Work-site curtaining on Inverary Avenue bears a protest message concerning the residents of a new development by Trinity Housing. “Trinity House – Local people in local homes! In it for the long haul! Protest still ongoing. No change until Trinity sees sence. Nobody moving in until local residents are housed!!”
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A subdued, sheet-covered, Indian community hall, between the Carlisle Memorial church and the Clifton Street Orange Order hall, was open to the public during the European Heritage Open Days.
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“Time Is Running Out” – Graffiti (including some fake clock hands) has been added to Rita Duffy’s ‘Banquet’ piece on the Cupar Way “peace” line. The whole board is presented separately.
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Above is another ‘Alternatives‘ board, on Cupar Way, encouraging reconciliation between victims and offenders (alternativesrj.org).
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X01284 the offence offender victim restorative journey agree resolution responsibility restitution reconciliation provides an opportunity for those directly affected by an offence to communicate and agree how to deal with the offence and its consequences alternatives mediation heard accepted compassion empathy proud respected empowered in control satisfied
Street art by Verz (ig) making reference to the fire in the North Street Arcade – see Who Burnt Us Out?.
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A bricked-up tailor’s shop in Crossmaglen, County Armagh/Ard Mhacha – Sew What Alterations
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A sign in Crossmaglen/Crois Mhic Lionnáin: No absentee landlords repossessor’s or their agents wanted in south Armagh.
The sign is presumably in relation to the shuttered Quinn’s supermarket across the street, of which there are three images below. The graffiti reads ‘No Sale’ and ‘No land grabbers here’. The supermarket closed in June, 2013 (Crossmaglen Examiner).
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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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These stencils on the back of the dole office, visible from Great Patrick St, are lamenting the lack of jobs. “Why do they keep sending me to look for jobs that aren’t there?” “5,000 jobs to be created each year. 125,000 people out of work.”
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Writer’s Square in central Belfast is still being ‘Occupy’ed. This image was taken during the week of the G8 summit. The quote attributed to Albert Einstein reads, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
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