Commentary on the largest loyalist political party, the Democratic Unionists, under the flyover at Nelson Street, Belfast: DUP – dinosaurs under Paisley.
Previously: End The Age Of Dinosaurs.
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Here are some summary wide shots of the left-hand side of hoarding around the North Street demolition site that was painted during HTN18, with Verz’s brown- and blue-eyed dog front and centre.
A wide shot is below; to the left of of Verz’s (ig) dog are a boy by Caoilfhionn Hanton (ig), a skull and “TV” by Ominous Omin (ig), and (out of frame but included last, below) some writing by SHUK (ig).
To the right (in the wide shot below) are JMK’s Mountains Of The Mind, Danni Simpson’s The Butterfly Counts Not Months But Moments, Holly Pereira’s Just Because You Feel It, Doesn’t Mean It’s There, and (out of frame) Esther O’Kelly’s Eden Vale. In the top left of the image above is DZIA’s Run For It.
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Gabriel Mackle was returned to prison most recently in November, 2017 (Pensive Quill | Irish News) and released in March, 2018 (An Phoblacht). The RSF board on the front of Lecky Road remains in place, however, as is joined by “IRA” graffiti. Bernadette Devlin (as she then was) organises in the background.
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The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights was declared 70 years ago, on December 10th, 1948. emic (tw | web) and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Council teamed up to mark the occasion with this CNBX/HTN18 piece of street art.
Below is another new emic ‘hand’ – compare with Hands and A Lifeboat From Despair.
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“Up the gangbangers.” Hoods from the New Lodge Road (some recent disturbances: Belfast Live | Irish Times | BelTel | Irish News) leave a graffiti message on top of Ed Reynolds’s (web) mural, seen previously in The Old New Lodge, On My Wedding Day, St Patrick’s and Faces From The Past, the last of which includes an image of the mural getting a coat of anti-graffiti varnish.
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These UDA 2nd battalion D company boards are in the lower Kilcooley estate, Bangor. This piece is co-branded as “North Down/West Belfast”, even though it is only metres away from a (North Down/East Belfast) North Down Defenders board. See Ulster Defence Unions for more on the tensions between the rival UDA factions.
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The mythical basilisk is able to kill its foes with a glance, but this one – painted by Swiss artist Sonic Oner (Fb) for Culture Night/Hit The North – fights its eagle prey with the barbed name of his creator.
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Well-meaning but simplistic (if not patronising) message from a tourist: «Irish, forget the past.» Local response: “Da war is not over yet.” Response-to-the-response: “Bring it on.” On the nationalist side of the “peace” line at Townsend Street.
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Three members of the Miami Showband were killed in 1975 at a fake check-point set by members of the UVF’s Glennane Gang. The explosion during the incident did not kill the musicians (as the graffiti on the poster above in loyalist east Belfast suggests); they were shot. Rather, a bomb exploded prematurely as it was being planted on their van, killing two of the attackers – see Boyle & Somerville – prompting the shooting spree (WP) that left three of the five band-members dead.
For the mural in the background, see Please Pay Here.
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Extramural Activity 