The Israeli flag flies on a fence (along with other flags, not in shot) outside the Eastway social club in Rathcoole. On the wall of the club is a union flag with the letters “CYCFB” standing for “Cloughfern Young Conquerors Flute Band”. The band will next parade in the area on August 17th. The “T” of “Eastway” is the Tennent’s Lager brand.
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Shamrock, thistle, and rose are shown in this South East Antrim Ulster Defence Union mural but the daffodil is not, even though the Welsh “Red Dragon” is included alongside the Scottish Saltire, the flag of Northern Ireland, and Queen Elizabeth II’s royal standard.
The Ulster Defence Union was a loyalist organization founded to fight against Home Rule, launched on 17 March 1893. The name is now used by the post-ceasefire UDA (beginning in 2007: Newsletter | Remembrance Day Statement at CAIN).
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This board to Seán Mac Dıarmada in Ardoyne details his exploits leading up to and including the 1916 uprising and his earlier connection with the local area.
Below, a wide shot showing the end of Butler Walk and the Holy Cross church in the background. Painted by Rısteard Ó Murchú.
Previously: Mac Dıarmada also appears in the Bone Staır Na Gaeılge mural. Also: Damn Your Concessions, England in the New Lodge
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X01196 X01197 damn your concessions england we want our country was born in co. leitrim in 1883 lived at 106 butler street in 1906-08 joined the dungannon clubs and the irb [irish republican brotherhood[ in belfast national organiser member of the irish volunteers signatories executed by the british on may 12th 1916 society belfast
A billboard for this year’s Féıle, which begins on August 1st and, in addition to the various musical acts shown here, includes an exhibition in the Conway Mill on the murals of Belfast and Los Angeles. This hoarding is at the junction of Kinnaird Street and the Antrim Road.
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A recently installed plaque to Carl Gilbert Hardebeck in the vestibule of Holy Family Church, Limestone Rd. Of German and Welsh extraction, born in London, and blind from an early age, he came to Belfast when he was 24. He learned Irish and began collecting Irish music. Hardebeck believed that if there was music in hell it was the bagpipes!
Eugene Dunphy, who has made a film on Hardebeck, spoke at the unveiling, and the brothers Mac Maoláın, retired priests Breandán and Caoımhín, unveiled the plaque. The unveiling ceremony, including performance of a Hardebeck piece, is documented in the video below. Dunphy is still researching the life of Hardebeck; if you have any information, contact him via his Hardebeck web site. (2016-04 Irish News article)
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X01195 1869-1945 organist at holy family from 1897 to 1904 at st peter’s west belfast from 1904 to 1919 blind musician collector arranger and composer of irish music became fluent in irish first to adapt the braille system for the irish language born in clerkenwell london died in dublin an ceol, solas sa dorchadas with information supplied by eugene dunphy plaque installed by fr gerry mccloskey and parishioners june 22nd 2013
Republican flyers on Northumberland Street, next to the ‘famous faces’/30th anniversary of the hunger strike mural (and to the right of that, a new Nelson Mandela mural).
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“This memorable [sic] plague [sic] is dedicated to the 1st victim of the present troubles, Sammy McLarnon, RIP, who was brutally murdered in his own home at 37 Herbert St by the RUC on 15th Aug., 1969.” For more, see this Irish Times article about a 1999 community inquest.
On the wider wall is the graffito “Cara don’t represent me”.
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“”In my country we go to prison first and then become President” – Madiba, Nelson Mandela, freedom lover, friend of Ireland.”
Above is a new mural on Northumberland Street (not on Divis Street’s international wall) in honour of the ailing Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, on July 18th. Painted by Lucas Quigley (you can see a signature and a telephone number in the lower right), the mural features Mandela, the flags of Ireland and South Africa, and the Sınn Féın logo (in contrast with the dissident flyers further up to the left, shown in 1 Ireland, 1 Vote). Detail below. The photo reproduced is probably this Getty image.
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The Red Army are the supporters of Cliftonville football team which this past (2012-2013) season won both the Irish League Cup and the League Championship. The mural on the right had side, detailed below, looks in such good condition because it was touched up on July 17th —in time for that night’s Champions League match against Celtic — after being vandalized on the 16th.
There is a good summary of Cliftonville history (including their present-day successes), as well as a picture of the “Let’s All Do The Huddle” mural painted for the occasion of the Celtic visit, at the blog Four-Four-Two.
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Members of local graffit artist crew TMN (whose names are listed in the lower left) have collaborated on this new anti-capitalist mural in College Court in the city centre, attacking The Sun (newspaper) and the recently deceased former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who is shown here with glowing eyes: “The Sun will make you blind life people say … cost you your sight as well as 30p a day.”
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