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Life in Belfast as represented on its walls – Murals, Graffiti, Street Art

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Bone Memorial 2

2013-06-062021-11-28Extramural Activity1 Comment

Memorial garden and mural in Clós Ard An Lao, in Ardoyne, in remembrance of 38 local people (“from the greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna area”) who died during the troubles. Previously seen in 2010. Click and click again to enlarge (to…

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Belfast, Belfast - north, CNR, plaque

Our Friends And Comrades

2013-05-242015-10-28Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A fourth piece from Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close, a short, dead-end, street in Ard Eoin/Ardoyne. “In memory of our friends and comrades. This memorial is dedicated to all those Irish Republicans who fought in the struggle for Irish freedom…

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Belfast, Belfast - north, four provinces, Tricolour

Marie Le Bonn

2013-05-212021-12-14Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

A small memorial garden in Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close. There is no record at all, on-line at least, of a Marie Le Bonn. “Marrowbone” is sometimes thought to be a corruption of “Marie Le Bone” (and “Marylebone” in London…

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Belfast, CNR, metalwork

Bone Memorial

2013-05-162015-10-28Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Two memorial boards in Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close, one to volunteers and the other to victims of violence, from the surrounding areas, the Bone, Ballybone and Cliftonville. The text on the first read, “In proud and loving memory of…

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Belfast, CNR, four provinces

All Our Dead

2013-05-062018-06-28Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

In addition to three plaques, a wrought-iron head-piece, multiple flag-pole holders and railings fencing in a small area (which includes an encased figure of Jesus, at right), this mural in Clós Ard An Lao/Ardilea Close in Ardoyne uses painted discs…

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Belfast, breaks plane, four provinces, knot-work, plaque

From The Greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna

2010-05-192018-07-18Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Memorial garden and mural in Clós Ard An Lao, in Ardoyne, in remembrance of 38 local people (“from the greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna area”) who died during the troubles. Click and click again to enlarge (to 2400 x 1600) Copyright…

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1798/1803/pike, Belfast - north, celtic cross, CNR, mural, plaque

Republican Prisoners Still Exist!

2022-09-132022-09-11Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their…

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Belfast, Belfast - west, board, Bobby Sands, CNR, IRPWA, POWs, tricoloured green-white-orange

Óglach Sean McCaughey

2022-07-012022-07-01Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Sean McCaughey was born in Aughnacloy but the family moved to Ardoyne when he was six years old (both Duneden Park and Heathfield Road are mentioned). He was IRA acting chief of staff when he was arrested in 1941 and…

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Belfast, Belfast - north, board, CIRA/RIRA/ONH/RNU/32CSM/New IRA, CNR, Gaeilge

Their Blood Our Cause Has Sanctified

2021-08-202021-12-17Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

For the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Hunger Strike, portraits of the deceased ten (plus Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan from the 1970s) were placed on the railings of the Ballymurphy memorial garden. There is a new (compared to 2006…

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Belfast, Belfast - west, board, CNR, four provinces, Gaeilge, hunger strike, IRA, lily - Easter, mural, plaque, POWs, Tricolour

Behind Bars

2017-12-162017-12-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

IRPWA is the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (web | Fb | tw), a body working to support republican prisoners and their families in Maghaberry, Portlaoise, and Hydebank. Barbed wire has long been the symbol of political prisoners, both republican (1981)…

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barbed wire, board, CNR, IRPWA, London-/Derry, POWs
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