Dublin-based street artist Le Bas (web) was in Belfast for CNB/HTN. Here’s an interview with Le Bas about his process.
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Different Intuition
We Will Never Accept A United Ireland
Writing has appeared alongside the “Show No Mercy Expect None Back” mural in Ballyclare. On one side : “We will never accept [was originally “except” but this was quickly changed] a united Ireland – Feriens Tego [the UFF motto]” and “Now entering loyalist Erskine/Rashee Park – Quis separabit [the UDA motto]” and on the other: “Ballyclare heartland of south east Antrim – Simply the best [used with both UDA and UFF]”
The final image is from July, when the wall had been ‘booked’ for the UDA.
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Improving Your Environment
On the side of the hair salon on the lower Shankill: an array of flags and a board “in glorious memory” to the 36th (XXVI) Ulster division: Somme, Messines, ypres, Cambrai, Thiepval, Somme (1918), St Quentin, Lys, Courtrai
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X03874 lest we forget
Who Fears A United Ireland?
The night before he was executed for his part in the Easter Rising, republican leader James Connolly (5.6.1888-12.5.1916) penned a brief statement calling the British presence in Ireland “a usurpation and a crime against human progress” and declaring “The British government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, never can have any right in Ireland”. Here are two images of Free Derry corner with Connolly’s quote, including The Petrol Bomber by the Bogside Artists and and “SFRY” (Sinn Féin Republican Youth) banner on the railings.
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Fringe Girl
Another “fringe girl” by Dublin street artists Novice (Tw) for CNB16/HTN. Hopefully this one will last longer than last year’s piece.
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X03909 Kent St
The Dead Man’s Penny
“The Memorial Plaque (Death Penny [or Dead Man’s Penny]) was issued after the First World War to the next of kin of all British and Empire Service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.” The “penny” was in fact five inches in diameter and cast in bronze. It showed Britannia with a trident and two dolphins swimming around her, and a lion on oak, along with the name of the deceased (here, Ronald Mitchison) without indication of rank. (Here is a close-up of a plaque from WP.) The board shown above contains other information about WWI, centrally including the statement that “The 16th Irish Division, the Connaught Rangers [7th battalion] and the Irish Rifles [7th battalion], all fought side-by-side throughout World War I.”
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End Internment
32 County Sovereignty Movement (web) graffiti on the Alliance Avenue “peace” line.
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What Big Teeth You Have
Death Drivers
“Death drivers are killing the community” – anti-joy-riding mural in Beechmount with a skeletal head crashing through a windscreen.
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X03286 Beechmount ave
Tony “TC” Catney
IRA volunteer Tony “TC” Catney died in August 2014 and a volley of shots was fired over his coffin (Tele), but a memorial event was held in August 2016. To advertise the event, the IRPWA has commandeered the hoarding at corner of Divis and Northumberland streets. Catney was imprisoned at the age of 16 for the 1974 killing of Maurice Knowles. In recent times he was an RNU and JFTC2 supporter.
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X03729 Northumberland St
Extramural Activity 