A detail from a board in Tower Street (off the Lower Newtownards Road) featuring a young girl carrying a union flag – a famous photograph from VE Day, 1945. For the whole mural, see M04869.
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Loyalist boards showing a (UVF) hooded gunman and a tiger from the “Mount Vernon Volunteers” wearing a purple beret, on Ross House, the Mount Vernon tower block. On the upper floors are an Ulster Banner and Union Flags.
See also: Families Against Supergrass Trials.
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Fiddler Art Lundy is depicted in the mural on the side of Madden’s bar in Berry St, just below Castle Court. Note the ‘decommissioned’ ashtray!
The original photograph of Lundy is by Frankie Quinn (web).
Front door and mural detail below.
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A pensioner on the way to St. Matthew’s in Bryson Street on the morning of Sunday, December 23rd, 2012.
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A Union Flag in the window of a house on the Lower Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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A mural in Shiels Street/Sráıd Uí Shıaıl on the side of the offices of the Suicide Awareness and Support Group (Facebook) – “Reaching out is a strength not a weakness”. The plaque to the right notes that the original (1891) home pitch of Belfast Celtic was near this spot. It was known as “Boghead”; in 1901 they moved to Celtic Park, known as “Paradise”. ( WP | belfastceltic.org)
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A board at the top of Castlereagh Street listing residents of the street who worked in 1911 on the Titanic and Olympic. With plane-breaking lifeboats and sponsorship from Belfast City Council (see Daniela Balmaverde’s page on the project), the Department for Social Development and the Titanic Foundation.
Wide show below ….
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X00763 X00764 X05206 boiler maker plater iron turner shipyard marine engineer draughtsman smith fitter helper, carpenter apprentice joiner moulder chief harbour board clear storekeeper’s office, ropemaker, labourer, leighton cunningham, william horsly, william nelson, francis gregson, james taylor, robert keenan, john miller, joseph atkinson, john porter, william boyd, thomas finney, joseph walker, joseph simpson, sidney ham, archibald hutchinson, andrew mulgrew, james brown, robert dobson, robert simpson, john mccurley, william roy, charles cameron, john m. murray, john lapidge, william horsly (again?), thomas maitland, thomas valentine, alexander mccallum, thomas henderson, george moody, ?jack? kennedy, william wise, edward thomson, william henry ?adison?, bartholemew ivory, john campbell, james miller
A banner announcing the Rising Sons Flute Band outside their practice hall in east Belfast. (Previously: Rising Sons mural)
One of many Rising Sons youtube videos:
The banner makes an appearance in this CNN video on the rioting …
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The right-most part of the Townsend St. Mickey Marley mural is painted on the security gate. The girl swinging on the rope seems to have inadvertently intruded from another world.
Wider shot below …
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This is one of the most famous murals in Belfast on account of its position overlooking the entrance of Mount Vernon and the M2 – the central gunman appears to be aiming right at you as you come down the off-ramp to the Shore Road. The original mural (T00138 | D00382) – which dates back to the ceasefire (1995) – was on a gable at the front of the estate but the entire block of houses was knocked down (c. 2000 – BelTel). It was later recreated (though without the words “3rd battalion” above “North Belfast) in the current more elevated position.
The other gunman-aiming-right-at-you mural is the UDU mural in the lower Shankill estate.
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