****On-Going Project****
East Belfast is solidly loyalist but there is a small republican area immediately east of the Lagan, known as Short Strand, home to about 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 in the main north-south route through the area. The northern end was in former times heavily industrialised but all that remains now is the bus depot, the eastern wall of which provides a long surface and a prominent site for republican murals.
Free Sean Kelly
(unattributed image)
2006
Charlie Monahan
(M02912)
Bobby Sands
(M02909)
(M02906)
Wear An Easter Lily replaces Free Sean Kelly

2009
2010
… and Dublin, Belfast, Cork And Donegal
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)