Christopher Walken, Adam Ant, and Harrison Ford are the final three figures from Glen Molloy’s gallery of stars on Corporation Street. The wide shot below also shows Noel Gallagher and Bruce Lee in the second and third spots.
See previously: Jack Nicholson | Billy Casper | Shaun of the Dead/Leo DiCaprio/Bowie
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UDU (Ulster Defence Union) mural in Pine Street, Londonderry, vandalised with “IRA” graffiti. The mural has since been repaired. For the original, see Union Shield.
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Jon Snow, the character from Song Of Ice And Fire, as incarnated by Kit Harrington on the TV show Game Of Thrones during the Battle Of The Bastards (s6e9).
Time-lapse video of the piece being painted can be found on Visual Waste’s youtube channel.
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Here is the UDA/UFF mural on the left-hand gable of “Freedom Corner”. The mural is a 2015 repaint of the previous mural, which had to be replaced when it disintegrated. (See Freedom Corner for speculation as to the cause.) At the time, there was some disappointment that it was not repainted in a non-paramilitaristic fashion but defenders described the mural as “historical” (Tele).
The mural shows a UDA-jacketed volunteer with assault rifle and a modified version of the Declaration of Arbroath: “For as long as one hundred of us remain alive we shall never in anyway consent to submit to the Irish for it’s not for glory, honour or riches we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life – U.D.A./U.F.F”
From left to right: For Freedom Alone | As Long As 100 Of Us Remain Alive | Loyalist East Belfast | The Strangest Victory In All History | Ulster’s Past Defenders | Nationality is included in Loyalist East Belfast | Ulster’s Present Defenders | Freedom Corner
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In addition to the famous trans-Atlantic ships (image above), Belfast was part of the travel network in the UK and Ireland (image below). Before there was British Railways, there were the Big 4: the Southern, Great Western, London and Northeastern, and London, Midland, and Scottish (LMS) railways. The latter included the railways in the Northern Counties. In addition to railways, the company owned canals, ships (including the Princess Victoria which sank on the Larne-Stranraer route), and hotels. “Belfast-built liners bridged the Atlantic and took people all over the world.” “Railway-owned ships ensured a seamless journey throughout the British Isles.”
Previously:The history of Shipbuilding in Belfast.
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Three more panels from the Glen Molloy gallery on Corporation St: Shaun (of Shaun Of The Dead, played by Simon Pegg), Dom Cobb (from Inception, played by Leonardo DiCaprio), and David Bowie.
Previously: Jack Nicholson in God Of Madness | Billy Casper from Kes.
Shaun replaces DMC’s Three Missed Calls, below.
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The hopeless case, Billy Casper (played by David Bradley), from the Ken Loach film Kes, flashes two fingers at the world – as seen in the poster for the movie.
This is another of the 10 panels by Glen Molloy on Corporation Street. See previously: Jack Nicholson in God Of Madness.
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These two murals of five women and five babies at the rear of the Maureen Sheehan health care centre are entering (at least) their eighth year of existence and are showing their wear due to both the natural and human causes, such as graffiti and burning (see previously: A Philosophy of Liberation). For the murals in better condition (in 2010) see M05732 and M05733.
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“Hasta siempre, Comandante” is a 1956 song celebrating the life of Che Guevara, with Fidel Castro appearing in the final verse to join the Cuban people in saying “Hasta siempre, Comandante” to Che as he departs Cuba for the Simba Rebellion in Congo. The slogan is here applied to Fidel himself on the occasion of his death in November 2016 at the age of 90.
Here is French singer Nathalie Cardone’s version on the song, which reached #2 in France and #1 in Belgium in 1997:
The Castro mural is next to one for fellow Marxist Salvadore Allende of Chile: see La Historia Es Nuestra.
See also Hasta La Victoria Siempre.
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Glen Molloy’s Jack Nicholson takes the place of Jonny McKerr’s Bacchus on the wall of Direct Wine Shipments in Corporation Street.
See the final entry in the series for an overview.
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Extramural Activity 