“1 in every 4 women will experience violence in their lifetime. Stop domestic, sexual & state violence.” On the rear of Free Derry Corner.
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Stop Domestic, Sexual & State Violence
The Walled City Marathon
“You are now entering the final stage of the walled city marathon 2013″. Free Derry Corner is partially covered with a tarp for the marathon.
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Free Stephen Murney
The advertising hoarding at the corner of Divis Street and Northumberland Street continues to provide incongruouscounterpoints to the material below it. Stephen Murney is an éirígí activist currently in prison on terrorism charges (BBC-NI). On the left are the outstretched arms of Jim Larkin, whose statue was featured two days ago.
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Éıre Nua
This is a recent poster (this one on the Antrim Road near Carlisle Circus) featuring the “Éıre Nua” plan of the 70s and 80s (which remains policy of Republican Sınn Féın, which split from Sınn Féın in 1986) and one of its authors, Ruaırí Ó Bradaıgh (WP). The plan calls for four parliaments, one in each of the four provinces, with a capital in Athlone. A documentary, Unfinished Business, featuring Ó Bradaıgh, can be seen here.
Update: Ó Bradaıgh died on June 5th, 2013 (Irish Times)
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We Only Want The Earth
Irish labour leader James (Jim) Larkin in Donegall Street Place (the entry below the John Hewitt) adorned with an G8 protest placard. Larkin organised strikes in Belfast in 1907 (WP). According to the antig8protest twitter feed, a festival is being put on in Belfast to rival the G8 meeting in Enniskillen (see previously: Putting On The Ritz | G8 Cover-Up).
The pose is based on the (unattributed) image shown last, below.
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A View From Life’s Other Side
This street art is on a wall/fence that runs right through the middle of Alexandra Park, separating the loyalist Mountcollyer and republican Newington neighbourhoods. The ‘History Comes Alive’ triptych is on the nationalist side.
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Rathcoole UFF
This UFF/UDA/UYM mural on Iniscairn Drive in the Rathcoole estate features a red fist (centre) and a red hand wrapped in barbed wire (apex), as well two masked figures aiming rifles.
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Thatcher Graffiti
This graffiti at the junction of Hawthorn Street/Sráıd na Sceıthe and Cavendish Road exulting in the death of Margaret Thatcher is just below a board memorialising the three IRA members killed in Gibraltar (one of whom, Dan McCann, lived in the street). (Previously: Ding Dong | Thatcherism | The Real Criminal | Rot In Hell | Rust In Peace)
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Vibrant
A no longer vibrant “vibrant” — one of the alternating panels of images and single words on the Eastway in the upper Bogside in Derry. Below are “Resilient”, “Community Pride” (modified to become “Community Ride”), “Revival”, and “Creativity”.
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Dream
The word “dream” in multiple languages around 40 images of children – 8 each in five panels on Oxford Street. This is the first/left-most one.
By Rita Duffy on Oxford Street, Belfast.
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