Action Against Drugs (AAD) is a anti-drugs organisation of former IRA members and perhaps using IRA weapons. The ‘recruitment’ graffiti and warning to drug-dealers shown above is at the junction of Albert Street and Divis Street in west Belfast.
For more in the graffiti war against dealers, see 2017’s U’ll Do Nottin! and 2018’s Drug Dealers Will Be Shot.
For the mental health board, see Keep Ahead With Your Mental Health.
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Óglach Charlie Hughes was O.C. of PIRA D Company (“the dogs”) in west Belfast. He was killed in March 1971 as part of the feud between the OIRA and the Provisionals. PIRA volunteers, including Charlie and cousin Brendan Hughes (“The Dark”), had burned down OIRA drinking den The Burning Embers, across from Charlie’s house on Balkan Street, and were moving on to The Cracked Cup on Leeson Street, but were met with gunfire. Hughes was killed later that night, after a ceasefire had been agreed, by a single shot (WP | a 2002 account by The Dark). The mural replaces the small ‘1921’ tarp (see Do Not Touch).
The other figure shown is Palestinian skyjacker Leila Khaled (see also Oppression Breeds Resistance).
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The evolution of the #BuildHomesNow mural on Northumberland Street continues with a list of sites that PPR (Participation & the Practice of Rights tw | web) thinks suitable for building homes: Monagh, the Gasworks, Mackies, Sirocco, Belfast Harbour.
Previous versions: June 2016 | January 2017.
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Game Of Thrones character The Night King is one of the figures being painted (as the rain and snow allow!) in Bawnmore by Glen Molloy (Fb) for the Housing Executive.
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Here are two versions of CS Lewis’s character of Aslan, from The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe and the rest of the Chronicles Of Narnia, one by Glen Molloy in Bawnmore (alongside The Night King from Game Of Thrones) and the other by Alan Burke in Townsley Street (near Metal Work).
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The long wait for fans of the television series Game Of Thrones is over as season eight commences this week. Season seven ended in August 2017. Above is Daenyres of House Targaryen, seeking to reclaim the Iron Throne from her base in the Bawnmore estate. Previously: The Night King.
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“Between The Meadows And The Mountain” is a new work by Jodi Coyne (with help from the students at Coláıste Feırste) covering the Brian O’Doherty sculpture “Teanga – Aıslıng An Phobaıl“. The work depicts the four seasons and is covered in an Irish-English dictionary of terms related to nature (third image). Forbaırt Feırste have images of the launch.
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The two derelict houses at the top of the Springfield Road have had a make-over, with a paint-job and fake windows showing curtains and lamps. As can be seen in the two images below, the sides remain the same, with the Ballymurphy Massacre on one side and the Mass Graves Of Ireland mural on the other. Here’s a “before” view on Google Maps.
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Republican political party Saoradh (web) are organising a ‘National Republican Easter Commemoration’ on the Saturday before Easter Sunday (which is April 1st, this year). The parade is expected to be led by a colour party and marchers in combat gear (Irish News | BelTel).
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In addition to half a dozen murals, including one of Medjugorje (original | repaint), Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna in Ardoyne contains a set of ‘Stations Of The Cross’, the 14 steps recounting Jesus Of Nazareth’s last day. Other stations can be seen in U’ll Do Nottin | Changing The Stations.
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