The Maureen Sheehan Centre is named after a nurse and member of the board of governors at St Teresa’s Nursery School who was killed in a traffic accident.
Roumania Rise, Divis, west Belfast.
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“UTH” [Up the Huns], a swastika and “C-18” – neo-Nazi graffiti on a railing pillar.
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In the two-person game of ‘rock-paper-scissors’ (or four-person ‘rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock’) rock prevents scissors from cutting. Sınn Féın are encouraging stoney resistance to austerity proposals by the Conservative party (Tories).
The cuts would continue – see Stop Tory Cuts – and persist throughout the decade: WP | Guardian
Falls Rd/Glen Rd – former site of the Andersonstown RUC barracks
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The bottom of Farnham Street used open out onto Balfour Avenue and the western embankment of the Lagan, and the gable at the bottom was a good spot for murals. In the late 80s, there was one to celebrate the centenary of Celtic FC (see C00701) and in the 90s there was one to the (Official) IRA (see D00828). And the “Say No To Blow” mural dates back to at least 2004.
In roughly 2008, however, a pair of semi-detached houses were built on the spot, blocking the mural. For an uninhibited view of the whole mural, see D01584.
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“Women of substance – plúr na mban. The changing role of women the in Market area.” A century of women’s work, from cooking, child-care, and hand-wringing the washing in 1904 to using computers, reading books, and graduating from university in 2004. The pink symbol in the corner is the emblem of the New Belfast Community Arts Initiative.
Stewart Street, Markets, Belfast
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“Say no to drug dealers. Drug dealers don’t care where the money comes from. Do you?”
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, north Belfast.
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This mural is on the International Wall, Divis St, celebrating Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 (WP).
“Inspired by two Irishmen to escape from slavery, Frederick Douglass came to Ireland during the famine. Henceforth he championed the abolition of slavery, women’s rights and Irish freedom.”
“Perhaps no class has carried prejudice against colour to a point more dangerous than have the Irish and yet no people have been more relentlessly oppressed on account of race and religion.
(Also by Douglass, and which would have made an apt quote for the mural: “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”)
Divis Street, Belfast. There would later be a larger Douglass mural on Northumberland St (Visual History).
To the left of the Guernica mural.
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Car Park Of Dreams, Hopewell Square, lower Shankill, west Belfast.
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“Meet our need – not developers greed”, “Local needs ignored over profit”, “Regeneration not gentification [sic]”, “We need social housing not yuppy apartments” (not shown). Graffiti on the hoarding around the (proposed) construction site on the lower Shankill Road.
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“Kill all taigs [Catholics]”. C-18 is ‘Combat 18’, a neo-Nazi movement in the UK, hence the swastika.
Glenvale Street, west Belfast.
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