Belfast east

David Ervine

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Here are three images of the 2008 David Ervine (WP) board by Ross Wilson in Montrose Street South, the area Ervine came from, with one of the Harland & Wolff cranes reflecting his connection to working class politics.

Working class Protestantism (and nationalism) was a large part of the discussion of Pete Shirlow’s The End Of Ulster Loyalism? on Sunday Sequence (starting at the 33 minute mark).

Two details below, the left and right sides, with flowers at the base of a broken-off tree in the foreground … for the sculpture, see Memory Chair.

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Working On A Building

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Belfast is getting two new pieces of streetart as part of the East Belfast Arts Festival, one by Friz and one by Hicks54. Both are a-political artists from outside Northern Ireland. Friz is now based in Belfast. Hicks is/was a member of the 54 collective, in Southampton, England.

Above is Friz completing her mural in Constance Street, Sept. 8th.

The muraling during the Festival is “in conjunction with the Lower Castlereagh Community Group, East Belfast Partnership, and kindly funded by the Lloyds TSB Foundation”.

Below is (Ed) Hicks54 in front of his project, on the Newtownards Rd … (across from McDonalds) and a wide shot of the whole scaffold …

There’s an even earlier development shot at his flickr account.

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Flags Flying

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A view of the outside of the Orange Hall on Albertbridge Road (from three weeks ago), with flags and banners of the Queen and today’s Covenant celebrations. Here’s a piece from the Tele on Covenant celebrations in 1962, at the 50 year mark.

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Moving Forward

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Wild-style writing is combined with images of local street signs and portraits of east Belfast luminaries such as George Best, Van Morrison, and CS Lewis.

“Created as part of Belfast City Council’s Creative Legacies programme by the young people of ‘The Klub’ at Dee Street Community Centre and artist Daniela Balmaverde. With PEACE III funding.

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Always British

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Cluan Place is a single street in east Belfast separated from (nationalist) Short Strand by a “peace” line. For a history of Cluan Place, see Out Of The Ashes. “5 people shot – houses burnt – houses bombed. 20 families intimidated out by Sinn Fein/IRA. Still loyalist. No surrender.”

The mural – to make the point that Northern Ireland is British – features an unusual combination of Union Flag and Ulster Banner.

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The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

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Here are three close-ups from the mural CS Lewis’s book The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe in Convention Court, east Belfast. (For the whole, see M02946.)

This mural replaced the mural putting the Red Branch Knights and the Red Hand Commando in parallel – see the Visual History page on Cú Chulaınn.

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