Here are three details from the Narnia mural Pansy Street, Belfast: Aslan the lion, the witch’s winter world, and the author – CS Lewis, born in east Belfast. This is the second mural in the area on The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.
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Here are three close-ups from the mural CS Lewis’s book The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe in Convention Court, east Belfast. (For the whole, see M02946.)
This mural replaced the mural putting the Red Branch Knights and the Red Hand Commando in parallel – see the Visual History page on Cú Chulaınn.
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Sporting mural on the side of Sean Graham’s bookmakers. Ireland’s leading goal-scorer Robbie Keane is on the left. Cú Chulaınn plays hurling in the centre. (See also the mural on Casement Park M05144.) The boxer on the right is John Caldwell, a champion from the 1950s and 1960s from Cyprus Street (WP). Painted by a Short Strand artist at the junction of Whiterock and Falls roads.
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Fifteen years after painting, the Rockmount Street mural of Connolly and Liberty Hall is showing its age. Previously recorded in 2006.
Below Women In Struggle in Rockmount Street, west Belfast
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This is an end-of-life shot of the mural at the pedestrian entrance to the New Lodge. In the front is a landscape scene with “Welcome” in different languages; in the rear are street art figures and signatures; but graffiti covers all.
(Update: It was replaced in 2014 – both front and rear – by ‘old New Lodge’ images.)
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The William Drennan mural in the New Lodge is still hanging on, fourteen years after it was painted. See M01349.
Ludlow Square, New Lodge, north Belfast
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This is a companion piece to New Lodge 1900s. Life is now lived in colour, but suffers from underemployment, alcoholism, and suicide. The German bomber has been replaced by a British Army helicopter.
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The trials of life in the 1900s are depicted in this New Lodge mural. People work and die in the mills. The Germans drop bombs. Children go barefoot. The black-and-white colouring adds to the depression. The ‘New Lodge 2000‘ mural further down the road is in full colour, though life is still beset with problems.
For the mural on the low wall, see The Right To Be Happy (with republican slogan) and Young People’s Rights.
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The ‘Civil and religious liberty for all’ mural in Cambrai street has been ‘in progress’ for a long time. These images are from October 20th (first two) and November 7th (last two), 2011.
The mural, showing parades, bonfires, and Northern Ireland football, would eventually be completed in 2012 – see M08228.
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