Whiskey

2013-03-26 DukeOfYorkWhiskey+

Whiskey, the middle of five panels (see below) in another piece from the Duke Of York pub in the city centre portraying four Northern Irish industries of/in the past – rope, ships, whiskey – the words to the song William Bloat – and tobacco products.

The piece is by local artist Ciaran Gallagher, who has put a URL to his website in the bottom right. It is between the McBride’s board and the Fritz Lang/Big Brother piece.

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Fáılte Feırste Thıar

A bilingual board encouraging tourism in CNR west Belfast. The attractions listed are múrphıctúrí [sic], títhe [sic] phobaıl agus reılıgí, ceol agus damhsa, ıarsmalaınn poblachtach, nádúr, ealaín agus cultúr, gaırdíní chuımhneacháın, spóırt Gaelach, ár staır le blıanta beaga [murals, churches and cemeteries, music and dance, republican museums, nature, arts and culture, memorial gardens, Gaelic games, recent history].

By Rısteard Ó Murchú in Nansen Street/Sráıd Nansen, Belfast/Béal Feırste.

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BVM Supports POWs

2013-03-14 GrottoPOWs+

With God on our side … The BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary) standing shoulder to shoulder, or at least corner to corner, with republican POWs in the New Lodge.

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Easter Re-Union

“Ardoyne, Bone & Ligoniel Easter Re-Union, on Tuesday 2nd April, Crumlin Star social club, 8 til late, with prominent guest speaker, traditional Irish night, followed by disco. Taıle [entrance fee] £5.00”.

In CNR north Belfast.

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Those Who Can Endure The Most

A tarp has been added to the Ardoyne memorial garden (seen previously in 2008) putting the 12 deceased hunger strikers from the modern Troubles alongside those who were executed for their part in the Easter Rising.

Berwick Road, Ardoyne, Belfast

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Red Fist

2013-03-29 BangorUFF+

An Ulster Freedom Fighters mural in Bangor, to the northeast of Belfast. The mural is at the edge of a Loyalist estate which is on high ground; it (and its companion) overlook and dominate a major junction on a network of roads around the town.

Some previous non-palm (and non-UDA) red hands: Proud, Defiant, Welcoming | I Would Give My Right Hand

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The Culture Wars

2013-02-13 IRAUnionAsterisk+

“IRA” daubed on a wall in The Fountain, Londonderry, painted over with an impromptu and almost colourless Union jack that also looks like an asterisk.

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Lest We Forget

2013-02-27 EmersonSt+

A mural in Emerson Street, Londonderry, featuring UFF/UDA volunteer Cecil McKnight and additionally naming Lindsay Mooney, Ray Smallwoods, Gary Lynch, Ben Redfern, and William Campbell. McKnight is shown standing in front of a mural in the adjacent Bond’s place circa 1990 (facing the Trooper mural). The Londonderry crest (left of centre, over McKnight’s right shoulder,) is featured in the mural in Vita, Veritas, Victoria.

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Proud, Defiant, Welcoming

2013-03-19 WelcomeShankill+

“Welcome To The Shankill Road. We are Proud, Defiant, Welcoming” with images of Belfast in the blitz, the Orange Order and bonfires on July 12th, boxing and soccer, and contemporary murals in the local area. The mural is above the security gates on Northumberland Street.

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John Hume & Friends

2013-03-09 HumeAndFriends+

“A Tribute to John Hume” by the Bogside Artists. Nobel peace prize-winners John Hume (1988), Martin Luther King, Jr (1964), Nelson Mandela (1993), (the Derry bridge,) and Mother Teresa (1979).

Hume was awarded the prize jointly with David Trimble, and Mandela with F. W. de Clerk. The 94 year-old Mandela is currently (April 2013) in hospital with pneumonia.

Rossville Street and the rear of Glenfada Park, Bogside, Derry/Doıre.

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