Three shots of an old mural above the steps to the pedestrian walkway over the Sydenham bypass in east Belfast, featuring workers from the turn of the 20th century at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, which can be seen in the third image.
Previously: Titanic Workers – South Belfast | North Belfast
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Above is a new (2013-06) mural on Ballymurphy Road painted by a local artist with the assistance of local youths, who suggested the song and insisted on the praying hands (at the extreme right, and in the image below). The mural features a smartphone (and a set of Beats headphones) showing the number for the 24/7 suicide help-line. The song, You’ll Never Walk Alone, is from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel, but is know to people in GB and Ireland as the anthem of Liverpool football fans, who adopted it from the 1963 version by Gerry & The Pacemakers.
You’ll Never Walk Alone
When you walk thru’ a storm, hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm lies a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart!
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X01138 X01137 don’t let your friends be alone put these numbers in your phone helpline life line 24/7 08088088000 it’s all good
Graffiti in Holywood giving voice to the feeling among Protestants that they have lost control (and that bringing back Johnny Adair might help).
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Mural in the Tullycarnet estate to the local flute band (“established 2007” Fb), showing various UK flags and the lion and the unicorn from the UK coat of arms. According to the nursery rhyme, “the lion beat the unicorn/all around the town” and so only the lion wears a crown.
Previously: TFB mural in the subway under Kings Road.
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The Angry Birds puzzle game (on mobile devices and on Facebook) is a smash hit for Finnish game developers Rovio (WP) and is now a part of popular culture, including this take-off on the Comber Walkway – angry burners.
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Pallets lined up in preparation for bonfires on the Twelfth (of July) in front of the human rights mural on the green behind Hopewell Crescent. A mural of the event being celebrated – King Billy (William Of Orange) crossing the Boyne river in 1690 – can be seen in the distance on the right. The words on the wall to the right read: “Where after all do universal human rights begin? … In small places close to home, so close & so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world … such are the places that every man, woman & child seek equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity.”
In the image below, more pallets and a couch.
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X01116 X01115 [X01568] [X05277] mental health it affects us all sustainable employment required for all regeneration not gentrification to be treated with the utmost dignity and respect at all times right to a proper education
A three-stone memorial to army soldiers from both World Wards in Tullycarnet, featuring a line from the gospel of John (“Greater love has no-one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” 15:13) and a song by Randall Wallace for the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers called ‘The Mansions of the Lord’: To fallen soldiers let us sing, where no rockets fly nor bullets wing, our broken brothers let us bring, to the mansions of the Lord. No more weeping, no more fight, no prayers pleading through the night, just divine embrace, eternal light, in the mansions of the Lord. Where no mothers cry and no children weep, we will stand and guard though the angels sleep, Oh through the ages safely keep, the mansions of the Lord.”
By Ross Wilson with support from the International Fund For Ireland (IFI)
For a wide shot, see War And Peace.
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The three central panels of the World Wars memorial in Tullycarnet (featured separately), along with two smaller stones, stand in front of a mural reading “Time for peace. Invest in kids … not war!”. The image of a boy playing with a ball against a wall is based on a 1994 photograph by Crispin Rodwell. The slogan in the photograph, originally, was “Time for peace; time to go” but for publication, as here, the second part was cropped out.
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Religious mural somewhere in the ?lower? Shankill. Please get in touch if you know the precise location.
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Anti-drugs board in the Tullycarnet estate. In both its title and various elements, the board references the television show Shameless, which was set on a Manchester housing estate and ended on May 28, 2013, after eleven seasons (WP). Black-and-white images from the estate, and other Belfast landmarks, are featured at the top.
The plaque below reads: Shameful mural. This mural was officially unveiled on 15th June 2009 by First Minister Peter Robinson. This mural was created by young people from Tullycarnet to highlight that drug and alcohol use should not be normalized by communities.
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X01103 the real life series debt help crime fasa fear lifeline addiction crime stoppers depression samaritans; make drugs history cleaner communities now; substance abuse suicide awareness
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