“Our wood goes, your windows go” – a message from the Bawnmore Zulus at Longlands Court/Arthur Road bridge in anticipation of August “festivities”.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02672 bmz nnd newtownabbey nationalist defenders
“We have the gear” on a blocked-up door on Stratheden Street, New Lodge, north Belfast.
See previously: Delivery Instructions
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02551
Seamus Heaney took up the pen where his father and grandfather had worked with the spade. A copy of his poem Digging was, along with others, placed on the Alexandra Park “peace” line but has been torn off in favor of the preferred mode of expression of the next generation: the spray can.
For more Heaney as public art, see The Hunting Heart.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02643 X02644 X02645 X02646
“SOS – Wall St rapes Ireland”. Conor Devine (at EamonnMallie.com) provides context. This message on the mountain (Slıabh Dubh) came and went in a matter of days, if not hours, because the television exposé it was designed to coincide with was not in fact broadcast; also perhaps because parents did not appreciate having to explain rape to their young children – the mountain can be seen from a large portion of west and central Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02914
Prince Charles’s last day drew this respond from Gael Force Art on Sliabh Dubh/Black Mountain, “Remember Ballymurphy and Springhill 1971-1972”, a reference to the Ballymurphy Massacre of August 1971, in which 11 people died at the hands of the Prince’s Parachute Regiment (WP) and the Springhill-Westrock Massacre of July 1972, in which five people were killed by British army snipers (WP).
For more Republican reaction to the Prince’s visit last week, see Operation Banner.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02632 X02633 Margaret Gargan, 13, John Dougal, 16, David McCafferty, 15, Patrick Butler, 39, Father Noel Fitzpatrick, 40, irish citizens wounded 2 others time for the truth
The suicide of young people continue to cast a shadow over Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland. (The suicide rate has almost doubled since the ceasefire; a fifth of those dying are under 25.) Here are three images from west Belfast, two from Black Mountain – “RIP Caomhan” and “RIP Butts” where the lettering from “End Brit/S’Mont Cuts” (see Credit Union Limited) has been repurposed. “RIP Punk” is from the junction of the Whiterock and Springfield Roads.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02578 X02613 X02611
On May 8th, 1915, the various brigades of the 36th (Ulster) Division gathered together from all over the province (including some soldiers from Cavan, Monaghan, and Donegal) to be reviewed by Major General McCalmont in south Belfast; they then paraded to City Hall (South Belfast Friends Of The Somme Association). To commemorate the event the words “36th Ulster Div” have appeared on Black Mountain above Highfield and Ballygomartin (taking a leaf from the Gael Force Art book). The wide shot, below, is taken in front of Fernhill House in the Glencairn estate, where the Ulster Volunteers paraded in 1914. In July 1915 the 36th would leave for Sussex to continue their training and eventually find themselves at the battle of the Somme in 1916.
Progress shots from Greater Shankill ACT
See previously: Messages On Slıabh Dubh (and Visual History page) | Fernhill House | Fernhill House, 2012 | UVF Headquarters
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02606 X02607
This vintage piece of graffiti, “Provisionals”, is on the side of a house in Twinbrook’s Gardenmore Road.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02584
A statement from the UDA/UFF in Castlemara (Carrickfergus): “Glenfield UDA will not tolerate anti-social behaviour”.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02504 Red fist ulster defence association freedom fighters
Here’s a piece of graffiti from just below Divis flats from last week; it has already been removed: Máire Drumm’s 1969 remark “Don’t shout [Up the] IRA; join the IRA”.
Previously on the same wall: Not Working | In-Former Republicans
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X02598
Extramural Activity 