stencil

Ireland Supports Palestinian Resistance

Extramural Activity1 Comment

A rally at Free Derry Corner took place on Tuesday evening to express solidarity with the Palestinians (Derry Now). The wall has been decorated with support for Palestinians. On the left a boy in a tricoloured t-shirt waves a Palestinian flag although at his feet are the words of Bobby Sands: “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children”. On the right, a lark in barbed wire (symbol of political prisoners) sports the colours of Palestine, above “RSYM” [Republican Socialist Youth Movement (Fb)]. The text in the centre draws an analogy between Palestine and Ukraine: “Ukraine vs Russia = Self-defense. Palestine vs. Israel = Terrorism??”

More solidarity rallies are planned in towns around Ireland throughout the week (IPSC) including a white-line picket in Derry on Saturday.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Andy McDonagh/Eclipso Pictures (ig | Fb)
X14381 X14832 X14383 X14384 X14385 X14380

Time For A Socialist Republic

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The waste ground at Corrib Avenue (in the curve between Rossnareen and Lenadoon) is being developed with new houses by Choice (Belfast Media) and Lasaır Dhearg have taken advantage of the hoarding mounted around the construction site to display the messages above — “Remember the hunger strikers” — and below, with an image of James Connolly — “Time for a socialist republic”.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X14113 X14114

The Clash

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Four colours of rubbish and recycling, and three colours of The Clash.

University Road/Stranmillis Road, south Belfast.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2024/2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X15228 X14151

Living In Poverty

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Population of the Six Counties: 1,800,000. Living in poverty: 313,000. Children in poverty: 100,000.”

The source for the statistics presented might be the Department Of Communites, which gives statistics for 2021-2022; the Rowntree foundation has a report on 2022 poverty levels. No source is given here or on the campaign’s web page at Lasaır Dhearg (web | tw).

Glenveagh Drive; with a bonus image of on old Marian Price stencil in nearby Carrigart Avenue.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X12801 X12800

Ballysillan Road Bonfire

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

On the Ballysillan Road at the bottom of Kilcoole Park.

The stencils of King Billy have appeared all over Tyndale and down onto the Ballysillan Road outside the Boys’ Model.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X12743 X12742 X12741 [X12739] [X12740]
X12745 X12746

Hit The North – Union Street

Extramural Activity2 Comments

This is a gallery of the new Hit The North pieces on Union Street south of Kent Street. There is a separate post for the new pieces on Union Street north of Kent Street.

From north to south (top to bottom in this post) the works are by:
Conor McClure (ig)
All The Doodz (ig)
Wee Nuls (ig)
Glen Molloy x2 (ig)
Hixxy (ig)
Ed Hicks (ig) – on the Sunflower side of the street
Danny Rumbl (ig)
NOL (ig)
Andrey Palval (ig)

[Nol faces] see the Paddy Duffy collection

[Owl] see the Paddy Duffy collection

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X12311 X12312 X12313 X12314 X12315 X12316 X12310
X12309 X12308
X12324

Hit The North – Kent Street

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a gallery of the new pieces from Hit The North 2023 on the north side of Kent Street (there is a separate post for the south side and there is a separate post at Paddy Duffy’s site for Kent Street above Union Street).

From left to right (top to bottom in this post), the artists are:

Zippy (ig)
Alana McDowell (ig)
Asbestos (ig)
Angry Dan (ig)
?TMN krew?
Sufek West
Hallion – “Цe нaшe поле до біса” [this is our hell on earth] – a common description of the battle for Bakhmut by Ukranian soldiers (AP | France24 | CNN); this was the last of several slogans painted by Hallion throughout the festival (tw)
RASK (ig) + STER (ig) + SUMS (ig)

[writing]

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X12297
X12298
X12306
X12307
X12323 X12299
X12300
X12301 X12302 X12303

DUP, Go Back To Work

Extramural Activity1 Comment

After the May, 2022, elections that resulted in Sinn Féin being the largest party, the Assembly met twice but on both occasions the DUP refused to participate in a vote for speaker after which Stormont could not function. The DUP explained its boycott of the Assembly as a form of protest at the NI Protocol and voted against the “Windsor Framework” intended to resolve those problems (Sky News). Various deadlines have passed, a pay-cut is threatened (Belfast Live), but, as it stands currently, there will not be a new Assembly election under January, 2024 (Guardian | BBC).

A Belfast Live poll three weeks ago found that 75% of respondents thought the rules should be changed to allow Stormont to be restored without DUP co-operation.

Council elections take place on May 18th (BBC).

Limavady Road, Londonderry, east of the Caw.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Andy McDonagh/Eclipso Pictures (ig | Fb)
X12243 X12244

Palestinian Solidarity

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

There has been graffiti art of the side wall of what was Vogue Hair & Beauty and is currently the Kurdish barbers since 2008 (see Visual History 11) but in 2018 the wall was claimed by Saoradh (web) with a mural depicting the Palestinian flag (see From The River To The Sea – it has recently been repainted) and a changing message to the right-hand side – currently a pair of IRPWA “No extradition’ boards.

See also the old Linden Street, where Resistance Is Not Terrorism took over from a TMN homage to Bodé (but was itself later replaced by a tribute to Norah McCabe).

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X12186 X12185

A Wall For All

Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A new braille plaque bearing the now-iconic saying “You are now enterting Free Derry” was unveiled last Tuesday (January 24th) by the founder of Children In Crossfire Richard Moore (featured previously in The Derry Lama) who was blinded in 1972 when he was hit with a rubber bullet.

Derry Journal has a gallery of images from the launch.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2023 Andy McDonagh/Eclipso Pictures (ig | Fb)
X11973 X11971 [X11970] X11972