Amazing Night At Larne

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“Amazing night at Larne – Wholesale gun-running — Thousands of rifles landed — Three-and-a-half million cartidges – Motors from far and near – Astounding achievement — Special To Telegraph”.

The weapons on board the Clyde Valley began their journey on a different ship, the Fanny. However, Fanny’s papers were siezed by Danish authorities, as they thought the weapons were destined for home-rulers in Iceland! The ship escaped in bad weather and Clyde Valley sailed from Glasgow to the Irish sea off Wexford where it met Fanny, took the materiel on board, and temporarily renamed itself Mountjoy II using canvas sheets. From there, it sailed to Larne and then Bangor, off-loading weapons in both places for use by the Ulster Volunteers.

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The Huntress

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Here are two close-ups of Friz’s The Huntress, with dog straining at the chain within sight of the deer leaping in the background. The piece was painted in Kent Street for CNB16/Hit The North, with Danleo’s Palm Cockatoo in the background.

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Big Daddy’s Funeral

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The Royal Ulster Academy Of Art’s Art In The City exhibition, which runs through October and November, puts (reproductions of) 12 works of art on the Belfast streets. The work shown above is Dan Dowling’s Big Daddy’s Funeral – the funeral is happening just left of the bus, outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in Donegall Street, which is where the painting itself can be found.

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Race Of Legends

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The town of Armoy, County Antrim, hosts an annual motorcycling road race, the Race Of Legends. The windows of the (closed) Victory Bar is filled with images of motorcyclists. Robert Dunlop is shown above and brother Joey is two windows to the left. Both brothers died as a result of racing accidents. Sons William and Michael are also featured.

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Conflict

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Work by Spanish artist Sabek in Belfast city centre for Culture Night/Hit The North.

Last year for CNB15 he painted a spear and a snake. The wide shot below shows his piece next to Dan Kitchener’s Blurry Eyed.

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Blurry Eyed

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Street art by English artist Dan Kitchener for CNB16. Streets are already blurry at night in the rain, but the title perhaps come from the fact that Dan started the mural at night right after flying in from London.

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JFT14

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These republican slogans are on the fencing along Southway, Derry. “End internment”, “1916 – 2016 Unfinished business”, “IRA”, “JFT14” = “Justice for the 14 [Bloody Sunday victims]”, and “Brits out”.

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The Children Of Lear

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Step-mother Aoıfe resents the bonds between her husband Lear and his children and their love for their lost mother and turns them into singing swans for 900 years, by the end of which time Christianity had come to Ireland. A monk heard their song and recognised them. At his touch, they are restored to human form. Being 900 years old, they die immediately but not before being baptised.

For another ‘baptised before death’ story, see the story of the mermaid Lí Ban in Sea-Born.

This is the third of three Celtic mythology boards in Creggan/An Creagán, Derry. See previously: Tír Na nÓg and Cú Chulaınn.

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The Battle Of Antiville

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The experts’ best guess is that the gentleman on the white horse (on the right of the painting) is James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, at the siege of Maastricht in 1673. Scott was commander of the English forces fighting with the French during the Franco-Dutch war. It’s not clear, thus, what the connection is to the Antiville area of Larne or the wars fought in Ireland over the English crown. It was painted by Jan Wyck, who also did a painting of the Battle of the Boyne. On either side (as shown below) are a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and the English version of the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom.

This trio of boards has been added to a wall behind the Antiville community centre, softening (somewhat) a very aggressive set of six UDA boards (seen in UDA Flag Bearer and Secret Army Silhouettes.)

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