Lifeline (web) is response helpline at 0808 808 8000 for anyone in crisis. The mural is by UV Arts (Fb). There is a companion piece: Is Your Head Pure Fried (visible at Belfast Beyond).
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04338 sackville st
Saoradh (“liberation” web) sticker on a traffic sign in Linsfort Drive, Creggan, Derry: “Stormont must go – end British rule.”
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04342
“We salute those who gave their lives for Irish freedom”, including James Connolly and Padraig Pearse in the 1916 Easter Rising, planned by Pearse (and others in the military committee of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). The IRA would be formed in 1919. The mural in the wide shot was featured in Mothers & Sisters.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04266 X04267
Martin Luther King is used to support the end of “complicity” in the practice of internment: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” The quote comes from King’s Steeler lecture entitled “The Trumpet of Conscience” (which was also used as the title of a 1968 collection of lectures). The Marwan Barghouti board (in Belfast) was featured previously. Both boards are from the IRPWA (Fb | web).
William St, Derry
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04337
Gerard Gibson, aged 16, was shot dead by members of the Royal Green Jackets (“murdered by British crown forces”) in Lenadoon on 11 July 1972. His case was examined by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) but the family rejected the findings (BBC). This board show today is in a similar style, and close to, that of Fıan Sean Ó Rıordan, but Gibson is not identified as a youth member of the OIRA (as Sutton identifies him).
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04336 beechmount ave erected by the gibson family four green fields that was my grief
This is a piece by Real1 (Gary Rowe – web | fb | inst | video interview) outside ArtCetera Studio (fb) (formerly the Red Barn Gallery).
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04334
A new mural to William “Buster” Keenan was unveiled this month – July 8th – coincidentally the anniversary of wife Eileen’s death. Both are listed on the UVF memorial stone (image 3) in front of the mural, along with David Ervine and the Long-Cordner-Bennett-Seymour quartet.
According to ACT, Keenan was involved in the Battle Of St. Matthew’s (in which Bobby Neill and James McCurrie were killed, along with Henry McIlhone). To the left (fourth image) is another “Ulster Volunteers” stone, a “Sydenham roll of honour – to those who gave their lives in the Great War”.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle X04331 X04330 X04332 X04333 [X10340]
Copyright © 2022 Seosamh Mac Coılle X10337 X10338 X10339
inverary dr ycv east belfast battalion fusiliers rifles canadian inniskilling rifleman royal navy highlanders
Belfast’s Ryan Burnett is IBF bantamweight world champion. What was initially given as a split decision was later corrected to unanimous due to a judge mixing up the boxers on his card (Telegraph). The mural above, by Glen Molloy, is on Cassidy’s on the Antrim Road, near Bearnageeha where Burnett (and Paddy Barnes) went to school.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04327
Armagh were All-Ireland Senior Football champions in 2002, beating Kerry by 1-12 to 14 points – their first and (so far) only All-Ireland.
For the Ryan Burnett board to the right in the wide shot, see Undisputed Champion.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04329 X04328 Antrim Rd
The 1917 board in the Poppy Trail series (1914 | 1915 | 1916) celebrates female munitions workers as well as making local connections to the battles of 1917: George Cairns of Roden Street and Thomas Fitzpatrick of Cullingtree Road.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2017 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X04321 X04320 euterpe st
Seosamh Mac Coille Collection 