Polish-language graffiti in the Village (south Belfast) – Radomski Patologia (Radom Pathology, Radom is a city in Poland) – below blacked-out graffiti about a paedophile.
On the side wall, “House breakers beware”. (See previously: Romanian Housebreakers Beware)
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Another “Lá Dearg” – organised by An Dream Dearg (the red group) takes place next Saturday with a march from An Cultúrlann to the city hall. The image above shows graffiti in Divis Street; the image below shows posters for the event on the Lıú Lúnasa mural.
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“CRF” graffiti on the Northumberland Street security gates outside New Life City church. The Catholic Reaction Force — a “reaction” to the Protestant “Action” Force — declared a ceasefire in 1994.
Previous CRF sightings: Speaking In Code in Beechmount | Badly Drawn, Boy in Glengormley.
Previous images from the New Life courtyard.
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Seán Ó Rıordan was aged 13 when “killed in action by British crown forces” on Cawnpore Street on 23rd March 1972 (Sutton) and he is buried in Milltown cemetery. The 1977 Protocol I of the Geneva Convention would later prohibit conscription of children younger than 15 but allow for their voluntary participation. It is thus notable that this new board to “Fıann [sic] Seán Ó Rıordan” was “erected by the family”.
Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá/Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast.
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“Ourma says if you stick t’herown diet of landandairy prod you’ll be firmanna an’trim down” – a saying in which the names of all six Northern Irish counties are (phonetically) included. Above it are a variety of vintage advertisements from the late 1800s and early 1900s: Mew’s brewery (Isle of Wight), Lloyd & Yorath’s stout (Newport, Wales), Hall’s paints (Hull), Batey’s ginger beer (London), Campbell & Menzies’s shipments of Oporto wines, Gilbey’s wines, Gold Flake tobacco (in both English and Irish: Sásuíonn sıad!).
For images of the piece being produced (and in its original location), see Ciaran Gallagher’s web site. For the pieces just visible below, see Conflict Tourism and Game Of Throats.
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Graffiti against both the IRA (“Your [You’re] a scumbag Martin McGuinness” and “Provo bastards”) and the police (“PSNI scum”) in the Village, south Belfast.
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Notice to muralists: this stretch of the Northumberland Street wall is “reserved for official republican movement”.
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Close-up of an electrical box on Royal Avenue, the leaves underneath are by Caolan Doyle, the remains of a poster provide the red face.
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Antifa Belfast (Tw) stencil in Winetavern Street (where the Molotov Snowman was). The red and black Antifaschistische Aktion flag was previously seen in #Gaza.
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Three memorials to “Hutchy 1985-2017” in Belfast city centre. The first in North Street replacing the recent Young Peacebuilders mural, the second and third in Garfield Street, as part of an ANOC tag (over the other Gonzales piece, FEEL) and over MarcaMix’s CNB15 piece.
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