A detail from a board in Tower Street (off the Lower Newtownards Road) featuring a young girl carrying a union flag – a famous photograph from VE Day, 1945. For the whole mural, see M04869.
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A Union Flag in the window of a house on the Lower Newtownards Road, east Belfast.
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A pensioner on the way to St. Matthew’s in Bryson Street for Sunday mass.
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A mural in Shiels Street/Sráıd Uí Shıaıl on the side of the offices of the Suicide Awareness and Support Group (Facebook) – “Reaching out is a strength not a weakness”. The plaque to the right notes that the original (1891) home pitch of Belfast Celtic was near this spot. It was known as “Boghead”; in 1901 they moved to Celtic Park, known as “Paradise”. (WP | belfastceltic.org)
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Another union jack, this time on the Shore Road, next to a banner boasting that Crusaders (see previously one | two) are “All Ireland Champions 2012”, having won the Setanta cup (WP). “Setanta” is Cú Chulaınn’s original name (Visual History); Setanta sports-television business based in Dublin (WP).
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We’ve mentioned elsewhere the efforts of Belfast City Council to remove or paint out graffiti and flyers, and here is one of the gentlemen whose task that is. He and his mate get a print-out each morning of where the most lewd, sectarian, awful scripts are in the city and off they go with brushes, power-hoses, hot water, cold water and so on. Once they have taken care of the graffiti for the day, they turn to chewing gum. They have two methods of removing gum from pavements, one hot — for winter time — another cold — for summer.
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The right-most part of the Mickey Marley mural is painted on the security gate. The girl swinging on the rope seems to have inadvertently intruded from another world.
Wider shot below …
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“You might easy know a doffer when she comes to town/With her long yellow hair and her pickers hanging down/With her rubber ties [tied] before her and her scraper in her hand. … [the verse concludes: She’ll never get a man]” (Traditional Music). Conway Mill closed in the mid-70s but from 1982 onward has been used for community development; since 2000 it has been a listed building (Conway Mill).
Conway Street, west Belfast
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Seasonal greeting in support of Republican political prisoners – with candles at base – in Northumberland Street (Visual History). This is the centre part of a wider mural-board composite – left and right shots below.
The “Nollaıg shona” and board in the picture just above together replace the previous “human rights” mural; the area below the “doors” hoarding, where the phoenix now appears, was previously blank.
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Protests over the December 3rd vote not to fly the union jack every day at Belfast City Hall continued last night (2012-12-17 — video from BBC-NI | U.tv). The image above shows a flag flying on the loyalist side framed by the pedestrian gate on Northumberland Street. The image below shows one shot across the Cupar Way “peace” line, from Conway Street.
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