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Long To Reign Over Us

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2015-01-24 QEII50th+

The Queen’s golden jubilee (50th anniversary 1952 – 2002) is celebrated in this long-lasting UFF/UDA mural in Rathcoole. It originally included a (painted) “plaque” at the bottom, which has been painted out. On September 10th, 2015, Elizabeth II will surpass Victoria as the longest reigning British monarch.

Diamond jubilee mural in the Village: Looking Back; board on the Shankill: For Those About To March | Ulster Girl | A Full House.

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Taigs Out

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2014-08-26 MonkstownBestWide+

UDA mural in Monkstown “Simply The Best”, along with a faded UVF wall with “The Ulster People’s Army” on one half and “Taigs out” over “Ulster Volunteer Force” on the other. For the mural in the background, see M03088.

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I Love Petrol

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2014-12-25 ILovePetrol+

Spanish artist Marta Revillas (Web | Fb) painted the remaining shutter on the Bigg Life Arts centre. Her piece depicts a bikini’ed woman with fox ears and tail astride a motorcycle with an extended fork. Launched 2014-09-26. For the other shutters, see Lost In The Music and Art Lab.

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Redmonk Greenlips

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2014-12-25 CNB14Redmonk+

Here’s Kilian Redmonk’s CNB14 piece in North Street. A cyan (and earless!) version of his CNB13 work shown in Redmonk Bluelips.

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Safezone

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2014-11-21 Ballymac+

On one side are children rock-climbing and canoeing, on the other are the masks of tragedy and comedy and a skeletal Death, shrouded in vapours from an earth split open and cloaking a multitude of souls ensnared with needle, pipe, and pills. The south wall of the Ballymac Youth Centre in Pitt Park promises a safezone from the “devastation of suicide” or becoming “addicted to death”. Harland & Wolff’s Goliath stands in the background.

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Haunted

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2014-09-06 TheDead+

During the day these undead come out and show themselves to passers-by on York Road. At night, the shutters roll up and the taxi office comes to life.

By artist MRi.

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Magic Mountain

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2014-11-19 PrincessesDisney+

Here is a final image from the new wall of Disney characters in the Slıabh Dubh estate. (See previously: Look Behind You | If The Shoe Fits.) On Aladdin‘s magic carpet we have Princess Jasmine, Abu the monkey, and Iago the parrot, while on the stairs is Esmerelda (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and between them is The Owl from Sleeping Beauty. At the bottom we have Minnie Mouse, Figaro (from Pinocchio and also Minnie’s pet cat), and Daisy Duck.

Two wide shots can be found below. The first shows the entirety of the wall, the second shows (some of) the adjacent wall of superheroes. All 11 current Disney princesses are included, as well as the sisters Elsa and Anna from Frozen.

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They May Kill The Revolutionary

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2014-09-29 NorglenDetail+2

“… but not the revolution.” Turf Lodge mural (shown in full below) showing two armed volunteers (one female, one male) with portraits of eleven others. See previously: Che Guevara Lynch

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TitanaThumb

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2014-06-27 KentStPopeye+

This Belfast Popeye has four arms and massive thumbs, enough to hold up Titanic. As well as an anchor and life buoy, the figure sports an Irish harp, mushrooms, a lion rampant, a pike(?), a shamrock, a Celtic cross, tiger stripes, a snake, and various other symbols.

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Who Will Separate Us?

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2014-08-26 Monkstown1stBatt+

This Monkstown mural commemorates four UDA volunteers: Malcolm Fisher, Colin Weir, Jim McClurg and William Hobbs. Hobbs and McClurg were killed when a bomb went off prematurely (CAIN’s Sutton Index 1977) ; there is no mention of the other two. Please leave a comment or send an e-mail if you have any information.

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