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More images from the Twaddell protest camp, this time from the north side of Twaddell Avenue.

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Twaddell Protest Camp

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Three images from the protest camp at the top of Twaddell Avenue, at the southern border of Ardoyne. The protest is in response to a parades commission ruling that, on July 12th, Orange marches could only go past the Ardoyne shops in the morning but not return via the same route.

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Hope Lost

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Above is a colourful metal-worked piece bolted to the “peace” line on Cupar Way, celebrating “Shankill Ingenuity” while commemorating the lives lost on Titanic.

“1140” p.m. local time, April 14th, 1912, was when the ship hit an iceberg and began sinking. At about 2:20 a.m., in the early hours of the 15th, it went under.

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Update from March 2024: here is the piece covered in tourists’ signatures.

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Identity

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Another colourful piece of metalwork on the Cupar Way “peace” line, celebrating the construction of the Titanic at Harland & Wolff shipyard.

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Belfast Inventiveness

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Titanic was hull number “401” at Harland & Wolff, and, after hitting an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14th, 1912, sank at 2:20 a.m. (WP). Above is another (see also Hope Lost, Identity) metal-work piece on the Cupar Way “peace” line, with images of a boat dock, solderers, and wind turbines.

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The “Peace” Line

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Previously we featured an image from the north (loyalist) side of the Cupar Way “peace” line, a.k.a. “war wall” or “wall of hostility” – the wall/fence separating neighbourhoods along the Shankill from those along the Falls. Here are two shots from the south (republican) side of the line, in Bombay Street. Divis tower is visible in the distance in the first. The second, below, shows the additional fencing that covers the backs of some houses.

More information about the west Belfast war wall is included in the Visual History page State Art Vs Graffiti On The West Belfast “Peace” Line.

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Let Go Of The Past

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Board on the Cupar Way side of the “peace” line showing, on the left hand side, rioters with petrol bombs attacking the police, the “peace” line, and a burning vehicle, and, on the right, construction workers, university graduates, and happy children. “Fight for a better future. It is your choice.” For more information, see Daniela Balmaverde.

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Australian Aid

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Above is an extra-wide shot (2700 pixels) of another panel from the wall next to the Republican Museum on Conway Street (next to the previously featured Eileen Hickey). The mural features banners of two Australian Republican support-groups, holding banners reading “Australian Aid for Ireland QLD [Queensland] Branch – The Spirit of Freedom” and “The Casement Support Group – Saoirse Melbourne”.

Eileen Hickey

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The ‘Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum‘ — which is across the street behind the Conway Mill — is named for Eileen Hickey, a Provisional IRA member who served time in Armagh prison; she died in 2006, one year before the opening of the museum (obituary at An Phoblacht). A close-up of the woman with a bin lid, in the lower right-hand corner, can be found below.

Next to the opening hours is an image of a prison cell in the Armagh women’s prison. The museum itself contains a cell door and a bed from the prison.

For the Oscar Romero mural in the wide shot, see Eyes That Have Cried. On the right is Australian Aid.

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