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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The spires of St. Peter’s through the barbed wire on a wall in Milford Street, off the Falls Road.
See previously: Cross And Wire.
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The side of a vacant building on Lower North Street, just above the tag-mural done by the group of four during Belfast Culture Night.
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Crucifix on Northumberland Street interface dividing PUL and CNR west Belfast.
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The Ballybeen bonfire on Drumadoon Drive takes shape, with nine days to go. Tyres are stacked on pallets.
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This is a photograph of the outer fences of “you know where” – Long Kesh/the H Blocks/Her Majesty’s Prison Maze.
Whatever you say, say nothing
When you talk about you-know-what.
For if you-know-who could hear you
You know what you’d get –
They’d take you off to you-know-where
– Colum Sands “Whatever You Say, Say Nothing”
Colum Sands’s song (1981) is pre-dated by Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem of the same name, from the collection North.
“This morning from a dewy motorway
I saw the new camp for the internees …”
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This is the Cupar Way “peace” line in 2004. Note that the wall only has two (vertical) parts – a third tier will later be added that almost doubles the height of the barrier. It also has very little art – in 2009 both state-funded agencies and wild-style writers will take to the wall. (See the Visual History page.)
The two pieces that can be seen here show a dove in barbed wire with a quote from Ephesians 2:14 (“For He Himself is our peace who has made the two one and destroyed the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing in His flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His Purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of two, thus making peace and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by which He put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace … For through Him we both have access to the Father by one spirit.”) and a mural for New Life church, which is in the no-man’s land between the Northumberland street barricades.
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