The Sandy Row Falcons (cheerleading) (Fb) take the place of King Billy in Linfield Avenue; the Siege Of Derry mural remains.
The Falcons are also included in Each One Teach One.
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A bricked-up tailor’s shop in Crossmaglen, County Armagh/Ard Mhacha – Sew What Alterations
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The notice-board outside Bar Berlin on the Shankill Road at Berlin Street announces spirits for 1.50 and happy-hour pints for 2.10.
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Three images of flags on two republican bonfires, built to commemorate the introduction of internment in 1971. According to news reports (e.g. BBC-NI), the ‘Celebrating Our Culture’ banner on this bonfire at the base of Divis tower had been stolen from Linfield Road in south Belfast (it hung to the left of the mural to the left in this image) but was subsequently removed from the bonfire (whether or not it was returned is not reported). The image above is from Thursday (Aug. 8th). (Last year’s bonfire also had stolen PUL banners: see M08775.)
The flag in the second image (an Ulster flag with a tricolour in the corner and the words ‘The Only Ulster’ on the bottom) was on the Divis bonfire during construction on Wednesday but removed by Thursday. The third image is of a bonfire in Beechmount (between Corpus Christi and St. Paul’s schools) flying the flags of various loyalist groups, as well as the Union flag and the Northern Ireland flag.
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Street art by Verz (ig) making reference to the fire in the North Street Arcade – see Who Burnt Us Out?.
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Above is the latest political slogan to appear on Black Mountain, over New Barnsley and Ballymurphy: PSNI-MI5 = Political Policing, referring to the presence of British Military Intelligence in Northern Ireland. The Springfield Road barracks is in the right foreground. A close-up and the view from the other side of the road can be found below.
The lettering went up on August 1st and was down no later than the 7th. A new sign is supposed to go up today (Aug 9th), in support of Leonard Peltier, according to the Gaelforce facebook page.
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Poster from the 1916 Societies (Fb), specifically the West Belfast Joe McKelvey Society, named after the anti-treaty IRA commander (WP). (There is also a society named after McKelvey in his home town of Stewartstown, Co Tyrone. (Fb)) The flag (shown below) is in the Republican Museum, Conway Mill.
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“No blacks, no Irish, no dogs, no POWs – sponsored by SDLP/TUV” (Traditional Unionist Voice). The reference of this board in Turf Lodge is a June motion in the NI Assembly to bar anyone convicted of a serious offence from serving as a ministerial adviser (the trigger case being Mary McArdle). Passage of the bill was secured when SDLP members supported the motion.
Report in the News Letter | Discussion at Slugger
For the other side of the ‘H’, see Turf Lodge Remembers.
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The eastern side of the H-Block ‘H’ at the top of Monagh Road as it was in May, 2013, with a board in memory of the Gibraltar three (Dan, Mairead, Sean ) and another volunteer killed a few days later (Kevin) (for background, see both 25 Years In Progress | Completed) and announcing an Easter Sunday rally commemorating the 1916 Rising.
For the other (western) side of the ‘H’, see No Dogs, No POWs.
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A flyer/poster in the window (of an unmarked unit, but presumably a community resource centre – next to Sam Glenn’s butchers) exhorting residents of the Shankill area to register to vote, part of the recent trend of sentiments expressing Protestant marginalization. (See previously: Carrickfergus panels one | two)
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