Republican graffiti next to the “Young People’s Rights” mural in Duncairn Parade, New Lodge, north Belfast (for the whole of which see M02735 and X02423).
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Copyright © 2010 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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Say No 2 Drug Dealers
“Say no to drug dealers. Drug dealers don’t care where the money comes from. Do you?”
Berwick Road, Ardoyne, north Belfast
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Copyright © 2010 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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Join SFY
This is all that remains of a “Join SFY [Sınn Féın Youth]” (top) and “Vote SF” (bottom) wall in Berwick Road, Ardoyne.
For the original boards (a molotov cocktail, 3-in-1 RUC man, and green ribbon), see C01373.
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Copyright © 2010 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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Support The POWs
“Support the POWs. An end to degrading strip searches. Freedom of association.” Board with companion flyer from 32CSM.
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Copyright © 2010 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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From The Greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna
There is a memorial “garden” and mural in Clós Ard An Lao, in Ardoyne, in remembrance of 38 local people (“from the greater Bone, Ballybone, Rosapenna area”) who died during the troubles.
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Let There Be No Bitterness
Michael Gaughan’s final message included the line “Let there be no bitterness on my behalf, but a determination to achieve the new Ireland for which I gladly die” which is loosely quoted in this hunger strikers Ardilea Close (in the Bone) mural. He is buried with Frank Stagg in Leigue Cemetery, Ballina (WP). The mural has been added behind the plaque to the hunger strikers in the middle-right: “Erected by the Olpark 1981 Committee. In proud and loving memories fo ten young Republicans who gave their lives during the 1981 hunger-strike in the H.Blocks of Long Kesh. No greater love than a man lay down his life for his friends.”
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WBTA
“Providing a community transport system for over 40 years.” The West Belfast Taxi Association (WBTA) have had a mural on the International Wall since at least 2006, offering tours of west Belfast and the murals in particular.
Martin Meehan was originally OIRA but switched to the Provisionals after the split. He was the first person convicted of membership of the PIRA and spent 18 years in prison during the Troubles (WP). “Codaıl samh a chomradaí.”
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Belfast Banksy
Banksy’s “Slave Labour” was sold on Sunday night for about three-quarter of a million pounds sterling, to an as-yet anonymous buyer. It was sold by the owners of the Poundland store on whose exterior wall it was originally stencilled. This BBC video shows the piece, both removed and in situ. In other Banksy news this weekend, his giant rat piece in Liverpool is to be removed and preserved.
The image above is a 2009 piece on Northumberland Street (Visual History page) imitating one of Banksy’s pieces in the West Bank. In the Bethlehem piece, the hole in the wall reveals a tropical paradise; here, it reveals the hills around Belfast. There is a shot of the artists painting the piece at the beginning of the documentary about them, “Paint For Peace“. This piece as later replaced by the Latuff “solidarity” mural.
See also: Bundoran Banksy | Sweep It Under The Carpet
2008 Channel 4 video about Banksy in the West Bank.
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Copyright © 2009 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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Support Republican Socialist Political Prisoners
IRSP mural on Northumberland Street, with the Starry Plough shining over the walls of Long Kesh.
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Copyright © 2009 Seosamh Mac Coılle
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Frederick Douglass
This mural is on the International Wall, Divis Street, celebrating Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 (WP).
“Inspired by two Irishmen to escape from slavery, Frederick Douglass came to Ireland during the famine. Henceforth he championed the abolition of slavery, women’s rights and Irish freedom.”
“Perhaps no class has carried prejudice against colour to a point more dangerous than have the Irish and yet no people have been more relentlessly oppressed on account of race and religion.
(Also by Douglass, and which would have made an apt quote for the mural: “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”)
Divis Street, Belfast. There would later be a larger Douglass mural on Northumberland St (Visual History).
To the left of the Guernica mural.
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