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Prison Walls

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2014-10-11 ArdyoneDetailFarrell+

Here are two details from the Ardoyne, Bone, Ligoniel mural presented separately, as well as a shot of bouquets of flowers in front of the plaque on the stone put in place in 2003. The first reproduces a photograph of Maıréad Farrell during the “no-wash” or “dirty” protest in Armagh Women’s Prison. (See the middle of this 1989 Frontline documentary.) The second shows the walls and guard-towers of the H-Blocks (featured previously in You Know Where). The frames and photographs of 40 locals are printed, not painted.

Video of the launch:

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X02277 X02278 X02279 dedicated to those friends and neighbours from ardoyne, the bone and ligoniel whose contribution and support to our struggle was and remains invaluable aıthníonn muıd a gcrógacht óglaıgh na héıreann meán fómhaır 2003

Fibre

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2014-10-11 BerwickVivaPalest+

A pro-Gaza “Viva Palestine” mural/stencil has replaced the Maıréad Farrell piece at the top of Berwick Road/Paráıd An Ardghleanna in Ardoyne/Ard Eoın. The flyer on the box touts high-speed broadband – you can go anywhere you want on-line, but, as can be seen from the wide shot below, the road itself runs straight into the Glenbryn “peace” line.

The mural – with stencilled fists and the image of Leila Khaled – is very similar to one in Hugo Street. It is positioned between ‘PSNI Not Welcome‘ and an RNU phoenix (shown in the Maıréad Farrell image)

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The Verticality Of The Divine

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2014-10-09 Connswater2+

One of the H&W cranes and the spire of Calvary Baptist church (and a street-light) reach to the heavens over the junction of Dee Street and Severn Street and (as the wider shot, below, shows) a “Connswater Women’s Group” mural.

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X02270 X02269 joining together the women of our community Nothing of the verticality of the divine, no sign of the hallucinatory presence of upright stone.

Maghaberry

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2014-10-09 StrandMaghaberryPOWs+

Maghaberry Prison’s Roe House, home to about 50 republican prisoners, was this past week the scene of a stand-off with prison guards, as 30 (BelTel) or 40 (BBC) inmates refused to enter their cells. There was also a protest outside the jail and a bomb-threat on Tuesday (U.tv).

The mural above is on the Mountpottinger Road wall in east Belfast’s Short Strand.

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Better Days

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2014-10-03 FallswaterIRA+

Here are three “nail-ups” from west Belfast, all showing their age.

The first is “IRA – Brits out, not sell out. Join RSF” in Fallswater Street.

The second is a “Lower Shankill UFF C Coy” board high above the “Shankill Protestant Boys UVF” mural at the junction of Northemberland Street and the Shankill.

The third is the phoenix in the apex above the mural in AMCOMRI Street.

The images were taken in late 2014; the phoenix goes back at least to 2003 and the others are at least six years old.

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Shrines To Our Ladies

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2014-10-03 NLodgeCnamBan+

Religion and politics mix in this image of the Blessed Virgin Mary gazing at a recent mural at the bottom of Teach Na bhFıann/Fianna House (formerly Dill House) in the New Lodge. “Cumann Na mBan” in Irish is “the women’s organization/council/society” in English. The organization in question is the republican paramilitary group which was founded on April 2, 1914 and celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

Previously: Mothering Sunday In Beechmount | Sister Soldiers | BVM Supports POWs

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Let Them Home

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2014-10-03 LetThemHomeWoodvale+

This graffiti on the hoardings around the building-site at the top of Woodvale Road is in reference to the on-going dispute at Twaddell Avenue, which is just to the right of the PSNI land-rover in the right of frame – each night Orange bands march up to the police line, attempting to march past the Ardoyne shops and finish a parade from the Twelfth (of July) 2013.

See previously: Civil Rights Camp | Twaddell Protest Camp | Supporters Club

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