32 County Sovereignty Movement (web) graffiti on the Alliance Avenue “peace” line.
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Yer Da Sells Avon
Glasgow artist Conzo Throb (web | Fb) was back in Belfast for CNB16/HTN. The Avon name dates back to 1929 in New York and the company has sellers in more than 100 countries. Male sellers are uncommon but not unheard of – here’s a 2006 NYTimes profile of an ‘Avon Man’. Nonetheless, “Yer Da sells [the] Avon” is the ultimate Scots insult.
Previously by Conzo Throb: Fill Up On Colour | Let’s Melt
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Ich Bin Ein Belfaster
Travel site In Your Pocket recently solicited a good term for people from Belfast. In 1963, JFK went to West Berlin and expressed solidarity with the encircled residents by saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” (inviting the misunderstanding that he was a Berliner Krapfen or jelly doughnut”, but the spirit of the message was clear). (WP has more info and video.) The stencil above puts Kennedy in Belfast: Ich bin ein Belfaster.
Thanks to Brendan McGarry for this image.
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Taughmonagh Family Learning Centre
Three images from the Taughmongh Family Learning Centre (run by Taughmonagh Community Forum) in Finwood Park of children from days gone by: the boys are playing football and girls are playing games in the street, in front of the old bungalows on the estate from the 1940s that were replaced in the 1980s. (For a small gallery of vintage images, see this BBC page.).
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Taughmonagh Remembers
The bus turnaround at the entrance to Taughmonagh estate has been turned into a Somme Garden (see the third image, below). The “Welcome to Taughmonagh” sign at entrance has been covered over with a Union flag board with “Taughmonagh remembers” and the three figures in the sculpture in the middle have each been given a union jack cap.
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X03922 X03920 X03921 Taughmonagh heritage and culture society the bulbs for this somme garden were bought with donations by from the estate planted by the children to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle of the somme and in the morning we will remember them
The Duke Of Windsor
Tommy Dickson ended his career (in 1965) with a partial season at Glentoran. Before that, however, he spent 16 seasons in the first team at Linfield, scoring 451 goals and leading the club to titles in the League Cup, Irish Cup, Gold Cup, Ulster Cup, City Cup, North-South Cup, and County Antrim Shield (shown at the top of the mural). (WP)
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Buddha Cat
A meditating cat-headed figure with glowing heart in Kent St.
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By The Campfire Light
Here’s a piece of street art (in Kent Street) showing two figures out at night, perhaps dancing by the campfire or toasting marshmallows or worshipping a tree god? The wide shot shows how the piece was made to fit with the Gorny Goohoo already in place.
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The Huntress
Here are two close-ups of Friz’s The Huntress, with dog straining at the chain within sight of the deer leaping in the background. The piece was painted in Kent Street for CNB16/Hit The North, with Danleo’s Palm Cockatoo in the background.
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Big Daddy’s Funeral
The Royal Ulster Academy Of Art’s Art In The City exhibition, which runs through October and November, puts (reproductions of) 12 works of art on the Belfast streets. The work shown above is Dan Dowling’s Big Daddy’s Funeral – the funeral is happening just left of the bus, outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in Donegall Street, which is where the painting itself can be found.
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