A tale of two east Belfasts: above is the playground at Pitt Park (next to the Ballymac Youth Centre’s SafeZone); below is Dee Street at its junction with Medway and Severn Streets and next to the Connswater Women’s Group (see The Verticality Of The Divine): “Quis Separabit • Simply the best • UFF • UDA”.
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Graffiti on the wall outside the Royal Victoria Hospital equates the SDLP with the NCA (below) and renames the it the “Security Directed Labour Party” (above). The National Crime Agency, launched in October 2013 as a “UK FBI” is limited in Northern Ireland to border and customs functions (WP). The dispute between the political parties concerns oversight of the NCA. In England and Wales it is overseen by parliament and there is no local oversight, which worries nationalists. After many months of negotiation, the SDLP in February supported a motion to consent to full introduction of the NCA; Republicans objected on the grounds that the body might become an arm of MI5 (BelTel).
Previously in the same location: Check
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Spray painting is an approved type of youth activity in this Glenfield/Castlemara community mural on a low wall on Oakfield Drive. You can see the ‘coat of arms’ (from the wide shot, below) of the Glenfield Community Association more clearly via their Facebook page.
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The Andy Tyrie Interpretive Centre on the Newtownards Road was opened on August 31st, 2012 (FB) and includes UDA/UFF memorabilia from troubles, including the 1974 Ulster Workers’ Council Strike in which the centre’s namesake, then head of the UDA, played a large role (WP).
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Charlie Hedbo, the satirical Parisian weekly which became internationally known after a gun attack in January in which 12 were killed, is named after Charlie Brown (from Charles Schultz’s Peanuts) but the Charlie Chaplin above (as seen in The Kid) uses French to try to claim the name for himself. Chaplin and his family settled in French-speaking Switzerland after he was denied entry to the US as part of Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt of artists with alleged communist sympathies (WP). Stencil by Patrick Devlin in the city centre. See previously: Blowing My Mind | Mr. Lee | The Passion
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As wrangling over the Welfare Reform Bill continues (with the extra layer of difficulty that comes with politics in these parts), Gael Force Art (Fb) have unveiled their latest message on the mountain (Sliabh Dubh), in support of a strike on the 13th by public sector workers (BBC-NI): End Brit/S’mont Cuts.
See previously: No War But The Class War
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“In loving memory: Andrew “BA” Haddock. You still live on in the hearts and minds of the family and friends you left behind. Missed by all your family and friends in Ballysillan.” The board above to a local lad who died young sits next to rock-wall seating and a sculpture on Tyndale Drive in Ballysillan.
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“This mural was created by Youth Action, occupied Ireland’s Ligoniel Young Men with the help of Blaze FX Art Design.” Previously it read “Northern Ireland”. The mural includes one youth gazing down into the city, the bus coming up to Ligonield, two spray-paint artists painting the mural and (just off to the left) two boys fishing.
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Here is the full width of the “upstairs” of Ciaran Gallgher’s Belfast Exposed, and with it the full expanse of the Klondyke Bar mural above it (featured previously in Nixon Resigns, Best Quits). For close shots of the ‘upstairs’, see Fifty Shades Of Belfast | Teenage Dreams.
To get some sense of the scale of these works, you should (get yourself a large monitor and) …
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“Smash Stormont. Oppose Tory cuts.” INLA/IRSP stencil on Northumberland Street, calling for people to support a ‘day of action’ tomorrow (2015-03-13). Replaces These Colors Don’t Run.
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