Fallen Comrades

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INLA volunteers Paul McCann, Matt McLarnon, Danny Loughran, and Gino Gallagher are commemorated in a new board unveiled today (2014-06-29) on Northumberland Street. The work shows the four in uniform against a backdrop of Divis flats, St. Peters, and the plough in the stars. Information about the deaths of each of the four can be found via this IRSP page. The IRSP/Teach na Fáilte sponsored the piece, which is by Fra Maher and covers over the centre part of the yellow IRSP mural. Maher also did the anti-fascist/Spanish civil war mural  at the left edge of the image above.

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Through The Mists Of Time

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The hoarding at the building-site on Gresham Street has been painted to represent the shop that used to be on the opposite side of the street. 

Bigg Life Arts September 7-8, 2013, emic (Twitter), as part of the Smithfield & Library Arts Festival

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Belfast’s Infamous Prison

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Her Majesty’s Prison Belfast, better known as The Crumlin Road Gaol, was visited by the Queen on Tuesday (2014-06-24), probably not at the beckoning of this advertisement on the corner of Divis and Northumberland streets, next to the mural of Kieran Nugent and Brendan Hughes. One of the former residents of the jail, Martin McGuiness, showed the Queen around (which not everyone was happy with – The Guardian).

The jail opened in 1846 (under Queen Victoria, during the Hunger), closed in 1996, was transferred to OFM/dFM in 2003, and opened to the public in 2007 (DSI). Other notable prisoners include seven militant suffragettes (among them Dorothy Evans and Madge Muir, arrested for possession of explosives BBC – includes 6 min. audio | Belfast Suffragettes | WRDA), Eamon De Valera, Bobby Sands, Ian Paisley, and Michael Stone (WP), as well as Tom Mitchell and Phil Clarke, elected to Westminster in 1955 for Sinn Féin while still in prison (An Phoblacht).

Audio tour of the prison from CultureNI | Video footage of the Queen’s visit from The Telegraph.

The (unattributed) photo on which the Kieran Nugent mural is based in included below. See also this BBC video.

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The Piano Has Been Smoking

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The bird on the hat on the head of the man playing the piano with the dials and the tubes and the bulbs tweets love. Detail from one of the murals in the car-park/courtyard of Menagerie (Web | Fb), on University Street. Painted by Elph (Fb) in May 2012.

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The Look Of Love

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As he mentions in the video below, JMK (Jonny McKerr – Fb) has long been painting classical sculpture. This Venus/Aphrodite (or perhaps Diana/ Artemis?) – sporting a modern attitude – takes its place in the gallery that is North Street, replacing (the first) Read More.

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Hope – Future – Change – Now

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“Youth has no age – Pablo Picasso”. Above is one of the panels on Donegall Road, just above the City Hospital railway stop, celebrating the Sandy Row community.

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More British Troops

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“There are more British troops in Ireland than in Iraq.” Éırígí (web) stencil in Slemish Way, Belfast.

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Ag Tacú Le Seachtaın Na Gaeılge

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Sınn Féın – ag tacú le seachtaın na Gaeılge – Rıth 2014 [Sınn Féın – supporting Irish-language week – Race 2014]”. Youtube video of the launch.

Board at Connolly House on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast.

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Locked In The Attic

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Here are close-ups of two of KVLR’s (Kevin Largey – Twitter) new faces in the first-floor windows in Garfield Street. The wide shot below shows all seven windows, and the Take The Red Pill piece featured a few days ago.

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Those Days Are Gone

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“To put bread on the table, those days are gone, when we all had to to Willie Allen’s pawn.

We met and we married along time ago; we worked for long hours when wages were low.”

Above and below are boards 3 and 4 of the ‘Sandy Row memories’ at the end of Blythe Street, showing Murray’s Tobacco Factory (in Linfield Road/Sandy Row, which closed in 2005 before being refurbished and opening in 2012 as Murray’s Exchange) and the old Belfast & Ulster Brewing building (unchanged image here), home to the south Belfast Ulster Volunteers (Sandy Row History) and most recently (until 2007) the home of Gilpin’s Furniture.

Previously (and for more information): Parts 1 and 2 Mr. Saturday Night

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