An IRA man in beret and sunglasses puts the frighteners on non-patients tempted to avail themselves of the Clifton Street Surgery car-park.
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No Unauthorised Parking
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Join Yourself To This Chariot
“Which way is your life going? Easy street? Hard slog? No where? Dead End? Call us & see if we can help guide you.” “God said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.” Acts 8:29” The chariot in Philip’s case contained an Ethiopian eunuch, reading the book of Isaiah, which Philip explained and so converted him. The chariot in our case contains the number for Glory Road Ministries.
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My Lord Who Calms The Sea
Käpt’n Kalle (Fb) is a paste-up character from Germany. Pottinger’s Entry, Belfast.
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She Is My Spy As I Am Hers
In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the handmaids have shopping partners, so that they are always under observation: “She is my spy as I am hers”. Artist Leo Boyd adds to the dystopian air of the book by combining the handmaid (from the new TV adaptation of the book – currently available only in the US) with an outdated computer monitor. Here is some of Leo’s previous work.
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Total Eclipse Of The Sun
“96” is the number of deaths in the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, in which Liverpool fans were crushed to death in Sheffield Wednesday’s stadium. In the days afterward, the Sun newspaper printed allegations that drunken fans attacked and urinated on rescue workers. The newspaper apologised in 2004 but hostility towards the paper persists, with some – as in this image – refusing even to spell it in full. The taxi was spotted in Beechmount. For more on the 2016 inquest, see Hold Your Head Up High.
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My First Meat Wagon
Another PSNI land rover from Leo Boyd (web | ig) today. The first can be seen in “Nothing to fear, nothing to hide” from the summer of 2017; in this one, a new piece: a PSNI pedal car is “My first meat wagon”. Here is some of Leo’s previous work.
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Nothing To Fear, Nothing To Hide
Here is a modified PSNI land rover from Leo Boyd (web | inst): “Nothing to fear, nothing to hide” from the summer of 2017. See also “My first meat wagon“.
Here is some of Leo’s previous work.
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It Can’t Be Made More Equal
Posters on a drainpipe on the Falls Road next to Gerry Carroll’s constituency office: “Keep Stormont closed. Smash Stormont – It can’t be made more equal, less corrupt or used to promote socialism. Close it now! Sign the petition … Published by Socialist Democracy.”
With “Saol trí Ghaeilge [atá uainn]” below [We want life using Irish].
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Just People
Here is a selection of posters from throughout the past year (2017) from Belfast and London-/Derry. Above is an Anarchists In Ireland poster welcoming refugees, while the second image is of a passenger and parcel service to Romania from Dublin. The others are for republican marches and causes.
Previous collections of (mostly torn) posters: We Had Our Distresses | Layer Upon Layer
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Nobody Rides For Free
Spotted in Belfast city centre – rates for carriage: gas (petrol), grass or ass (arse).
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Extramural Activity 