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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X03030 X03084 X03059 assault deadly weapon born to create combat helmet crayon pencil colour coloured NOTA none of the above

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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

To The Max

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02966 2015-09-01 Donegal Celtic FC Maxi+

Paul “Maxi” McVeigh scored over 200 goals during his career at Donegal Celtic – “The Wee Hoops” – the team he played his entire career with before retiring at the end of the 2012-2013 season. (Sunday World) The club grounds, and the mural shown above and below, are at the top of the Suffolk Road in west Belfast.

02888 2015-09-01 Donegal Celtic FC+

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X02966 X02888 est. 1970 donegal celtic FC football and sports club green and white hoops football soccer pride of west belfast

Coral Hearts

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03054 2015-09-23 OneLoveLouis CNB15 Coral Hearts+

Coral hearts by One Love Louis (Louis Masai) (Fb | Tw) next to the work of Irony featured yesterday That Faraway Look. See the wide shot below for both.

03055 2015-09-23 Coral Hearts Earring w+

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That Faraway Look

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03056 2015-09-23 Irony CNB15 Earring+

Realistic image of a female face in profile by Irony (Fb | Tumblr) for CNB15 just off Berry Street towards the Royal Avenue end. You can see the image he was working from at deviantart. The earring is borrowed from the piece next door, which we’ll feature tomorrow.

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Three-In-One

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02792 2015-08-20 HolywoodUDAUFFUYM+

This trio of Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Freedom Fighters, and Ulster Young Militants boards are in Holywood, County Down. The overtly paramilitary UFF acts as the link between the others, in that the UDA and UYM emblems appear in miniature alongside its own. The UFF slogan “Ferriens tego” is missing from its board. The local troop is the North Down 2nd Batt. D Coy.

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Many Suffer

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02823 2015-08-24 MandelaSands+

“Many suffer so that someday future generations may live in justice and peace.”

Portraits of Nelson Mandela and Bobby Sands are presented side by side, both smiling, in front of the flags of (post-apartheid) South Africa and the Republic of Ireland.

Bogside, Derry.

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