Real IRA member Alan Ryan was killed in north Dublin on September 3rd and graffiti has appeared mourning his death, supposedly at the hands of “drug dealing scum”. For background, see Irish Times | An Sıonnach Fıonn.
These two pieces are both on walls around the tower blocks in the New Lodge.
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Belfast has just (Friday 21st) had its fourth annual culture night and budding muralists were out in force. Here is random sample. Above is NOTA (none of the above)’s piece on shop shutters in North Street. Update 2013-02-28: A NOTA tag at Belfast Snapper.
Below is Praise, with a blue-and-white constructivist stencilling.
Praise’s piece is on the wall at the bottom of the wheel-chair ramp into (what was) the NI Tourist Board. Just around the corner, on North Street itself, we have this electrical box with white crosses with ‘Get Paid’ slogan, signed PB (??)
This crew didn’t have a name …
‘Visual waste’ was also there; here’s his tag stencil. We’ll have the finished products from Visual Waste and from Praise in a couple of days.
Here is video of various artists at work …
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Thus Always To Graffiti Artists! These pictures were taken on Thursday (September 13th, 2012) and by Sunday (16th) the graffiti was gone, painted out! Belfast City Council have over this past year or so been diligent in painting out fly-postings – mostly paper ones advertising concerts and other events – but here they have painted out a political message.
The scene is the gateway to the now derelict and abandoned site of the old Sirocco works at Bridge End, on the city side of Short Strand.
You can glimpse the newer bubble-capitalism in the new-build apartments in the distance.
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X00639 X00640 sirocco, corrupt governments of the world you’re sacked one love, oil boiler scrappage scheme, call now to scrap your old boiler and save money
“Smoke like fuck.” Graffiti on the corner of Eccles & Acton Streets, Woodvale, west Belfast.
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Wild-style writing is combined with images of local street signs and portraits of east Belfast luminaries such as George Best, Van Morrison, and CS Lewis.
“Created as part of Belfast City Council’s Creative Legacies programme by the young people of ‘The Klub’ at Dee Street Community Centre and artist Daniela Balmaverde. With PEACE III funding.
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Graffiti on Northumberland St. in relation to the assassination of Alan Ryan (background: Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph)
Update: Graffiti in Derry (Derry Journal) | in Dublin (Sunday World)
Update #2: Irish Times article on possible reprisal killing.
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X00602 RIP Alan Ryan, Pushers Out, support the pows, cogus, rnu, http://www.republicannetwork,ie
Graffiti in lower Shankill: “Free the Lower Shankill Six!! Send our prisoners home.”
According to this blog post, this is not political, but refers instead to six fellas done for stealing pallets. (Which perhaps means we can safely enjoy the old joke about the journalist asking the politician, “And what do you think about the Renault 5?”. To which the politician replied, “I think they should be released immediately.”)
To the right is a C-18 swastika.
Previously the “Play” mural and before that the “Can it change? We believe!” mural.
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Writing in College Court, Belfast, perhaps referencing the OPM song of 2000.
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“Copyright is for losers © TM – Banksy”. A “Banksy”, about Banksy, in Bundoran.
The statement on the left appears on the printer’s page inside the cover of Wall And Piece, but is immediately followed by “Against his better judgment, Banksy has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 …”!
For Banksy, see banksy.co.uk, WP.
Related: (the real) Banksy’s Olympics works, Hackney Welcomes the Olympics and Going For Mould.
See also: Belfast Banksy
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“What if we all prayed?” The toll of the recession in Fivemiletown, Co. Fermanagh, is not only driving people to prayer, but driving people to drive people to prayer.
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Extramural Activity 