Here is another detail long piece on the side wall of Menagerie, of a girl perhaps listening intently to the music been pumped out by from the magical piano (featured previously in The Piano Has Been Smoking). If you know the artist, please leave a comment or send an e-mail. A wide shot of the whole is below.
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Above is another panel from the new Lodge multi-panel community mural done by Ed Reynolds on North Queen Street, based on vintage photographs of locals. In the lower right-hand corner are the words “Tilly & Margaret Moreland”.
Previously: The Old New Lodge.
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“How I love you all. I wonder what you are doing at home. I must not do that. It is hard enough sitting waiting. We may move at any minute. When this reaches you for me there will be no more war, only eternal peace and waiting for you.” – A letter home from the Somme. July 1st, 1916 saw the start of the Battle Of The Somme. The 36th (Ulster) division lost over 5,000 men in an initial successful attack near Thiepval Wood, but were driven back that evening. The board above is on the north side of the (second) Donegall Road railway bridge.
See also: The Charge From Thiepval Wood
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Community and anti-bullying board at the junction of Hallidays Road and the Limestone Road welcoming people to Tiger’s Bay. You can see two images of the boards in progress on the Dean Clarke Foundation’s Fb page. The foundation is also involved in the community garden which can be seen in a previous post on a H&W workers mural and which sits across from the b&w Belfast Blitz mural.
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Two shots of Keats & Chapman, booksellers, in North Street, and a second incarnation of ‘Read More’ by “Filth” (This Is Filth, Graham Watson). The original Read More was two units further down the street – that spot has been taken by JMK’s Venus (featured previously). A picture of the shop during trading hours (taken 2013-10) is below, with a little girl perhaps getting her first look into Keats & Chapman.
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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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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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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 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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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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