A depiction in Iveagh Drive of the old Broadway picture house (long gone) which was located on the main Falls road nearby.
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At The Pictures
painted wall
Heritage
An Ulster-Scots-American president and a Turkish-Northern-Irish kebab shop. On Ainsworth St. and Shankill Rd. Here is a straight-on shot of the mural from 2004.
See also: the Visual History page on Ulster-Scots Murals.
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X00708 from pioneers to presidents, my ulster blood is my most priceless heritage, james buchanan 15th US president 1857-1861
Tartan
Graffiti art in Garfield Street, Belfast city centre.
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Fuck Art
Fuck Art graffiti in Lower North St. October 27th, 2012 – a defaced mural executed on Culture Night.
See also: An Essay On The Necessity Of Art | A Dialogue On The Nature Of Art.
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Graymount
An old wall in Graymount – N. Ireland flag with CRFC (Carrick Rangers Football Club?) written in each quadrant.
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Léana An Dúin CLG
Léana An Dúin/Lenadoon Avenue has a new GAA sports mural painted by Michael Doherty.
The mural is located in the heart of the community, surrounded by dense housing and at the local shops where there is a taxi rank and bus stop.
Wide shot of the complete mural below …
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X00696 X00695 cooper’s pharmacy, ag cuıdıú leıs an phobal
The Plan For Today
“Today’s plan is already yesterday’s – the streets that were there are gone”. Euphemistic nonsense on a giant hoarding on Castle Street in the city centre, fronting a building site. In keeping with the theme of easy erasure of the past, the words “love joy peace” have been removed from the original 1955 photograph (Belfast Live | X05827).
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X00698 X00699 today’s plan is already yesterday’s – the streets that were there are gone, smithfield ward west electoral area
The Hatchet Men
(Part of) A crusader mural from the wall of Crusaders football ground, in St Vincent Street (site of the titanic mural and blitz board from last week). Crusaders are known as ‘The Hatchet Men’ within the soccer world.
This image replaced a hooded gunman image. This space rises to a height of about 6 feet – so when you were driving out along Shore Road the gun appeared aimed at about driver head height – quite intimidating!
For the whole mural, see C02324.
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X00690 st. vincent st, mural sponsored by kneebreakers csc, alexander family
Titanic Town – North Belfast
The mural features “North Belfast dockers, millworkers, shipyard workers [from] Titanic town 1912”.
Along the bottom are the names of various Belfast pubs and other businesses: The Waterloo, The Terminus, The Sportsman’s Arms, The White Hart, The Bowling Green, The City Arms, The Orpheus – York Street, Railway Bar – Canning Street [image from 1970], The Edinburgh Castle [the boat of the Union-Castle line, launched 1910, built at H&W?], York Street Mill, The Gibralter [sic] Bar [whose then-owner was killed in 1972], Ye Old Castle [a bar (and restaurant?) bombed in 1971], The White Lion. Please leave a comment if you can add any information about these place-names.
A close-up of the info plaque at the top right can be found below. The piece was painted by Jim Russell from Glasgow.
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)’s collection of photographs of Belfast, 1912-1914 (some actually from 1911 and 1915) contains various shots of the area.
There are always cars parked in front of the mural, which is at the blind end of St. Vincent Street, next to Crusaders’ football ground. But finally we have captured it entire, automobile-free, in an extra-large (3854 pixels wide) image.
Previously: Titanic Town – South Belfast
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X00686 X01139 X00687 gibraltar north belfast dockers millworkers shipyard workers titanic town 1912, this mural was developed under belfast city council’s titanic community engagement project, with support from the titanic foundation. thanks go to jim crothers and the hubb community resources center
We The People
A colourful mural on Sráıd Brighton (Brighton Street, Falls at Broadway) from the organization Pobal.
“ar scáth a chéıle” is a shortened version of “Is ar scáth a chéıle a mhaıreann na daoıne”: it is in each other’s shadow (or, as here?, umbr(ell)a) that the people exist; figuratively “no man is an island” or as Dimitry put it in Dostoevsky’s The Brother Karamazov, “we are all responsible for all”.
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X00681 conflict resolution services, 217 falls rd, belfast, ag abhcóıdeacht ar son na gaeılge, pobal: advocacy for the irish language, forbaırt pobaıl, community development, taıghde, research, faıreachán, monitoring, straıtéıs, strategy, cearta & ceılıúıradh, rights and revelry, ealaíon, arts, reachtaíoch, legislation
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