes”.
The scene at the top of Bealach Havana/Havana Way in Ard Eoın/Ardoyne. From left to right: a “Free Marian Price – End Internment” board, a “1 Ireland, 1 Vote” board (calling for a 32 county referendum), and a Gaelic games mural featuring hurling, football and handball – seen previously in 2008.
Extramural Activity 