Tread Softly Because You Tread On My Dreams

A line from WB Yeats’s The Cloths Of Heaven in (loyalist) south Belfast:”I have spread my dreams under your feet – Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

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The Poppy Trail

“This memorial is in honour of the men from our neighbourhood who made the ultimate sacrifice in the First World War. The handmade ceramic poppies were created by the GVRT [Greater Village Regeneration Trust] Well Women’s Group.”

The Poppy Trail: 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917

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S/Row QS

Two pieces of UDA on the shop shutters on Sandy Row. Above, “S[andy]/Row – Quis Separabit” (who will separate us?) and “UDA”. See also: Wee Ruby’s from 2013.

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End British Rule

“Éıstıgí” (Listen! (plural)). “Stormont must go!” “End British rule”. Éıstıgí is the youth organisation of Saoradh (web | tw | Fb).

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Rot In Hell, Martin

IRA volunteer and Sınn Féın politician Martin McGuinness died in March 2017 from amyloidosis (Guardian obituary). See also: Your A Scumbag, Martin McGuinness and The Bogside Butcher.

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Díchoılínıgh D’Intınn

“Decolonise your mind” and “Give a yell!” (or “Let’s go!) (in Irish “Lıg do Lıú”) on the Falls Road at Waterford Street, west Belfast.

Update: Below, the graffiti in 2018 (with “Brısfıdh mé do phus!” and “Múscaıl do mhısneach”) on top of The Plan For Today

Previous decolonisation: Rebels’ Unrest.

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Aıslıng Ghéar

This (2017) summer the Irish-language theatre company Aıslıng Ghéar (web | Fb | tw) celebrated its twentieth anniversary “ag cur an dráma sa Ghaeılge le 20 blıaın”.

Iveagh Parade, west Belfast

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Resurfacing

Here are three pieces of republican graffiti from Creggan, in various states of legibility: “Join IRA now!!!”, “End political policing now. INLA”, and “Hood’s [sic] will be shot”.

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