Like The Foam From The Fountain, Like The Mist From The Mountain

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02867 2015-08-26 MacFadzean+

Twenty-year-old William Frederick McFadzean from Lurgan won the Victoria Cross for throwing himself on top of a crate of hand grenades that fell into his trench on July 1st (WP), the first day of the battle of the Somme; July 1st and 2nd would see 5,000 of his comrades from the 36th (Ulster) Division killed or wounded. The portrait on which the image is based can be seen at CultureNI.

Here’s a recording of the song composed in his honour:

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Maghaberry Torture Camp

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02822 2015-08-24 MaghaberryTortureCamp+

Here are three boards in Derry focused on HMP Maghaberry. The high security prison holds 1,000 prisoners and segregates loyalists and republicans, a situation described as “a festering sore” in a recent inspection. (Tele) Republicans say that the current crisis overlooks existing issues such as controlled movement and strip searches. (Irish News)

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Big Men Wail Hammers

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03047 2015-09-24 For The Productions Of Lemons+

Here are the six posters created by Leo Boyd to accompany a poem by Nathaniel McAuley for CNB15. Four are photographs taken in situ; two others are from Leo’s instagram.

A City-wide Initiative
for the [mass] Production
of Lemons

Instead,
the city plants
for lemons.

Big men wail hammers
parting the streets
in search of earth

seeds grow in
the cupped hands
of patient children

and shoot
from inside pockets
out of sleeves and collars.

Every hole in the wall
is over-packed
with knots of root.

Within the year
the luminescent
cache of fruit

is promised
to be vast enough
to displace night.

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Socialist Volunteers

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The board above, on Derry’s Racecourse Road, commemorates two hunger-strikers from Derry, Patsy O’Hara and Michael Devine, both members of the INLA; the third INLA hunger-striker was Kevin Lynch, from nearby Dungiven. The seven others who died were members of the IRA, whose political wing was Sınn Féın, while the Irish Republican Socialist Party, who sponsored this board, serves as the political face of the INLA.

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Nan With The Pearl Earring

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Vermeer’s original is given a local twist in this piece of street art by David McClelland (web) for CNB15.

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Security Arrangements

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Visual Waste’s The Mark Of Zorro (from 2012 CNB/HTN) has become a sticker for the artist (web | Fb).

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Workers & Warriors

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For Armistice Day commemorations 2015 an old mural (below) depicting east Belfast mill workers in cloth caps going to work beneath the H&W cranes was replaced with an image of a single soldier standing over a WWI burial cross with head bowed. In front are the same kind of small wooded crosses and poppies featured on Saturday (Row On Row) from Pitt Park. By Glenn Black and Ken Maze of Blaze FX (web).

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Pristine Wilderness

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03042 2015-09-23 Filth CNB15 Camping+

Work by This Is Filth (Fb) in the city centre shows an idyllic scene: a campfire burning beneath a crescent moon over the mountains.

Replaces: Chips & Ketchup

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The F-Bomb

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03158 2015-11-06 FTPSNIRA+

Three F-bombs today in a concentrated package. Above we have the PSNI and the IRA combined into one (and next to a swastika, not shown) in Maladon Street, south Belfast. Below, we have “Fuck the TV man, part 3” in Roulston Street in Londonderry’s Waterside. And finally, there is is “Fuck DAAD fags” on the New Lodge Road in north Belfast. “DAAD” stands for “direct action against drugs”, a group which counted Kevin McGuigan and Jock Davison as members (both of whom were killed in a feud this summer) and now goes by “AAD”. (For AAD and the murders of Davison and McGuigan see Irish News | Belfast Telegraph | Guardian.)

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Row On Row

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03175 2015-11-12 Pitt Crosses Crane 3+

Thousands of small wooden crosses, with names and a poppy, were placed in Pitt Park, east Belfast, between November 1st and 11th to commemorate those who fell during WWI. The Last Post was sounded each night at 8. We present here four images of the scene. The event and a similar one on the Shankill (both going by the name Row By Row) were organised by the Dr. Pitt Park Centenary Committee and the Royal British Legion. (City Council minutes)

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