graffiti/writing

Free The Shankill Six

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Graffiti in lower Shankill: “Free the Lower Shankill Six!! Send our prisoners home.”

According to this blog post, this is not political, but refers instead to six fellas done for stealing pallets. (Which perhaps means we can safely enjoy the old joke about the journalist asking the politician, “And what do you think about the Renault 5?”. To which the politician replied, “I think they should be released immediately.”)

To the right is a C-18 swastika.

Previously the “Play” mural and before that the “Can it change? We believe!” mural.

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Bundoran Banksy

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“Copyright is for losers © TM – Banksy”. A “Banksy”, about Banksy, in Bundoran.

The statement on the left appears on the printer’s page inside the cover of Wall And Piece, but is immediately followed by “Against his better judgment, Banksy has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 …”!

For Banksy, see banksy.co.uk, WP.

Related: (the real) Banksy’s Olympics works, Hackney Welcomes the Olympics and Going For Mould.

See also: Belfast Banksy

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Maghaberry Dirty Protest

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“Support the Maghaberry “Dirty Protest” 1981-2011″. Republican prisoners in Maghaberry began a dirty protest of throwing urine and excrement onto prison landings, as well as not washing or shaving, to protest forced strip searches (BBC).

See previously: Maghaberry Concentration Camp.

Beechmount Ave/Ascaill Ard Na bhFeá, west Belfast

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Our Queens

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Mixed reaction to the Diamond Jubilee visit of Queen Elizabeth II. Above, the remains of an RNU (Fb) poster which (in full) read “Send the Brit queen packing back to the depths of Hades – royal jubilee not welcome here, signed by: the army of unemployed.” and showing Elizabeth with half-human, half-skeleton face (reminiscent of a mural idea from 1989/1990 in Springhill and in Beechmount). (Full poster at Alamy.)

Below, “God save our queen” and “Fuck the queen” graffiti.

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Lenadoon Women In Struggle

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“Strong is what we make each other until we are strong together.” Women in struggle, (clockwise) banging binlids, undergoing strip searches, protesting internment, victims of plastic bullets (Julie Livingstone), fighting in Cumann Na mBan. On the right are the astrological symbol for woman and the republican symbol of “Saoirse” with the green star and fist. With “Free Marian Price” graffiti.

Dungloe Crescent, Lenadoon, west Belfast

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