Here is another mural, this time in west Belfast, in the campaign demanding a response to a shortage in low-income housing. For more, see previously, Equality Can’t Wait.
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Loyalist paramilitary flags went up in the Skegoneill area of north Belfast last week and drew the response above. The area is mixed (Catholic, Protestant) and the adjacent Glandore area is Catholic.
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At the bottom of Divis tower: a wheel of hands from children of different races exhorts residents to overlook differences in skin-tone (“one race, one love, one world”) while the letterbox has been repainted green instead of red.
For the board without obstruction, see M08774
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X03460 divis st west belfast area project divis youth belfast city council
Local artist Friz teamed up with London painter ARTiSTA* to produce this new mural outside the (recently-saved-from-demolition) Sunflower bar (replacing KVLR’s Pizza Pipe). Artista painted the violin with legs on the left while Friz painted the girl on the right wearing winged headphones. Work-in-progress shots can be seen on the Sunflower’s Fb page.
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“Richard Mussen joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th foot) at the age of 15. At the outbreak of the Zulu wars he volunteered for active service and was transferred to the Second Battalion The South Wales Borderers (24th foot). At the outbreak of the Great War he joined the 9th Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles and with him went his 4 sons and 2 sons-in-law. His son Richard (junior) was killed at the Somme on Thursday 21st March, 1918 and is remembered at Pozieres Memorial. Richard Mussen was buried from 22 Dundee Street [which was just above Agnes Street] on 29/12/1936 and was accorded full Military Honours. He was laid to rest in Belfast City Cemetery.” (From the plaque shown in image #3, below.)
Here is a short NVTv documentary about Mussen, including (at 12m25s) the image on which the mural shown here is based. The mural was done with spray paint by artist Sam Bates a.k.a. SMUG. It was unveiled on June 24th, 2011.
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Coláıste Feırste, Cumann Áıtrıtheoırí Na bhFál [Falls Resisdents’ Association], Cumman Cluaın Ard mural in Divis, west Belfast.
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Three images of initialisms: Above in Milner Street, “UVF” [Ulster Volunteer Force] has been painted over but “UDA” [Ulster Defence Association], “Q/S” [quis separabit], and “RSD” [Roden Street Defenders] remain.
In the second image, in Beechmount Grove, we have “CRF” [Catholic Reaction Force?], “UTH” [Up the hoods], “FTDHLA”, [Eff the Divis Hoods Liberation Army”, FTW” [Free the weed?], “FTONH” [Eff the Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann]
The last (in Percy St) is left as an exercise for the reader. (Or: we have no idea what “code 5” is.)
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A child’s face — work by emic (web) in the Menagerie car park, University Street, south Belfast.
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In a lay-by just off Montrose Street: a Union Flag and St. Andrew’s Saltire.
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The Easter Lily on a red, five-pointed, star ties together the centenary of the Easter Rising with republican socialism: another IRSP/INLA stencilled mural — see previously, National Liberation And Socialism — this one in Beechmount.
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X03406 X03407 X03408 X03409 beechmount ave movement IRSP INLA national liberation army starry plough remembers and salutes all those who gave their lives and liberty in the struggle for liberation and socialism in ireland
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