Freedom In Arabic

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2014-08-03 McQuillanResistance+

“Oppression breeds resistance”, in the form of Leila Khaled and an IRA gunman, and a clenched fist in the colours of the Palestinian flag. This is a new pro-Gaza mural in McQuillan Street with Irish “Tıocfaıdh ár lá” [our day will come] and Arabic “يومنا قادم” [our day is coming] (and in the shields “Saoırse” and “حرية”[freedom]).

The artist is DD Walker (“Rebel Rebel”), who painted the “Against Established Law” Che Guevara mural last (2013) October which this replaces.

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Free Gaza

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2014-07-19 FreeGaza+

Another pro-Palestinian piece, sponsored by éırígí, just round the corner from Where Is The World? Israeli ground operations in Gaza yesterday (July 22) entered their third week.

Previously in this location: Stop Sign | Free Stephen Murney

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Menagerie

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2014-05-29 MenagerieFront+

Out-of-this-world work by Scottish artist (Mark) Lyken (Twitter | Fb) – signature at the top, in the middle – on the front of Menagerie (Tumblr) on University Street. Wide shot below.

Previously from Menagerie: The Piano Has Been Smoking | Eyes Wide Shut

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Stoneyford

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2014-06-24 StonyfordFlag+

An Ulster Banner tops an electrical pole in Stoneyford sporting a picture of an Orange Order collarette and the red hand in barbed wire of the Loyalist Prisoners Association.

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Where Is The World?

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2014-07-19 GazaUt+

Gazans flee ahead of smiling soldiers from homes set ablaze by a tank flying the Israeli flag. This new mural on the international wall associates the current Israeli invasion of Gaza (Operation Protective Edge) with the US/South Vietnamese attack on the village of Trang Bang during the Vietnam war by modelling itself on Nick Út’s 1972 Pulitzer prize-winning photograph for the Associated Press of villagers fleeing a napalm bombing (WP). [Authorship is disputed – it might be by Nguyễn Thành Nghệ – see World Press Photo.]

On the ground in front of the mural are tealights that were lit in memorial and solidarity.

Previously: Hands Across The Yard

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Reid & Wright

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This fake shopfront on the main Antrim Road through Glengormley pretends to be a bookstore but was once the Thyme Cafe. It’s not clear where the “restaurant” signage comes from.

Previously: Down The Shops | Back To Business | Needful Things | Yes, We Are Closed | Semiotics | G-8 Cover-Up

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St. Patrick’s

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2014-06-11 NthQueenStSpire+

St. Patrick’s on Donegall Street serves as the local Catholic church for the New Lodge. Its spire rises above the houses in a detail from the community mural at the bottom of the New Lodge, painted by Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded.com), based on vintage photographs of the area and its residents.

Previously: The Old New Lodge | On My Wedding Day

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The Beautiful Blues

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2014-05-06 SouthLinfield+

Two boards on the Donegall Road feature Linfield football club. The one above (at the bridge near Roden Street) features the 1957-1958 team; the one below (near the City Hospital station) has the founding team of 1886 and champions in 1890-1891 in the background (shown in Fortune Favours The Brave) “with Sandy Row former Linfield players Daryl Fordyce and Albert Watson, with the modern day youth of Sandy Row” (linfieldfc.com).

2014-05-27 SandyRowSpirit+

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The Cat That Got The Cream

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2014-06-13 TivoliTiger+

In Belfast city centre in the early morning, it’s generally safe for the milkman to leave the milk on the pavement outside business premises, but perhaps not when there’s a well-camouflaged tiger on the prowl  – red and white striped to match the pole of the Tivoli barber shop.

Work by friz in North Street; replaces KinMX’s blue-haired nude.

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If Stones Could Speak

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2014-06-23 StColumbsStone+

“If stones could speake then London’s prayse should sounde who built this church and cittie from the grounde.” Above is the dedication stone for St. Columb’s Anglican church in Derry and within that is a smaller stone “said to have come from Derry’s mediaeval cathedral” (colmcille.org) which reads “In templo verus deus est vereq[ue] colendus” – In the temple is the true God and truly deserving to be worshipped.

“Ano do 1633” [Anno Domini – In the year of our Lord, 1633], “Car Regis” 9 [Caroli regis – in the ninth year of the reign of King Charles], Vaughan Aed [Vaughan aedificavit – built by Sir John Vaughan, Governor of the City of Londonderry; the builder was in fact William Parrott. Construction began in 1628 and was completed in 1633, at a cost of 4,000 pounds.]

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