Mac Dıarmada

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2013-07-24 MacDiarmada+

This board to Seán Mac Dıarmada in Ardoyne details his exploits leading up to and including the 1916 uprising and his earlier connection with the local area.

Below, a wide shot showing the end of Butler Walk and the Holy Cross church in the background. Painted by Rısteard ÓMurchú.

Previously: Mac Dıarmada also appears in the Bone Staır Na Gaeılge mural. Also: Damn Your Concessions, England in the New Lodge

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Féıle 25

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2013-07-24 Feile+

A billboard for this year’s Féıle, which begins on August 1st and, in addition to the various musical acts shown here, includes an exhibition in the Conway Mill on the murals of Belfast and Los Angeles. This hoarding is at the junction of Kinnaird Street and the Antrim Road.

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X01194 irelands’ biggest community arts festival and summer school 1-11 august 2013 http://www.feilebelfast.com

Prison First, Then President

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2013-07-23 Mandela+

“”In my country we go to prison first and then become President” – Madiba, Nelson Mandela, freedom lover, friend of Ireland.”

Above is a new mural on Northumberland Street (not on Divis Street’s international wall) in honour of the ailing Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, on July 18th. Painted by Lucas Quigley (you can see a signature and a telephone number in the lower right), the mural features Mandela, the flags of Ireland and South Africa, and the Sinn Féin logo (in contrast with the dissident flyers further up to the left, shown on 2013-07-17). Detail below. The photo reproduced is probably this Getty image.

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Daffodil Days

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Shamrock, thistle, and rose are shown in this South East Antrim Ulster Defence Union mural but the daffodil is not, even though the Welsh “Red Dragon” is included alongside the Scottish Saltire, the flag of Northern Ireland, and Queen Elizabeth II’s royal standard.

The Ulster Defence Union was a loyalist organization founded to fight against Home Rule, launched on 17 March 1893. The name is now used by the post-ceasefire UDA (beginning in 2007: Newsletter | Remembrance Day Statement at CAIN).

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1 Ireland, 1 Vote

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2013-07-23 1Ireland1Vote+

Republican flyers on Northumberland Street, next to the ‘famous faces’/30th anniversary of the hunger strike mural (and to the right of that, a new Nelson Mandela mural which we’ll feature in a few days).

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The Red Army

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The Red Army are the supporters of Cliftonville football team which this past (2012-2013) season won both the Irish League Cup and the League Championship. The mural on the right had side, detailed below, looks in such good condition because it was touched up on July 17th —in time for that night’s Champions League match against Celtic — after being vandalized on the 16th.

There is a good summary of Cliftonville history (including their present-day successes), as well as a picture of the “Let’s All Do The Huddle” mural painted for the occasion of the Celtic visit, at the blog Four-Four-Two.

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The Sun Will Make You Blind

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2013-07-08 TheSun+

Members of local graffit artist crew TMN (whose names are listed in the lower left) have collaborated on this new anti-capitalist mural in College Court in the city centre, attacking The Sun (newspaper) and the recently deceased former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who is shown here with glowing eyes: “The Sun will make you blind life people say … cost you your sight as well as 30p a day.”

In progress image.

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Ravenhill Business Registry

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2013-06-28 RavenhillPole+

Various local industries of the past are named at the corner of My Lady’s Road and Ravenhill Road in east Belfast: Downshire Pottery [1787-1806], Ravenhill Iron Works [fl. 1910], Ridell And Sons [a grocer/trader in the 1800’s?], Tenants Textiles [probably the still-existing Tennants Textiles], Cromac Distillery [1776-1930], Belfast Vitriol Works [fl. 1852], Sydney Pentland [motor repair 1956-2005?]. An old (wooden) lamp-post in the foreground is painted in red-white-and-blue.

Other businesses, not pictured, include Lagan Engine Works, Charles Hurst, Spence Bryson Factory, Co-Op Bakery And Diary [Dairy], Jam Factory, Inglis, Hugh J. Scott, Devonshire Laundry, Royal Bakery.

The piece was installed in 2012-07 (Daniela Balmaverde).

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Cat & Mouse

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2013-06-30 CatMouse+

A cunning mouse is about to drop an anvil on an unsuspecting cat from the top of the electrical box at the south (city hall) end of Fountain Street in Belfast city centre. Red Ant looks on.

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Sammy McLarnon

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“This memorable [sic] plague [sic] is dedicated to the 1st victim of the present troubles, Sammy McLarnon, RIP, who was brutally murdered in his own home at 37 Herbert St by the RUC on 15th Aug., 1969.” For more, see this Irish Times article about a 1999 community inquest.

On the wider wall is the graffito “Cara don’t represent me”.

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