The career – both domestic (Manchester United) and international (Northern Ireland) – of soccer icon George Best is on display in this Sandy Row mural.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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“In glorious memory” of King William III of Orange, crossing the Boyne to defeat King James II and secure Ireland for England.
North Street, Ballymena
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“Whoever we are, wherever we live, these rights belong to all children under the sun and the moon and the stars, whether we live in cities or towns or villages or in the mountains or valleys or deserts or forests or jungles. Anywhere and everywhere in the big wide world these are the rights of every child.” No war, poverty, or spoils. Signposts mark the way to Ofer Prison Camp in the West Bank and Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Islandbawn Street, middle Falls, west Belfast
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Here are four pieces of street art by Pablo Caamina, Filth (web), and Dr Lakra x2 (ekosystem): a ratty cat, ?a cloud?, a skeleton kneeling in its own discarded flesh, and a sweating head. The yellow on the far end is part of a piece by Blu – brains falling out of an open head (ekosystem).
The building is now (part of) the site for the MAC, between Hector Street and Edward Street, Belfast; the building on the right is in Exchange Street.
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“All Taigs keep out” – sectarian graffiti on Clough Castle.
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Ulster typically says “no” (going back to 1985, at least) but this Ballysillan Road graffitist is not so sure.
Ballysillan Road, north Belfast
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These two pieces of anti-PSNI graffiti are in Glenvale Street, PUL west Belfast: “PSNI no-go zone – enter at your own risk” and “Providing Support [for] Nationalist Interests”.
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This is an in-progress set of images of the original “Wheatfield Project” panels on the Ballysillan Road, depicting the 20th century in loyalism. The crown on the YCV symbol and the tombstones and Ulster tower have not been finished and Carson’s statue will be added to the foreground of Stormont.
Later on, an info board would replace the first two panels, and the order after it would be Ulster Day, then Carson signing the covenant, then a new double-sized panel of Fernhill House, and then the rest as above, but with the order of the Sunningdale and UWC strike panels reversed.
Ballysillan Road, north Belfast
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This is the scene on the Shore Road (north Belfast) at Gray’s Lane. From left to right, “[Tony] Blair/Haine [Peter Hain, NI Secretary] – 2 S/F Toadies”; “And so the sham goes on”; “Johnny Adair – South East Antrim UFF – No Surrender”; and below, the remains of the Tudor Lodge (still present in 2017).
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This is a photograph of the outer fences of “you know where” – Long Kesh/the H Blocks/Her Majesty’s Prison Maze.
Whatever you say, say nothing
When you talk about you-know-what.
For if you-know-who could hear you
You know what you’d get –
They’d take you off to you-know-where
– Colum Sands “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing”
Colum Sands’s song (1981) is pre-dated by Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem of the same name, from the collection North.
“This morning from a dewy motorway
I saw the new camp for the internees …”
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