stencil – Extramural Activity

The Typist With The Webley

2025-11-192025-11-21Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“The typist with the Webley: Winifred Carney – socialist, republican, freedom fighter, Irish Citizen Army, Cumann Na mBan, suffragist, trade unionist, revolutionary.”

Winifred Carney was a qualified secretary and typist, and became secretary of the Irish Textile Workers’ Union in 1912, in which position she met James Connolly, who was secretary of the Belfast branch of the ITGWU. She was a member of Cumann Na mBan and participated in the Easter Rising of 1916. Carney was in the GPO when it was taken over and was among those who surrendered at the end; during the occupation she typed up dispatches from the Moore Street headquarters – this is how she was portrayed in the the 1916 Centenary mural.

(DIB | Ulster Biography | A Century Of Women | BBC | WP)

Stencil from Lasaır Dhearg (web) in Glenveagh Drive, Lenadoon, west Belfast, replacing the simple graffiti Ní Saoırse Go Saoırse Na mBan.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X15830 X15828 X15829

See No Evil

2025-09-062025-09-10Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Gaza genocide 186,000+” This is a small stencil on the Glen Molloy piece in North Street, perhaps in reference to the number of casualties in Gaza (Al Jazeera youtube) to which should be added more than 60,000 deaths (Derry mural on Paddy Duffy’s site).

For the two monkeys together, see No See, No Do.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X15745

Policing

2025-08-012025-08-20Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“The PSNI has arrested and charged almost twice as many ‘Catholics’ than ‘Protestants’ in recent years. Degrading spit hoods used 2.5 times more on ‘Catholics’ than ‘Protestants’. There is nothing ‘normal’ about the PSNI”.

This Lasaır Dhearg (web) tarp was mounted on the hoarding around Casement Park in Andersonstown and was quickly removed. (See Build Casement Now!) Below is a stencil with the same message on the Falls Road.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X15617 X15659

From D-Day To VE Day

2025-05-262025-06-10Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

39 Allied divisions – 12 of them British – participated in the Normandy Landings – officially “Operation Neptune” – that took place on June 6th, 1944; in planning for the operation, the original “D-Day” was June 5th, but bad weather postponed it until the following day, when 160,000 troops stormed the beaches of the Bay Of The Seine. By the end of August, Paris had been liberated, and by the following May, victory in Europe had been achieved. 2024 was the eightieth anniversary of D-Day and 2025 the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, on May 8th.

This D-Day board and VE Day mural are in Edlingham Street, Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast. Also included below is a WWI memorial electrical box opposite, though as can be seen from the board (immediately below) the ‘graveside mourner’ silhouette is becoming a generic symbol of lost UK forces.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X15436 X15437 X15438 X15446

Solidarity With Gaza Health Workers

2025-03-272025-03-27Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

In this graffiti outside the Royal Victoria Hospital, west Belfast, a person in a white coat faces a tank bearing an Israeli flag. Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza on March 18th killed more than 400 people (Independent), including an OB-GYN specialist in Rafah (Al-Jazeera); on the 23rd, an airstrike on Nasser Hospital killed five (Reuters).

Detailed figures of casualties among health-care workers in Gaza can be found at Healthcare Workers Watch.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X15364

The INLA

2024-08-202025-01-08Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Commemorations of the INLA’s fiftieth anniversary have so far been limited to graffiti – see Saoırse Go Deo in Derry and Let The Fight Go On in Belfast – but here we have two deliberately painted panels in the Bogside (specifically Meenan Square) (one replacing The Way We Were).

“Irish National Liberation Army, Derry brigade. This mural is dedicated to the women and men who gave their lives in the struggle for national liberation and socialism. Erected by the James Connolly Memorial flute band.”

Black Shamrock

2024-04-042025-01-08Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The black shamrock is a symbol of Irish neutrality dating back to 2006 (Irish Times | Pensive Quill). In the light of the attack on Gaza it is being used by the IPSC and other pro-Palestinian causes as a symbol of solidarity. This shamrock, on Free Derry Corner, has been augmented with two small Palestinian flags, one with a dove and the word “peace” (shown below).