The word “dream” in multiple languages around 40 images of children – 8 each in five panels on Oxford Street. This is the first/left-most one.
By Rita Duffy on Oxford Street, Belfast city centre.
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“Demand dignity – end forced evictions. Justice, hope, homes, rights, security.” Dollar bills spew from the exhaust pipes of bulldozers driven by cigar-smoking financiers as they bear down on a chain of protesters in this Amnesty International board at the corner of Northumberland and Beverley Streets. “Join Amnesty and take action for human rights worldwide http://www.amnesty.org.uk/join”
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Graffiti on the side of Cliftonville’s football ground – ‘Not for Shale’.
There is a persistent if low-level anti-fracking campaign in north Belfast. The proposed fracking is to take place in Fermanagh-Leitrim-Cavan area.
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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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“Housing right – human rights. 5,000 sleeping rough on our streets, 100,000 families on waiting lists, 350,000 empty properties. There are no excuses!” IRSP poster in CNR Belfast, with two stickers on the lamp-post: “An Bhreataın amach as Éırınn – Saoırse Anoıs!” and “Free Marian Price”.
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Jimmy Savile Was Here: More graffiti on Thompson house, this time referencing the 2012 sex abuse scandal surrounding Jimmy Savile.
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éırígí stencil-on-boards on Northumberland St. & Divis St. in sharp contrast to the advertising hoardings above.
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These three images are from Thompson House on the Antrim Road (at Fortwilliam shops). Thompson House “aims to provide temporary accommodation for offenders with the purpose of reducing the risk of re-offending/harm to the community and by managed resettlement to prepare for move on to permanent accommodation” (PCI-BSW). The residents include sex offenders. Locals are unhappy with the hostel and against the current extension/redevelopment (Tele). A pipe bomb was left at the site last (2011) October (BBC-NI). The pictures here (from the week ending October 20th, 2012) show graffiti at the site.
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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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