Fifteen years after painting, the Rockmount Street mural of Connolly and Liberty Hall is showing its age. Previously recorded in 2006.
Below Women In Struggle in Rockmount Street, west Belfast
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“Generations shall remember them and call them blessed.” This is a 2009 repaint of a 2002 mural. It continues to feature Máıre Drumm, Maıréad Farrell and (in the centre) Countess Markievicz outside the GPO, but “Sınn Féın” has disappeared from behind Drumm and there is now only one binlid banger.
The mural is above the Sınn Féın Trade Union Department mural.
Rockmount Street, west Belfast
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This is an end-of-life shot of the mural at the pedestrian entrance to the New Lodge. In the front is a landscape scene with “Welcome” in different languages; in the rear are street art figures and signatures; but graffiti covers all.
(Update: It was replaced in 2014 – both front and rear – by ‘old New Lodge’ images.)
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The William Drennan mural in the New Lodge is still hanging on, fourteen years after it was painted. See M01349.
Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast
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This is a companion piece to New Lodge 1900s. Life is now lived in colour, but suffers from underemployment, alcoholism, and suicide. The German bomber has been replaced by a British Army helicopter.
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The trials of life in the 1900s are depicted in this New Lodge mural. People work and die in the mills. The Germans drop bombs. Children go barefoot. The black-and-white colouring adds to the depression. The ‘New Lodge 2000‘ mural further down the road is in full colour, though life is still beset with problems.
For the mural on the low wall, see The Right To Be Happy (with republican slogan) and Young People’s Rights.
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The éırígí sticker refers to the Corrib gas controversy, which has been raging since 2001. (See murals about the Rossport 5 in 2005: Belfast M02549 | Derry M02640 | M02643.) For background, see Workers Solidarity Movement and WP.
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The Éırígí spot in the former RUC barracks is changed from Vote Éırígí to support for Palestinian prisoners of war.
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“Uachtarán na ndaoıne.” Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness was nominated by the party to stand for President Of Ireland. He garnered 13.7% of first preference votes and finished third to winner Michael D. Higgins (WP). For the hunger strikers metalwork, see M03118.
At the former Andytown RUC barracks.
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