Flags Flying

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A view of the outside of the Orange Hall on Albertbridge Road (from three weeks ago), with flags and banners of the Queen and today’s Covenant celebrations. Here’s a piece from the Tele on Covenant celebrations in 1962, at the 50 year mark.

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X00617 ulster unionist party, east belfast advice centre, junior l.o.l. queen elizabeth diamond jubilee, 1952-2012 sponsored by royal arch purple district chapter no. 6, east belfast celebrates ulster covenant 100th anniversary, 28th september 1912-2012, sonia copeland, w.d.m., w.l.o.l. district no. 2

A Dead End

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Here’s a full-size version of a recent Republican mural at the north end of Springhill Ave. The tower beyond is the Springfield Rd. police station. The “August 2010 Agreement” is an agreement reached between prisoners and authorities about treatment in Roe House, an exclusively republican wing.

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X00631 implement the aug 2010 agreement h-block 1981 maghaberry 2012 end forced strip searches end controlled movement, stop the torture of irish political prisoners

Kiss And Make Up

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A  mural on the peace line at Cupar Way by Eoin O’Connor at artbyeoin.com. (On the other side of the fence we have Bombay St.)

Like the girl with the flaxen hair, it is written all over by every tourist who comes here in a black taxi or tourist bus.

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Ulster Girl

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This is another piece from the Crimea Street celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee. This panel with its old-style artwork (a reproduction of a postcard from during the Home Rule debate) is next to the much larger composite board to Queen Elizabeth (featured previously in For Those About To March).

“Ulster to England – Thou mayest find another daughter/With a fairer face than mine/With a gayer voice and sweeter/And a softer  eye than mine;/But thou canst not find another/That will love thee half so well!” The CAIN database indicates that this same girl and poem are also on Thorndyke St (photo at CAIN).

Not shown is a collection of flags on the low wall to the left – see M08637.

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Belfast Culture Night 2012

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Belfast has just (Friday 21st) had its fourth annual culture night and budding muralists were out in force. Here is random sample. Above is NOTA (none of the above)’s piece on shop shutters in North Street. Update 2013-02-28: A NOTA tag at Belfast Snapper.

Below is Praise, with a blue-and-white constructivist stencilling.

Praise’s piece is on the wall at the bottom of the wheel-chair ramp into (what was) the NI Tourist Board. Just around the corner, on North Street itself, we have this electrical box with white crosses with ‘Get Paid’ slogan, signed PB (??)

This crew didn’t have a name …

‘Visual waste’ was also there; here’s his tag stencil. We’ll have the finished products from Visual Waste and from Praise in a couple of days.

Here is video of various artists at work …

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For Those About To March

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Here are two details of a large board on the Shankill celebrating the Queen’s diamond jubilee. Still no firm rules for the main Covenant march this coming Saturday … (BBC | Slugger)

For the whole thing, see the Peter Moloney Collection.

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X00619 X00624 Belfast, Shankill Road the heart of the empire salutes her majesty on 60 glorious years, dirige deus gressus meos, may god guide my steps, je maintiendrai, to commemorate her majesty the queen’s diamond jubilee, elizabeth r, ERII, 1952 2012

Banquet

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Here is a close-up of the first three panels (out of 7.5) of Rita Duffy’s Banquet, (mentioned yesterday as having preceded the 2012 Covenant board in Argyle St.). It was originally produced for International Women’s Day 2011 and was launched on March 11th (Greater Shankill Partnership | Newsletter). There’s an excellent set of pictures, taken by the Shankill Women’s Center, of the boards being erected over a 2002 mural celebrating the Queen’s 50th anniversary, and a video by NVTv.

A wide shot and a close-up of the info board are below … This is a difficult piece to photograph in its new location (Cupar Way): it is long and there’s a tree on the pavement; it is also highly reflective. Unlike other pieces on Cupar Way, it has (so far) largely escaped the plague of locusts that is the signatures of tourists.

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X00646 X00644 X00642 Banquet by rita duffy, this mural is presented by the shankill women’s centre to celebrate the centenary of international women’s day 2011. it was funded by the arts council of northern ireland. the picture is the artist’s response to research carried out by local women into the women’s suffrage movement in belfast. the campaign to get the vote precipitated a change in the lives of women living in the shankill throughout the 20th century and beyond. banquet celebrates the ongoing process of that change. 1911 international women day 2011, swc, mary-ann mccraken helen crickard caroline mccorin linda walker

We Perish If We Yield

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Northern Ireland is anticipating the centenary of the 1912 Ulster Covenant (WP | Slugger) next weekend (September 29th). The board above marks the occasion, featuring, in the middle third, a reproduction of a famous photograph of Edward Carson making the first signature. The full text of the Covenant is included in a mural on Thorndyke St.

This board is on N Howard St, facing the ‘Lest We Forget’ mural (and in summer 2012, the Families Against Supergrass Trials banner) on Spier’s Place. There was a similar board, celebrating the covenant, across the street in the previous decade. This new board takes the place of Rita Duffy’s photography-based piece for International Women’s Day, which has moved to the Cupar Way “peace” line.

The plaque (below) was added after the main picture was taken (perhaps at the same time as a sequence of plaques – see Say It With Guinness): “This mural was dedicated by Alderman Hugh Smyth OBE on Friday the 21st September 2012 to commemorate the centenary of the signing of Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant”.

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X00622 X05200 100 years of solemn league and covenant, edward carson, saturday 28th september 1912, we will not have home rule, the lions of ulster, 2012

Changing The Stations

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Stations of the cross compete with satellite TV and a basketball hoop, Berwick Road, Ardoyne.

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Marian Price – Whiterock Rd

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Marian Price (WP) mural, Whiterock Rd. Launched May 13, 2012. Owen Paterson (with one “t”) was replaced last week as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after five months in office. Charges against Price were reinstated on September 5th (Slugger). See also Marian Price poster .

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X00629 free marian price is owen patterson’s political hostage, end internment