Here is a detail from a fairly long mural depicting children’s street games and Mickey Marley’s Roundabout (pulled by his horse Joey) on a wall and security gate that are part of the Townsend Street “peace” line. (For another pole swing, see Stroud Street.) Mickey Marley was so well-known that a song was written for him, which you can hear on youtube.
Townsend Street Presbyterian church can be seen in the background and in the mural. For the part on the gate, see Through The Wardrobe.
“Housing right – human rights. 5,000 sleeping rough on our streets, 100,000 families on waiting lists, 350,000 empty properties. There are no excuses!” IRSP poster in CNR Belfast, with two stickers on the lamp-post: “An Bhreataın amach as Éırınn – Saoırse Anoıs!” and “Free Marian Price”.
A new board commemorating Pat Finucane (WP), on Beechmount Avenue. A British report into his death was published yesterday, 2012-12-12 (Tele | BBC-NI | Slugger).
A Union Flag flies together with an Israeli flag on O’Neill Road over the Rathcoole estate (which saw some rioting last week over the removal of the Union Flag from Belfast city hall) and a Red Hand Commando mural.
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.
Seosamh Mac Coille Collection 