Greencastle Orange Hall (L.O.L. No. 658), Whitewell Road, taken on the same day that the SF mayor of Derry helped the Apprentice Boys launch a new museum/visitors centre in the city.
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A colourful mural on Sráıd Brighton (Brighton Street, Falls at Broadway) from the organization Pobal.
“ar scáth a chéıle” is a shortened version of “Is ar scáth a chéıle a mhaıreann na daoıne”: it is in each other’s shadow (or, as here?, umbr(ell)a) that the people exist; figuratively “no man is an island” or as Dimitry put it in Dostoevsky’s The Brother Karamazov, “we are all responsible for all”.
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X00681 conflict resolution services, 217 falls rd, belfast, ag abhcóıdeacht ar son na gaeılge, pobal: advocacy for the irish language, forbaırt pobaıl, community development, taıghde, research, faıreachán, monitoring, straıtéıs, strategy, cearta & ceılıúıradh, rights and revelry, ealaíon, arts, reachtaíoch, legislation
In Belfast, the gates (in the so-called “peace” lines) open up to admit various earthly pleasures and pains, as well as the king of glory. The New Life City Church at the lower gates on Northumberland Street.
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X00680 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and the king of glory shall come in – Psalm 24.7, Pedestrians look right, c.r.f., ice cream
This long board for “International Peace Day – 21st September” sits between the security gates on Northumberland Street (Visual History) and bridges images of the Shankill (on the left) and images of the Falls (on the right) with sunflowers and a quote from Martin Luther King (and a mosaic of additional photos): “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality [tied in a single garment of destiny]. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly” (Letter From A Birmingham Jail. As always with murals of this type, all of the photographs are of the two areas in yesteryear – no mention of the Troubles. Organised by Springboard Opportunities (web), with support from the Shankill history group, the Gaeltacht Quarter, and the Ireland Funds.
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Two pieces from the recently seeded, though still enclosed, site of the old Andersonstown police station, both commenting on austerity measures prompted by the current recession. On Oct. 9th, 2012 the Assembly passed the first stage of a welfare bill (instigated by London) which will cut benefits significantly (BBC). SF and the SDLP opposed the measure. In the background of the shot below various SF boards can be seen.
The meme “____ Isn’t Working” in the placard below originates with this classic Labour Isn’t Working poster from 1978.
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X00679 X00675 slash stormont not services, capitalism doesn’t work, stormont isn’t working, http://www.eirigi.org
This large Martin Corey board is on a fence that runs round Springfield Road police station.
Previously: Martin Corey stencils, with links to background information.
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X00676 end british internment of irish citizens release martin corey now
A new mural was launched on Sunday (Oct 7th, 2012) on the international wall, presenting five local (lower Falls) volunteers who died at this time forty years ago (during 1972): Daniel McAreavey, Joseph McKinney, Jimmy Quigley, John Donaghy, Patrick Maguire (real name Patrick Pendleton). Maguire, McKinney and Donaghy died together in an explosion (Oct 10); Quigley (Sept 29) and McAreavey (Oct 6) were shot. For further details of the how these five met their deaths, see among others Lost Lives by McKittrick et al. (Archive.org | Amazon UK | US). Biographies of the five begin at 7m46s in this history of D Company. Quigley holds a copy of James Connolly’s 1910 pamphlet Labour in Irish History.
Image of the mural in development.
Video of the parade and unveiling on youtube.
Takes the place of the Raıdıó Fáılte mural on the International Wall.
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X00671 danny, joe, jimmy, JD, paddy, “They shall be spoken of among their people and the generations shall remember them and call them blessed” – PH Pearse from ‘The Mother‘
“End sectarianism – it hasn’t gone away. Bring down the walls.” Workers Party (web) stencil on Northumberland Street, Belfast. “It hasn’t gone away” echoes Gerry Adams’s remark (Sunday 13 August, 1995) that the IRA “haven’t gone away”.
Below, a Workers Party banner rests against a wall in Custom House Square prior to the march Up The Shankill And Down The Falls on Saturday (October 6th, 2012), the day before the mural was photographed.
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There are houses on only one side of Azmor Street and they look across at the ends of the houses across the street (Brookmount Street) – the writing is on the end of one of these houses but the graffiti is only visible from Azmor Street. A very old piece of graffiti on an old row of houses, due for demolition.
Shankill area, west Belfast
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X00672 fuck off pnsi wptp uff, ulster is owers, c/coy, l/s
“End British political policing. End internment of Irish citizens.”
Ant-Agreement stencil in the New Lodge.
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