****On-Going Project****
East Belfast is solidly PUL but there is a small CNR area immediately east of the Lagan, known as Short Strand, home to roughly 6,000 Catholics – about one tenth of the population of east Belfast.
St Matthew’s (Catholic) church on Bryson Street serves as the north-east perimeter of Short Strand and was the site of a gun battle in the early Troubles in which three people were killed and which proved the strength of the recently-formed Provisional IRA (Battle Of St Matthew’s).
Mountpottinger Road is a main north-south route through the area. The northern end was in former times heavily industrialised (hence the street names “Chemical Street” and “Vulcan Street”) but all of that is now gone. The eastern wall of the bus depot that was built on part of the old works yards provides a long surface and a prominent site for republican murals.
1998? Claiming Equality



(D00771 D00772 D00773)
1995-2005 Rísteard Ó Cíonga/Richard J King’s Éire and locals; Proclamation side-wall later became a Sands quote


(D00259)
2000 The Clockwork Orangemen
(D00906)
2002
Éire with Sands quote
(M01683)
(M01684)
Hunger Strikers



(D00904 D00905 see also M01689)
End The Siege Of Short Strand (David And Goliath) painted over far right of Hunger Strikers
(M01690)
Free Sean Kelly
(Unattributed X05608)
2006
Charlie Monahan
(M02912)
Bobby Sands
(M02909)
(M02906)
Wear An Easter Lily replaces Free Sean Kelly

2009
2010
… and Dublin, Belfast, Cork And Donegal
(M06875)
2014 – The wall is completely filled in: three IRPWA murals are added in the corner, along with a JFTC2 mural, and Éire is replaced by a Gaza solidarity mural.
Charlie Monahan (2006) | IRPWA (2014) | Maghaberry (2014) | Short Strand Supports POWs (2014) | JFTC2 (2014) | Vote Ó’Donnghaile (2011) | Dublin, Belfast, Cork, And Donegal (2011) | Short Strand Supports Gaza (Do Not Disturb) (2014) | Understand The Past | Palestinian Flag (2009)
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