Bridge

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Yesterday we featured the work of the “Ambassadors For Peace” on the Shankill-side gate on Northumberland Street, and today is the turn of the Falls-side gate. Like the upper gate, this one features figures holding hands, though this time on a bridge over a river.

The mural replaces the CRF graffiti on the gate.

For comparison of the gates before and after the new paintings, the second image is of the interior of the Shankill gate.

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Celtronic 17

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Celtronic 17 took place June 28th-July 2nd. The Hungerstrike & North West Volunteers commemoration took place on May 21st. Rear of Free Derry Corner.

Previously: Celtonic 16

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We Shall Overcome

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The Museum Of Free Derry was officially opened last month (June, 2017). On the exterior wall is an engraved sound wave of the crowd singing We Shall Overcome on Bloody Sunday. The piece was created by Locky Morris (web). (BBC)

Glenfada Park, Derry

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Ambassadors For Peace

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Young people from the Shankill, Divis, and Newington came together as “Ambassadors For Peace” (Fb) with students from Susquehanna University in the US to paint the two outer sides of the gates in the Northumberland Street “peace” line. Shown today is the Shankill side. (Images of the work in progress can be found on Belfast Live.)

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LA’s Walk Of Fame

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Holy Cross Girls’ Primary is a Catholic school within the loyalist enclave of Glenbryn in upper Ardoyne. Although it is in the style of the Los Angeles Dodgers (baseball team) “LA” in this case stands for “loyalist Ardoyne”. The school was the site of some extraordinary scenes during 2001 as police and army formed a cordon against local protesters so that children could reach the school. (See It’s Black And White.)

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Short, Bark & Sides

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Commercial mural on a dog grooming shop on the Antrim Road at the Waterworks with a Game Of Thrones theme – “The north remembers” is the name of an episode in which the Direwolf “Grey Wind” appears.

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Super Bigot Edition

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A reductive front page describing the contents of the British tabloid The Daily Mail: “Fiction, xenophobia, straight bananas, and women’s health.” Artist unknown. (Please get in touch!)

See also: No British Tabloids from 1996.

(Above is TLO’s Good Year For A Bonfire.)

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Labelz Are For Jars

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“Labelz are for jars, not for people.” Paste-up from Dublin artist ADW (web | Fb) in the style of a Heinz ketchup label.

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As Long As 99 Of Us Remain Alive

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The gunman on the left of the first mural at Freedom Corner (see previously) has been painted out. The scroll on the right reads “For as long as one hundred of us remain alive we shall never in anyway consent to submit to the Irish for it’s not for glory, honour or riches we fight but for freedom alone which no man loses but with his life – U.D.A./U.F.F”

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The Pied Piper Of Ballybeen

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Many of the characters in this (unfinished) Ballybeen mural appear to be from The Lord Of The Rings but there is also the piper featured above.

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