A toreador appears to suffer a crisis of conscience. Work by Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded, steadyhandeddie) for Hit The East.
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Beast Of Burden
Between The Houses
Work by Belfast-based Wexford artist Esther O’Kelly for the Hit The East paint-jam, between the three pieces to the left and DMC’s Three Missed Calls.
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Art In The Alley
Here’s a shot of all the activity taking place during Hit The East last weekend in the alley between Bloomfield Avenue and Laburnum Court.
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Hit The East
Here are the first three pieces from the Bloomfield Avenue end of last weekend’s Hit The East street art festival. Above is a quartet of elephants by Falko One (Tw | Inst | Fb). (He painted elephants in other places, too.)
Below is printmaker Leo Boyd mounting his poster ‘This Machine Kills Machines’. (Lots of previous work by Leo.) The finished work also included ‘Turn Off, Tune Out’.
Next to that is work by Dublin artists ESTR (Emmalene Blake web) and Lanni Powder (ig).
(The next piece in the alley is one by Esther O’Kelly.)
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Church & State
Henry VIII had himself declared head of the church in 1531 and the English monarch has retained this title since then (with the exception of Mary I who briefly restored the Pope and Catholicism). England has “no superior under God, but only your Grace” (Act Concerning Peter’s Pence). The current holder of both crown and office is Queen (“R” for “regina”) Elizabeth II. Shown today is another celebration of the 500th anniversary of “Pro-Testant Reformation” in Tiger’s Bay, next to the workers of WWI mural.
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Bunscoıl Croí Sácráılte
Fáılte go dtí bunscoıl Croí Sácráılte (Welcome to Sacred Heart primary school). Three school-children are shown in Cliftonville soccer and Antrim hurling strips, as well as in the school’s black uniform.
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Divis Bonfire 2017
There were riots last night in the Divis and Markets areas of the city, after material for August 9th anti-internment bonfires was removed (Tele). On the lower Falls, the disused Credit Union building on Ross Road was burned down (Belfast Live). Here are three images from last week of graffiti from the Townsend Street side of the Divis Street from the Divis Hoods Liberation Army (DHLA).
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Let Us Entertain You
The LPOW mural in Harvey Court dates back to 1997, to the release of political prisoners as part of the Good Friday Agreement. A recent (2015) version can be seen at Consolidate The Peace. The new mural features performers Jonny Jones, John Calvert, Tony Jones, and Sylvia Pavis. It was painted by Blaze FX with sponsorship from Charter NI and the Housing Executive.
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Join The People’s Army
Another vintage IRA image is reproduced, not a road sign like Sniper At Work but a badge, which originally had “provisionals” rather than “IRA”.
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The Battalion Of The Dead
Gary “Magoo” McCann is honoured as “a dedicated Vol of 2nd Battalion C Coy Village who on the 17-11-2016 was called to join his friends and comrades in the Battalion of The Dead” in a new Red Hand Commando board on Frenchpark Street below the memorial to Sammy Mehaffy, John Hanna, and Steve McCrea. Tributes were paid by South Belfast Protestant Boys and Linfield Supporters Club who called him “a Village legend”. The mural in the second image (below) is on Donegall Avenue, under the Tates Avenue bridge, on the way to the Railway stand at Windsor Park.
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Extramural Activity 