The Sun Of Your Bravery Laid Siege To Death

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“Hasta siempre, Comandante” is a 1956 song celebrating the life of Che Guevara, with Fidel Castro appearing in the final verse to join the Cuban people in saying “Hasta siempre, Comandante” to Che as he departs Cuba for the Simba Rebellion in Congo. The slogan is here applied to Fidel himself on the occasion of his death in November 2016 at the age of 90.

Here is French singer Nathalie Cardone’s version on the song, which reached #2 in France and #1 in Belgium in 1997:

The Castro mural is next to one for fellow Marxist Salvadore Allende of Chile: see La Historia Es Nuestra.

See also Hasta La Victoria Siempre.

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God Of Madness

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Glen Molloy’s Jack Nicholson takes the place of Jonny McKerr’s Bacchus on the wall of Direct Wine Shipments in Corporation Street.

See the final entry in the series for an overview.

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Large Vehicles Emerging Ahead

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IRPWA sticker on a road sign in Dalton St (Bridge End), east Belfast.

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Carrie Fisher

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Despite the “Work in progress!” tag, this Glen Molloy (ig) mural to the recently deceased Carrie Fisher (in the guise of Princess Leia from Star Wars) didn’t go any further. Fisher died two days after George Michael, to whom Molly also painted a tribute.

Loopland Park, Belfast.

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Never Give Up

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Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders makes an appearance in an inspirational poster in Garfield St. The connection to the colonel is perhaps that his idea for a fried chicken restaurant was turned down 300 times | Snopes. If you know better, please get in touch.

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Nostalgia

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Children’s drawings of houses complete a mural for the Equality Can’t Wait/Build Homes Now (Fb | web) mural that has remained unfinished for a long time on Northumberland Street – the intermediate stage in the last image below, beneath a lamppost sticker for the campaign.

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Hasta La Victoria Siempre

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“¡Hasta la victoria siempre!” (“Ever onward to victory!”) was a saying of Che Guevara’s. It is used in this mural as a valediction to Che comrade and long-time Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who died at the end of November (2016). The portrait of Castro is perhaps this Korda image of Castro entering Havana after the deposition of Batista in 1959.

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Arts For All

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In addition to many paintings in a distinctive style, Belfast artist John Luke’s (one | two) work included a few murals, most famously an image of Belfast’s Charter painted in the City Hall. He lends his name to the gallery in north Belfast’s Arts For All centre which is now fronted by a mural in his style.

For the undead in the windows of the taxi office, see Haunted.

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Cross Of Peace

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A Christian cross was added (in early 2015?) to the dove and oak leaf on Rossville Street, Derry. For a 2013 image of the previous version, see Network.

The official title of the work is The Peace Mural. For more, see the Visual History page on the Bogside Artists.

Bogside Artist William Kelly passed away today, 2017-01-10 (Derry Journal).

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Homeless … No Less

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Artist Glen Molloy (Fb) has painted a series of three faces, inspired by seeing some homeless people being given abuse on the street and “painted to highlight how badly people living on the streets of Belfast can be treated by the general public”. Here is audio of Glen on U105 talking about the project.

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