End Internment

32 County Sovereignty Movement (web) graffiti on the Alliance Avenue “peace” line.

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What Big Teeth You Have

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Appropriate for Halloween: two pieces of scary street art by HIMBAD (Tw | Insta). Above, a sheep in wolf’s clothing, perhaps. And below, a BIG cat!

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Death Drivers

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“Death drivers are killing the community” – anti-joy-riding mural in Beechmount with a skeletal head crashing through a windscreen.

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Tony “TC” Catney

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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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Up Under The Earth

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Multi-storey street art by KVLR (Kev Largey) for Culture Night Belfast.

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Secret Army Silhouettes

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Secret army silhouettes of the UDA’s 3rd Battalion, D Company from Antiville, Larne.

The first wide shot, below, shows the complete line-up of UDA/UFF/UYM boards, including Eddie acting as a UDA flag-bearer. The second shows the royal family boards on the north side of the wall.

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Show Me The Man

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The Martin Meehan tarp in Ardoyne Avenue has been removed and the wall whitewashed. At the moment, all there is to be seen is the plaque shown above – Show Me The Man, Martin Meehan 1945 – 2007 – and a Cogús board – “End strip searching in Maghaberry now”.

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Where’s Our Graduated Response?

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Carrickfergus United Loyalists portray Peter Robinson, Mike Nesbitt, and Theresa Villiers as the three monkeys who “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil”. The evil that they fail to recognize is the oppression of Orange culture in the form of the blocked 2013 parade at the Ardoyne shops. The march was completed and the protest camp dismantled on October 1st. (NewsLetter) The phrase “graduated response” comes from the Unionist response to the collapse of 2014 talks. (Irish News)

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Are You A Robot?

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Leo Boyd screen-printed a version of his “bird feeder” piece onto the wall in Garfield Street for CNB/HTN, and also (below) the Closed Circuit Camera Book Reader at Keats & Chapman. (See Leo’s tumblr for his “tech heads” and “tele heads” series.)

Previously: Big Men Wail Hammers | When Urban Love Goes Wrong | Oh You Pretty Thing

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COYBIG

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“Come on, you boys in green!” Here’s a mural from the summer, when Ireland (and Northern Ireland) took part in the European soccer championships. The Euro 2016 trophy is at the centre of an Irish Tricolour.

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