graffiti/writing

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2014-11-21 PittPark+

A tale of two east Belfasts: above is the playground at Pitt Park (next to the Ballymac Youth Centre’s SafeZone); below is Dee Street at its junction with Medway and Severn Streets and next to the Connswater Women’s Group (see The Verticality Of The Divine): “Quis Separabit • Simply the best • UFF • UDA”.

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Take It Down From The Mast

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2014-11-10 FlashTraitor+

“Take It Down From The Mast” is a song accusing pro-treaty forces (at the time of the Irish Civil War) of being unworthy to fly the Irish tricolour (WP). Someone in west Belfast feels the same way about “Flash”, Sınn Féın councillor Jim McVeigh, who tried asked for a Tricolour flying at a Springfield Road Council dump to be removed in October (2014), and calls him an “Irish traitor”.

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Let Them Home

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2014-10-03 LetThemHomeWoodvale+

This graffiti on the hoardings around the building-site at the top of Woodvale Road is in reference to the on-going dispute at Twaddell Avenue, which is just to the right of the PSNI land-rover in the right of frame – each night Orange bands march up to the police line, attempting to march past the Ardoyne shops and finish a parade from the Twelfth (of July) 2013.

See previously: Civil Rights Camp | Twaddell Protest Camp | Supporters Club

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Let’s Melt

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2014-09-24 CNBConzoElphClose+

Two Scottish street artists, Conzo Throb from Glasgow and Elph from Edinburgh, combined to produce the street art above. It features Elph’s distinctive psychedelic landscapes with Conzo’s Taps Aff, with Terror Cheb protruding. (A wide shot is below.) They also each did an individual piece for CNB14: see previously Fill Up On Colour (Conzo Throb) and The Imaginarium (Elph) as well as Elph’s work for the Menagerie bar in The Piano Has Been Smoking and Eyes Wide Shut.

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Belfast, You’re Melting My Head

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2014-09-22 YorkLocals+

Pastor James McConnell, who denounced Muslims as “satanists” back in May at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle, is finally seeking help, attending “Despots Anonymous” in the company of a Muslim, a Jew, and a Sikh. The group meets next door to 1690, home to a football-loving boy from a family of immigrants who are under attack because the housing is for “locals only” – see the final image for just such a graffito in Pine Way. The bottle of Buckfast preaches “Love thy neighbour as thyself”.

This is another part of Ciaran Gallagher’s (web) “Belfast Stripped Bare” piece in the Duke of York/Dark Horse courtyard. The wide shot, below, shows Carl “The Jackal” Frampton in an upstairs window. There’s also, above the piece, an accompanying poem by Alice McCullough, “Belfast You’re Melting My Head”, which you can watch her recite in front of the piece.

Previously: Belfast Stripped Bare | Teenage Dreams

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