****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)
Éire mural with portraits
(M02906)
Wear An Easter Lily replaces Free Sean Kelly
(M02903)2009
Palestinian Flag
(M06874 2011 image of 2009 flag)
2010
Wear An Easter Lily replaced by Understand The Past
(M05647)
(M05647)2011
Two murals added in blank space to the left of Éire. Vote Ó Donnghaile …
(M06873)
… 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)
