The Inıs Ceıthleann/Enniskillen face-lift ahead of the G8 summit in June gets under way with this (quite obviously fake) tarp with a photo of Lough Erne superimposed upon it, along the Irvinestown Road.
In the image below, taken from a railing across the street, you can see what Obama and other world leaders must not!
Previously: Putting On The Ritz
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A tarp has been added to the Ardoyne memorial garden (seen previously in 2008) putting the 12 deceased hunger strikers from the modern Troubles alongside those who were executed for their part in the Easter Rising.
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, Belfast
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Following on from the crannóg excavations, we might say that we walk around on top of the past, layer upon layer. Here, however, the living people walk around below those that are frozen in time.
North Street, Belfast/Béal Feırste.
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X00969 though newly christened smithfield and union has existed for generations its identity and its existence has never been in question giving it a name gives it a heart celebrates the individual the different the separate the idiosyncratic and the eclectic old belfast new vision
A banner announcing the Rising Sons Flute Band outside their practice hall in east Belfast. (Previously: Rising Sons mural)
One of many Rising Sons youtube videos:
The banner makes an appearance in this CNN video on the rioting …
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There was more news (Belfast Telegraph) last week (September 6, 2012) related to the on-going series of trials involving supergrass witnesses. A FAST banner is here seen in Spier’s Place. Last year there were banners in Donegall Pass, Mount Vernon, and Newtownards Road. For background and the collapse of the original trials, see Families Against Supergrass Trials.
Previously: 1914-2004 (the left-hand mural)
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X00618 see also X00459 spiers place welcome to the shankill road, families against supergrass trials, demand human rights and justice, lest we forget, Preparing to bear arms 1914, Prepared to bear arms 2004, a uvf roadblock at donaghadee april 24/25th 1914 during gunrunning, this plaque is dedicated to the memory of Lt. col. trevor king, died 9th july 1994, major wm. (Frenchie) marchant died 28th april 1987 davy hamilton died 17th june 1984. these brave men were killed near this spot by the enemies of ulster. no sacrifice is too great for one’s country. the paid the ultimate sacrifice. they shall not grow old as we that are left gro old, age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them; uvf for god and ulster
Families Against Supergrass Trials was formed to protest the first supergrass trial in 26 years (after the system collapsed during the trial), to begin on September 8th, related to the killing of Tommy English (Belfast Telegraph | BBC | BBC). The banner above is in Donegall Pass, the one below is on the Mount Vernon flats. There was another in Newtownards Road (Irish News). (And in 2012, one in Spier’s Place/Shankill Rd.)
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The troops in question are British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, though the withdrawal of troops from Iraq had just taken place (on May 22) prior to the photographing of the image above (June 26).
Charlotte Street, Belfast.
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“2009: Welcome To Loyalist Linfield Road. Celebrating Our Culture 1690.” The central panel is a combination Union Flag, Ulster Banner, and free-floating Northern Ireland.
The banner hung on the railings in Linfield Road from 2009 until it was stolen and placed on a 2013 Republican bonfire (see Bonfire Flags) which then elicited a comment on the wall just east of this location (see They May Have Stole Our Banner).
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Above and below are images from the August 15th (feast of the assumption) march of the Ancient Order Of Hibernians, taken at Milltown Cemetery where AOH leader Joe Devlin is buried. The first two show banners of the Gortrighey division (387) – the first includes an image of a priest celebrating the nativity on Christmas morning at a mass rock in the penal days which is also reproduced in an Ardoyne mural. The Glassdrummand banner shown next includes a very similar image.
We then have two showing the assumption of our lady, the first from the first Derry division and the second from Rosnashane.
The final banner, from Randalstown, shows ‘Our Lady Queen Of Ireland”.
The final two images are of the lapels of a well-traveled Newry member, with badges from Michigan and Pennsylvania alongside a pike (1798), an easter lily (1916) and commemorations of Bloody Sunday and the hunger strikers, and of the side entrance to the local Clonard AOH lodge, division 58, which hosted the gathering.
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This Orange Order banner is on the outside wall of the shed in the graveyard of Drumcree church, Portadown, years after the dispute effectively ended.
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