History Is Written By The Winners

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Queen’s University lecturer in economic history Miriam Daly took over as chairwoman of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party) after founder Seamus Costello was killed in a feud with the IRA. Daly was shot dead in 1980 by the UDA/UFF in her Andersonstown home in 1980. (Interview with husband Jim Daly.)

A long-standing and much-graffitied 1996 mural, History Is Written By The Winner (painted by son Donal Daly among others) was replaced in 2014 by a Joey Ramone mural for a U2 video competition (Murals Of Innocence). The new board shown in today’s images was launched yesterday (Sunday 2016-12-04) to a crowd of about 200. As the final image shows, the PSNI were also “in attendance”.

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Dreph By Dreph

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Self-portrait by Neequaye Dreph (web | Tw) for CNB16 in Kent Street.

Previosusly: Dreph’s work for CNB15 | CNB14

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Hidden Gem

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Here’s INKIE’s (WP | Fb | Web) contribution to this years’ Culture Night Belfast/Hit The North. It is tucked in behind the Arts Resource Centre in Commercial Court.

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Over The Top

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(British Army) soldiers silhouetted against the sunrise go over the top during World War I.

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The Strawman

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Today is officially the last day to catch the Royal Ulster Academy Of Art’s Art In The City exhibition of paintings on wall around Belfast. Shown here is Neil Shawcross’s Willie James Hayes, The Strawman 1980 which is hanging in Gordon Street.

Previously: Dan Dowling’s Big Daddy’s Funeral

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Rubeys

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Work by Veronica Wallis as part of the Royal Ulster Academy Of Art’s Art In The City exhibition of work on walls around Belfast city centre. This one is in Hill Street.

Previously from the exhibition: Dan Dowling’s Big Daddy’s Funeral

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Consider The Lobster

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A lobster is removed from the pot and is about to be served. Street art by Glasgow-based SMUG (Insta) for Culture Night Belfast 2016.

Previously: Mussen Cortège

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A Thought Is Not A lot

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Complementing the images from Ulster Tower Street, here are images of the new commemorative boards and their blue backgrounds. The main board features Ulster Tower at Thiepval with a list of battles that the 36th (Ulster) Division was involved in.

The smaller board on the side-wall features a poem from local children: “The Great War took a lot of Pray/It’s hard to say w[h]ere all these brave men lay/A lot of souls still waiting to be found/Buried deep below the ground.//In the fields w[h]ere the bright red poppies grow/Stood men so brave of fight and foe/Some men so young they just didn’t know/A journey with friends they all wanted to go.// When they got there what a different tail [tale] they did tell/Many letters home describing it as hell/Young men put to front to fight/We can only imagine the awful sight.//Fighting beside their mate to keep Britain great/And we still remember them till this date/Nearly one hundred years on/A lot of these great men have gone/Forget them we will not as a thought is not a lot.”

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Ulster Tower Street

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For the anniversary of the Battle Of Albert and the start of the Battle Of The Somme, Tower Street in east Belfast became Ulster Tower Street and residents reproduced the Western Front, with huts of sandbags, canvas coverings for all the front walls, and headlines from the News Letter (“Ulster’s Sacrifice”) and Times (“Britain At War”) of the period. Images of the new murals can be found in A Thought Is Not A Lot.

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Among The Fallen

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As part of the Poppy Trail, boards bearing the names, ages, addresses, and service units of Belfast casualties during WWI have been erected on walls and lampposts near their homes. Above: William Bloomer from Matilda Street in south Belfast. Below: Thomas Magowan from Tower Street in east Belfast.

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