graffiti/writing

Living Like Animals

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2013-04-22 LiveLikeAnimal+

A third piece of Thatcher-related graffiti (one | two), this time in the loyalist Tiger’s Bay area: “If Mr. Sands wants to act like an animal, he can live like one.” Although it is attributed to Mrs. Thatcher here, there does not appear to be any reputable source for the quote. Thatcher’s funeral is tomorrow, Wednesday 17th.

Note the freshly painted kerb stones. Eithne House, one of the New Lodge tower blocks, can be seen in the background of the picture, with a board to hunger-striker Patsy O’Hara on the left-hand side.

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Rust In Peace

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2013-04-09 RustInPeace+

Here is another piece of graffiti in response to the death of Margaret Thatcher, outside the Royal Victoria hospital on the Falls Road: “Iron Lady? Rust In Peace”, with “Upara” – Up The (I)RA. Thatcher was given the sobriquet by the Soviet army newspaper Red Starin 1976, apparently in imitation of the “Iron Chancellor”, Otto von Bismarck (WP).

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Rot In Hell, Thatcher

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2013-04-09 RotInHell+

Reaction to the death (on Monday, April 8th) of Margaret Thatcher, U.K. Prime Minister 1979-1990 (WP), in an alley below Divis flats, between Divis Street and Clonfaddan Crescent.

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The Culture Wars

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2013-02-13 IRAUnionAsterisk+

“IRA” daubed on a wall in The Fountain, Londonderry, painted over with an impromptu and almost colourless Union jack that also looks like an asterisk.

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33 Lecky Road

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2013-03-07 FreeDerry+

“You are now entering Free Derry” – Free Derry Corner with The Petrol Bomber and Bernadette murals in the background.

For a Visual History of the gable, see Free Derry Corner.

(A copy (in Belfast) of one of the flyers on the side of the wall in the first image above can be seen in End Impunity.)

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Free Marian Price Now

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As a member of the IRA, Price was jailed for the Old Bailey bombing in 1973, and her post-Agreement license was revoked in May, 2011, when she was charged, as a member of the Real IRA, in connection with the Massereene Barracks shooting of 2009 – she was sent to Maghaberry. IRPWA graffiti in Gartan Square, and at the Eastway roundabout, Derry.

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Direct Line

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2013-02-13 InGodWeTrust+

“In God We Trust” on a wall jutting out/continuing on from the main “peace” line, in The Fountain, Londonderry.

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Let Your Union Fly Flag

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2013-01-24 FlyTheFlag+

Graffiti in east Belfast concerning the on-going dispute over the union flag on Belfast City Hall: Be proud to fly your flag. No surrender!

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A Short Treatise On The Ephemerality Of Art

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2013-01-04 NikoPraise+

Q: Praise’s piece in North Street has been …?
(a) vandalized
(b) improved
(c) replaced
(d) all of the above
(e) other

Explain your answer in the comments. Also on Extramural Activity: An Essay On The Necessity Of Art | Fuck Art | A Dialogue On The Nature Of Art

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