All The Children Laugh And Shout

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Here is a detail from a fairly long mural depicting children’s street games and Mickey Marley’s Roundabout (pulled by his horse Joey) on a wall and security gate that are part of the Townsend Street “peace” line. (For another pole swing, see Stroud Street.) Mickey Marley was so well-known that a song was written for him, which you can hear on youtube.

Townsend Street Presbyterian church can be seen in the background and in the mural. For the part on the gate, see Through The Wardrobe.

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Housing Rights Are Human Rights

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“Housing right – human rights. 5,000 sleeping rough on our streets, 100,000 families on waiting lists, 350,000 empty properties. There are no excuses!” IRSP poster in CNR Belfast, with two stickers on the lamp-post: “An Bhreataın amach as Éırınn – Saoırse Anoıs!” and “Free Marian Price”.

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Pat Finucane

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A new board commemorating Pat Finucane (WP), on Beechmount Avenue. A British report into his death was published yesterday, 2012-12-12 (Tele | BBC-NI | Slugger).

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X00773 human rights activist pat finucane 1949-1989 targeted by british establishment executed by unionist death squads, if you don’t defend human rights lawyers who will defend human rights? rosemary nelson (WP)

Union Jack – Donegall Pass

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The Union Flag is, how shall we say, “all the rage” these days. (Background from BBC-NI. Here is youtube video of the famous “No Surrender” scream. Gallery of images from protests on Dec 3rd | Dec 8th from U.Tv. Lots of coverage on Slugger O’Toole.) This one is flying over a ‘Give Way’ sign in Donegall Pass.

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Castlereagh Street Shipyard Workers

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A board at the top of Castlereagh Street listing residents of the street who worked in 1911 on the Titanic and Olympic. With plane-breaking lifeboats and sponsorship from Belfast City Council (see Daniela Balmaverde’s page on the project), the Department for Social Development and the Titanic Foundation.

Wide show below ….

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X00763 X00764 X05206 boiler maker plater iron turner shipyard marine engineer draughtsman smith fitter helper, carpenter apprentice joiner moulder chief harbour board clear storekeeper’s office, ropemaker, labourer, leighton cunningham, william horsly, william nelson, francis gregson, james taylor, robert keenan, john miller, joseph atkinson, john porter, william boyd, thomas finney, joseph walker, joseph simpson, sidney ham, archibald hutchinson, andrew mulgrew, james brown, robert dobson, robert simpson, john mccurley, william roy, charles cameron, john m. murray, john lapidge, william horsly (again?), thomas maitland, thomas valentine, alexander mccallum, thomas henderson, george moody, ?jack? kennedy, william wise, edward thomson, william henry ?adison?, bartholemew ivory, john campbell, james miller