“Fight the rich, feed the poor – Éıstıgí” (also “Free Gaza”) along Lecky Road in Derry’s Bogside.
Éıstıgí, or “listen, yous-uns” in Derry/Doıre, is the youth organisation associated with Soaradh (web); it promotes a socialist (and republican) ideology.
From February 2023:
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Sale has been agreed on the Shankill Gospel Hall (according to PropertyPal though not agents Frazer Kidd). High on the to-do list of the new owners will be removing the false gods in the apex on the Shankill Parade side.
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The Clements coffee shops in Belfast city centre closed in October, leaving only the two at Queen’s and UUJ (BelTel).
The abandonment of the Rosemary Street shop provides a space for art (see Visual History 11 on the rise of street art); replacing the Clements signage there is a “temp sign”: “And you may ask yourself, “Where is my beautiful signage[?]””.
Is this a plea for the return of Clements – a local chain – or investment in the city centre and a new business? Or perhaps it is meant ironically, as a protest against capitalism – the line is a modification of a lyric from the Talking Heads song ‘Once In A Lifetime’ (Stop Making Sense | Remain In Light), which describes a moment of awakening for the middle-aged and middle-classed: “How did I get here?”
On the permanently-closed shutters is a different kind of beautiful signage, a MOSCO throw-up.
See also: Crosseyed And Painless.
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Please get in touch if you know the artist of this three-eyed doorway denizen in Montgomery Street, Belfast.
Another doorway lurker: Dangerous Dave in Kent Street.
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“Together building a united community” (“T:BUC” for short) is an Executive-Office strategy (pdf) aiming (among other things) at “good relations” for children and young people. The web page details various programmes that fall under this initiative, including youth camps that bring together children from different religious communities.
The piece shown combines wild-style writing with graphics of landmarks (The Big Fish, Albert clock) and “hello” in various languages, including Irish.
With support from South Belfast Alternatives (web) and Flour Power sandwich shop (web) – “home of the Belfast Melt” – both in Donegall Pass.
Between Posnett Street and Chambers Street.
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The Easter lily and the red star mark this graffiti-art-style slogan in Durrow Park, Derry, as republican-socialist; RSYM = Republican Socialist Youth Movement (Fb), IRSP = Irish Republican Socialist Party (web), AFA = Anti-Fascist Action (Fb)). There is a small “Victory to Hamas” graffito to the right.
For the large Arm Saoırse Náısıúnta Na hÉıreann (INLA) board, see Serious Trouble.
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Wild-style writers RASK from Drogheda (ig), SNAK from Derry (ig), and SKARE from Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine by way of Warsaw, Poland, (ig) hit the so-called west Belfast “peace” line on Saturday and left their mark.
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Israeli bombing of Gaza resumed on Friday, with bombing of southern Gaza and a demand that civilians move even further south, to the border city of Rafah (Al Jazeera). This graffiti and a simple painting of the Palestinian flag are in the Elmfield area of Glengormley, Newtownabbey.
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The pigeon gets a crown in imitation of the new UK monarch, Charles III.
Graffiti by Hallion in east Belfast. Previously in this spot: Wear A Mask Or The Easter Bunny Gets It | Thran Rights Nai | Where’s Our 600 Quid?
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This graffiti is on Kennedy Way, in CNR west Belfast, and so “Ireland” includes Northern Ireland.
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