Here is another mural celebrating the Northern Ireland football team with the slogan “our wee country” on the top part of a wall of the Times Bar in York Road.
George Best is on the left and David Healy on the right.
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Fiddler Art Lundy is depicted in the mural on the side of Madden’s bar in Berry St, just below Castle Court. Note the ‘decommissioned’ ashtray!
The original photograph of Lundy is by Frankie Quinn (web).
Front door and mural detail below.
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This house-front on the Shore Road is a mix of union flags and Christmas decorations. The centre-piece states that the resident is “Proud To Be British”.
The ASDA railings in the background were the site of the memorial to Billy Hunter.
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This vintage UDA/UFF stencil goes back to the time of the ceasefire and the Agreement.
On the shutters of A1 Alterations on the Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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The industrial high-point of Belfast, according to this mural, would seem to be when people travelled on trams, cloth was woven by hand, and Titanic sat in dry dock. Only the Shorts-Bombardier aircraft confuses the nostalgia.
Bloomfield Ave, east Belfast
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A pensioner on the way to St. Matthew’s in Bryson Street for Sunday mass.
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A Union Flag in the window of a house on the Lower Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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A detail from a board in Tower Street (off the Lower Newtownards Road) featuring a young girl carrying a union flag – a famous photograph from VE Day, 1945. For the whole mural, see M04869.
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A mural in Shiels Street/Sráıd Uí Shıaıl on the side of the offices of the Suicide Awareness and Support Group (Facebook) – “Reaching out is a strength not a weakness”. The plaque to the right notes that the original (1891) home pitch of Belfast Celtic was near this spot. It was known as “Boghead”; in 1901 they moved to Celtic Park, known as “Paradise”. (WP | belfastceltic.org)
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We’ve mentioned elsewhere the efforts of Belfast City Council to remove or paint out graffiti and flyers, and here is one of the gentlemen whose task that is. He and his mate get a print-out each morning of where the most lewd, sectarian, awful scripts are in the city and off they go with brushes, power-hoses, hot water, cold water and so on. Once they have taken care of the graffiti for the day, they turn to chewing gum. They have two methods of removing gum from pavements, one hot — for winter time — another cold — for summer.
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