St. Patrick’s on Donegall Street serves as the local Catholic church for the New Lodge. Its spire rises above the houses in a detail from the community mural at the bottom of the New Lodge, painted by Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded.com), based on vintage photographs of the area and its residents.
Previously: The Old New Lodge | On My Wedding Day
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In Belfast city centre in the early morning, it’s generally safe for the milkman to leave the milk on the pavement outside business premises, but perhaps not when there’s a well-camouflaged tiger on the prowl – red and white striped to match the pole of the Tivoli barber shop.
Work by friz in North Street; replaces KinMX’s blue-haired nude.
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“Peace is more difficult than war. We were not scared as we resisted; we will not be scared when we make peace.” Turkish-born Kurdistan Workers’ Party founder Abdullah Öcalan has been in prison since 1999, during which time he has changed from advocating violence to advocating a political solution to the Kurdish situation in Turkey. (WP) The conflict has resulted in a minimum of 45,000 deaths. (WP)
The mural was launched on Sunday (2014-07-06); it replaces the Sands Family mural. Below is a shot from January 2017 showing damage to the mural.
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Here is another detail long piece on the side wall of Menagerie, of a girl perhaps listening intently to the music been pumped out by from the magical piano (featured previously in The Piano Has Been Smoking). If you know the artist, please leave a comment or send an e-mail. A wide shot of the whole is below.
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Above is another panel from the new Lodge multi-panel community mural done by Ed Reynolds on North Queen Street, based on vintage photographs of locals. In the lower right-hand corner are the words “Tilly & Margaret Moreland”.
Previously: The Old New Lodge.
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The hoarding at the building-site on Gresham Street has been painted to represent the shop that used to be on the opposite side of the street.
Bigg Life Arts September 7-8, 2013, emic (Twitter), as part of the Smithfield & Library Arts Festival
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Her Majesty’s Prison Belfast, better known as The Crumlin Road Gaol, was visited by the Queen on Tuesday (2014-06-24), probably not at the beckoning of this advertisement on the corner of Divis and Northumberland streets, next to the mural of Kieran Nugent and Brendan Hughes. One of the former residents of the jail, Martin McGuiness, showed the Queen around (which not everyone was happy with – The Guardian).
The jail opened in 1846 (under Queen Victoria, during the Hunger), closed in 1996, was transferred to OFM/dFM in 2003, and opened to the public in 2007 (DSI). Other notable prisoners include seven militant suffragettes (among them Dorothy Evans and Madge Muir, arrested for possession of explosives BBC – includes 6 min. audio | Belfast Suffragettes | WRDA), Eamon De Valera, Bobby Sands, Ian Paisley, and Michael Stone (WP), as well as Tom Mitchell and Phil Clarke, elected to Westminster in 1955 for Sinn Féin while still in prison (An Phoblacht).
Audio tour of the prison from CultureNI | Video footage of the Queen’s visit from The Telegraph.
The (unattributed) photo on which the Kieran Nugent mural is based in included below. See also this BBC video.
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The bird on the hat on the head of the man playing the piano with the dials and the tubes and the bulbs tweets love. Detail from one of the murals in the car-park/courtyard of Menagerie (Web | Fb), on University Street. Painted by Elph (Fb) in May 2012.
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As he mentions in the video below, JMK (Jonny McKerr – Fb) has long been painting classical sculpture. This Venus/Aphrodite (or perhaps Diana/ Artemis?) – sporting a modern attitude – takes its place in the gallery that is North Street, replacing (the first) Read More.
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Here are close-ups of two of KVLR’s (Kevin Largey – Twitter) new faces in the first-floor windows in Garfield Street. The wide shot below shows all seven windows, and the Take The Red Pill piece featured a few days ago.
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