Waterside, Cityside, Quayside

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02872 2015-08-26 SperrinPkFilm+

The Peace Bridge is shown spanning the Foyle between (the former) Ebrington barracks and the Guildhall, with a film-strip of images, many depicting naval and military scenes, above and below. The detail below shows a gap in the walls of Derry, a poster encouraging people to “Join the Wrens [and free a man for the fleet]” (the Women’s Royal Naval Service; see the poster at IWM), soldiers playing ping-pong in their barracks, and the ship’s bell of the HMS Londonderry (which served as a training ship during the Falkland War (WP)).

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Have They Gone Away?

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03089 2015-10-04 Welcome To Loyalist Lower Shankill+

The South Belfast UDA this week issued a statement that they “won’t be leaving any stage whilst republicans of any faction still exist”. As the Newsletter article notes, the South Belfast branch of the UDA does not speak for the whole organization. Until confirmed, then, the new mural above – “Welcome to the loyalist Lower Shankill – UDA 2nd Batt. C. Coy” – provides only circumstantial evidence …

Elsewhere: Join the South East Antrim UDA: Glenfield Community Association.

Update (2015-10-16): Similar statement from “IRA commanders” BelfastLive | Irish Mirror

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Jay Adams Soul Sailor

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03031 2015-09-22 Psychonautes CNB15 Face+

Cork-based Frenchman Psychonautes (Fb) continues his series of skateboarding legends. Last year fro CNB14 he did Tony Alva in Garfield Street and in Exchange Place this year he painted Jay Adams, one of Alva’s fellow ‘Z Boys’ who died of a heart attack last year at age 53. (WP)

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In Search Of A Better Life

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03012 2015-09-17 Emigration Ship 2015 close+

Incidents involving ships of African emigrants seeking refuge in Europe are so many that there is a separate Wikipedia page for them. In response to the crisis, an old mural in Crocus Street (see M01486) remembering the emigration of Irish to North America during the Great Hunger was repainted and the lower part (which had images of the Great Hunger) replaced by stencilling which makes reference to the 2015 situation: “Ireland/Éıre 1845 – Europe/An Eoraıp 2015”, “Refugees welcome – Fáılte roımh theıfıgh”, and “No human is illegal – Níl aon dunıe [duıne] mídhleathach”. It was immediately vandalized with a “not” (see the final image, below; Fb) but has now been repaired, along with the mis-spelling.

Update 2015-10-19: the mural has been graffitied with “SF hate blacks” – see the fourth image, below.

03104 2015-10-07 Emigration Ship 2015 repaired+

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03142 2015-10-19 SF Hate Blacks+

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Taking The Hump

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03078 2015-10-03 Horses Copulating+

TLO‘s latest work: a green stallion mounts an orange mare.

Previously: Demonizing Paisley, Three Studies Of Ian Paisley, and Ian Jong-un, and also Wee Angel)

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Talk To The Hand

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02793 2015-08-20 Kincora+

The work above by TLO (featured previously in Demonizing Paisley, Three Studies Of Ian Paisley, Ian Jong-un, and Wee Angel) comments on the long-running inquiry (or inquiries) into abuse at the Kincora boys home. Despite the conviction of several workers as a result of a 1980 RUC inquiry, the matter continues to resurface, with involvement alleged against British lords and notables, MI5, and loyalist paramilitaries. In the latest development, an appeal by campaigners to have Kincora included in the UK-wide sexual abuse inquiry was rejected (BBC-NI). In the poster above, a bloody red hand takes the place of the head above Mountbatten’s regimental uniform.

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Always Remembered

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02773 2015-08-17 NorthDownUFF+

UFF/UDA/UYM (North Down, 2nd battalion, D company) memorial mural in Bloomfield estate, Bangor, to Andrew McIlvenny and Roy Officer, with hooded gunmen on a bed of poppies flanking the UFF clenched fist.

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Galaxy Paws

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03086 2015-10-03 Friz CNB15 Galaxy Paws+

Work by Friz (Fb) for CNB15: the fox is stretched out over a bed of roses and its body curves over the doorway. Its eyes are vents; its paws are galaxies. We live in one on the left hind leg.

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The Short-Timers

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03059 2015-09-23 ADW CNB15 Born To Create+

ADW‘s (Fb) CNB15 ‘combat helmet of crayons’ piece in Garfield Street has already been reclaimed by the Belfast graffitists (specifically NOTA), cheekily turning ‘born to create’ into ‘born 2 destroy’, rather like the ‘born to kill’ from the poster for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, on which the work was based (final image, below).

See previously: A Short Treatise On The Ephemerality Of Art in which a CNB13 piece was … modified.

03084 2015-10-03 Born To Destroy ADW+

03035 2015-09-23 CNB15 ADW+

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Street Art

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02884 2015-08-31 GlynnRoad2+

Above and below are summertime images of the Main Road in Glynn, just south of Larne, County Antrim, marked with the union jack and flags of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Orange symbols such as the crown, a key (for the Siege of Derry, rather than the crossed keys?), Jacob’s ladder, along with the six-pointed star.

02883 2015-08-31 GlynnRoad1+

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X02884 X02883 No surrender God save our queen Aughrim + Boyne + Enniskillen + Derry ulster