“RNU call for the release of Leonard Peltier – http://www.freeleonard.org“. The lower left-hand panel of the RNU spot on Northumberland Street is serving as a changeable notice-board – it was previously The Popular Front.
Peltier has been in jail since 1977, convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 and sentenced to two life-sentences (WP).
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Jef Aérosol (Jean-François Perroy) is a French stencil-artist who did (at least) three pieces in Belfast. Below is a crossed-legged boy that was in Islandbawn Street and above is an accordion-player in Sevastopol Street; for a third piece, on Northumberland Street, see C02031. When the nearby Bobby Sands mural was extended this past year (2015), the stencil was retained. (See also the Visual History page of the Bobby Sands wall.)
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The mural of Padraig Pearse’s famous quote (“The fools, the fools …”) at the east end of Brompton Park has been replaced by the stencils above and below from the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (irpwa.com): “Oppose the isolation of Republican prisoners!” and “Stop strip searches!”. The final image is an older but similar stencil from the top of the Whiterock Road.
See also: Scaırt Amach | IRPWA | various Maghaberry murals.
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“Smash Stormont. Oppose Tory cuts.” INLA/IRSP stencil on Northumberland Street, calling for people to support a ‘day of action’ tomorrow (2015-03-13). Replaces These Colors Don’t Run.
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Stencil art from Patrick Devlin showing a suffering Jesus of Nazareth.
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Patrick Devlin mashes-up the scratched-up Mr. Lee (from Bruce Lee’s final movie, Enter The Dragon, 1973) with the jacket-and-tie style of early Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction). On the door of the Red Barn Gallery.
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Stencil street-art from Patrick Devlin outside the Red Barn Gallery in the city centre: a man in suit and tie is about to pull the pin on the grenade that is his head.
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Charlie Hedbo, the satirical Parisian weekly which became internationally known after a gun attack in January in which 12 were killed, is named after Charlie Brown (from Charles Schultz’s Peanuts) but the Charlie Chaplin above (as seen in The Kid) uses French to try to claim the name for himself. Chaplin and his family settled in French-speaking Switzerland after he was denied entry to the US as part of Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt of artists with alleged communist sympathies (WP). Stencil by Patrick Devlin in the city centre.
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Above is another Patrick Devlin stencil at the Red Barn Gallery. Extensive research has failed to reveal who/what the stencil is based on – some sort of nose-picking gorilla-monster in a cowl. Leave a comment or send an e-mail if you have an idea.
Previously by Devlin: Blowing My Mind | Attendez, Je Suis Charlie | Mr. Lee | The Passion
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CIRA stencil outside the offices of the West Belfast Partnership on the Falls Road, with the offices of Sınn Féın Poblachtach and a tricolour reflected in the window.
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