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“We stand with Palestine” below a Palestinian flag in Loughmacrory Road, Loughmacrory, Co Tyrone, a short distance from the IRA memorial plaques.
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Remembrance Sunday commemorates British and Commonwealth forces who died in the World Wars and other conflicts. It is held on the second Sunday of November – this year November 8th – close to Armistice Day on November 11th. Services will take place at memorials in many towns, including Belfast, Enniskillen, and Lisburn (Belfast Live | BBC), where this poppy bugler has been added in anticipation of the service.
Next to the Lisburn War Memorial (web) on the edge of Castle Gardens, Castle Street, Lisburn
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Despite its name and tag-line – el alma de Madrid/the soul of Madrid – Madrí Excepcional lager is brewed in Tadcaster, Yorkshire.
The art by Graffic Belfast (ig) above The Lark bar (ig) uses the houndstooth of the Madrí man alongside mill chimneys and weavers – as well as a crested bird (a tit or a lark) – from Lisburn.
See also: Mex (tequila) in lower Ormeau.
Lisburn Square, Lisburn
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This idyllic scene of smartly-dressed professionals and joyful families is on a hoarding in front of some waste ground in Lisburn town centre. Previously (prior to 2019), the hoarding showed shop windows and street-lights.
Smithfield Street, Lisburn
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This is a pair of small paintings at the Raven Social club in east Belfast. Above, a silhouette of David Ervine – see An Architect Of Peace. A lounge in the club is named after Ervine. And below, a small version of a mural in Londonderry, depicting the interaction between John Meeke of the 36th (Ulster) Division and Willie Redmond of the 16th (Irish) Division on Messines Ridge in 1917 – see Comrades In Arms. 1st Raven Somme Association holds an annual Battle Of Messines Parade (Raven Fb).
Previously from the Raven club: Quoth The Raven, “Evermore”.
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This entry updates 2024’s Pride Of Ardoyne, which described the boards added to the long-standing Billy Hanna plaque. Around the corner three images of water-features and candles have been added, behind a small wooden picket fence.
Ardoyne Road, north Belfast
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“The gospel rediscovered. Christ alone. Grace alone, Faith alone. Scripture alone. To God alone by the glory.”
Martin Luther sent his “Ninety-Five Theses” on the practice of selling indulgences (Disputatio Pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum), along with a letter, to the archbishop of Mainz on October 31st, 1517. They were subsequently printed by the press at Wittenberg University and distributed in various forms and by various means, including by being attached to the doors of local churches. (WP) Thus began, in retrospect, the reformation. Luther was declared a heretic in May, 1521. (See the old Martin Luther mural in the lower Shankill.)
A bonfire in Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, will be lit on October 31st to commemorate the Protestant Reformation and (perhaps) provide a contrast to the traditions that have come to be associated with Halloween, and to the pagan holiday of Samhaın.
For the RHC mural in the background, see As Proud Men.
O’Neill Road, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey
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‘Step Up For Change’ was a two-year “youth development” programme that “graduated” fifteen young people from east Belfast in July, 2026 (Phoenix Education | International Fund for Ireland).
Greenore Street, Willowfield, east Belfast, replacing The Legends and My Anchor Holds.
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“Keep CQ tidy”. Here are two tidiness-related pieces in the Cathedral Quarter: above and immediately below, Karl Fenz (web) uses the catchphrase “ya filthy animals” from the films Home Alone and Home Alone 2, and (last below), “I’ve got 99 problems but a bin ain’t one”, though the stencil is on a junction box and not on a bin. A 99 is an ice-cream cone with a (half) flake, perhaps purchased from Mackle’s (web) in Hill Street.
Marcus Keeley (on instagram) took a walk around the area and made a map showing bins on the street bordering the area but none in its middle. Business-owners in the area asked for more bins in May (Belfast Telegraph Fb reel). The bin in front of McCauley Culkin’s Kevin McCallister is newly placed (CQ Belfast’s ig).
Hill Street and Commercial Court, Belfast city centre
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1,000 copies of J.P. Beadle’s painting “Battle Of The Somme: Attack Of The Ulster Division” were produced in 1917 in order to raise funds for wounded soldiers and POWs of the First World War. It has been further reproduced in boards and paintings since the re-imaging wave in the mid 2000s (see Visual History 10 | some early instances: 2007 in Londonderry | 2008 in Belfast), including this one in Cookstown. The original painting hangs in Belfast City Hall. (Irish Untold)
Edinburgh Drive, Cookstown
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