“You might easy know a doffer when she comes to town/With her long yellow hair and her pickers hanging down/With her rubber ties [tied] before her and her scraper in her hand. … [the verse concludes: She’ll never get a man]” (Traditional Music). Conway Mill closed in the mid-70s but from 1982 onward has been used for community development; since 2000 it has been a listed building (Conway Mill).
Conway Street, west Belfast
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“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”.
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This is all that remains of a multi-panel mural along an alley connecting the Falls Road with Ross Road (directly across from North Howard Street/Falls Leisure Center). The area is being redeveloped.
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The gate and peace line at the eastern end of Cupar Way. The boards are on the republican side, on North Howard Street, encouraging interaction between Catholics and Protestants: “There’s more in common … than what divides us.”
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X00751 there’s more in common than what divides us, divis youth project glencairn
éırígí stencil-on-boards on Northumberland St. & Divis St. in sharp contrast to the advertising hoardings above.
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An Irish-language board outside Ladbrokes on the Falls Road/Shiels Street: “Lig do chroí chun rásai” – let your heart go to the races/let your heart race.
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Glenard-Glenbryn “peace line”/”war wall” on Alliance Avenue, north Belfast.
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A depiction in Iveagh Drive of the old Broadway picture house (long gone) which was located on the main Falls road nearby.
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“IRA” daubed on exterior of the Springfield Road barracks. (See also: Martin Corey board.)
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