O’Neill Must Go

Graffiti on the British Portland Cement building outside Magheramorne, possibly dating to 1969 and UUP leader and NI prime minister Terence O’Neill’s reform plan in the wake of the rioting in Derry and the march to Burntollet.

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1690-1990

On the 300th anniversary of King William’s victory at the Battle Of The Boyne, red-white-and-blue coping stones on Ballylig Road in Magheramorne, outside Larne, with the Presbyterian church in the background.

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UVF Barn

“UVF” painted on sheet of metal in front of a padlocked barn on the upper Crumlin/Ballyutoag Road, Belfast.

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Meet Our Need

“Meet our need – not developers greed”, “Local needs ignored over profit”, “Regeneration not gentification [sic]”, “We need social housing not yuppy apartments” (not shown). Graffiti on the hoarding around the (proposed) construction site on the lower Shankill Road.

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C-18

“Kill all taigs [Catholics]”. C-18 is ‘Combat 18’, a neo-Nazi movement in the UK, hence the swastika.

Glenvale Street, west Belfast.

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Anti-Israel

“Israel, fuck you!” and “Fuck Isra[e]l”. Here are two pieces of anti-Israel graffiti on the Whiterock Road.

In the background of the second image is a 2006 piece by Mo Chara, ‘Paistí na Carraige’ on the Whiterock Children’s Centre.

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End The Siege Of Gaza

Pro-Palestinian graffiti on the shutters of the newsagents on the Falls at the top of Donegall Road, west Belfast.

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A Message For Foxy

A message for Foxy in the Markets area of south Belfast: “Foxy remember your only a lorry driver and don’t forget it”.

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Huns Out, Guns Out

Here are two images of graffiti on the cannons on the walls of the old Derry city. Above, “Fuck the Huns [Protestants]”; below, “I shagged ur ma”.

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View From The Graveyard

Here are two image of murals on the Whiterock Road taken from City Cemetery. Of the pair in the bottom image, the one on the left is to Keven Lynch (see M02999); the one on the right is against plastic bullets and dates back to 1995 (see M01360).

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