The IRSP/RSYM will commemorate the Easter Rising with wreath-laying in Derry (IRSP Derry Fb | RSYM Fb) on Saturday and a parade in Belfast on Easter Sunday (IRSP Lower Falls Fb). These posters of the seven signatories to the Proclamation are on the Falls Road, at Waterford Street/Dunville Park, west Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08693 T08694 T08695
“Palestine bleeds. Over 20,000 children killed. That’s more than one child killed every hour. And 42,000 injured by the Israeli murder machine. Their revenge will be the laughter of their children. Andersonstown stands with Palestine. We are all Palestinians.” The figures perhaps come from a Save The Children report from September, 2025.
South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast, next to the large Oppression Breeds Resistance mural.
See also: The Occupied Territories.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08642 T08643 T08644
The campaign urging the GAA to sever its ties to sponsor Allianz (web) began in August 25th, after an update to a 2024 report by the UN urged businesses – including Allianz – to end their ties with Israel (UN | youtube). In response, a letter of protest, signed by 800 former and current players, was delivered to the GAA (RTÉ) but a vote in December retained the sponsorship (BBC | Irish Examiner). Protests have continued (e.g. at the GAA congress), among which is this message written in posters on the hoarding around Casement Park (for which, see Build Casement Now).
Andersonstown Road, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08645 T08646
Belfast match-maker Maguire & Paterson made matches under the brands Buffalo, Swift, Bo-Peep, and City Hall (and perhaps others). The factory was on the Donegall Road, on what became, for a time, the site of West Side Stores (and is now a set of houses facing the Park Centre. Here is an aerial view (on Fb) of the factory in 1947, when Celtic Park was still standing.
This tribute to the Belfast match is by Leo Boyd (web) in Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08647 T08648
This is a pair of small boards at the corner of Balkan Street and Leeson Street, Divis, west Belfast.
Above, “Saoırse [freedom]” and “beır bua [seize victory]” and imagery of the four provinces and a lark in barbed wire are on top of the old Divis flats. The flats were built to replace the tightly-packed streets of the lower Falls. After the first three blocks were completed in 1969, there was a plan to have a mixture of flats all the way up to Dunville Park (“Phase 2” in this 30-minute BBC video on the flats, which also includes the story of its eventual demise.
Below, “For what died the sons of Róısín [Dubh]?” The Dogs of IRA D company, second battalion [Belfast brigade] are “unbowed” and “unbroken”.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08605 T08607 T08606
“Our youth, out culture, our community, our future”. This mural was painted in 2014 but the future for one of the clubs featured – Seán Mac Dıarmada/Seán Sean McDermott’s in the yellow with green stripe – was short-lived, as the club folded later the same year. The other club, Michael Davitt’s in the green, white, and gold strip, still exists.
Painted by Lucas Quigley in Sultan Way/Ross Road, Divis, west Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08609 T08610 T08608
These are small works on boards by Italian artist Jorit (ig) (full name Jorit Ciro Cerullo) who typically paints large walls. The pieces are all of human faces, and they all have in common a two pairs of joined streaks, one on each cheek.
The painting above has been mounted on Northumberland Street (Visual History), west Belfast, in a vacant spot left by the left-hand-side of the Climate Change board which dates back to 2012 and which was seen most recently with a Martyrs’ Committee board placed on top (T05821). On the right-hand-side there is now Soldiers Of The Republic.
The painting below is on the substation below Divis Tower. For the anti-joy-riding tarp, see 100 Years Of Partition.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08612 T08613
T08766 T08767
Four local landmarks are featured in this recent (2025-07) mural in Strabane. From left to right/top to bottom: one of the five Tinnies (TripAdvisor) (officially known as the ‘Let The Dance Begin’ sculpture), the pedestrian/cycle bridge (with a heart drawn around it), the pig sculpture (WikiMedia), and the boat in Abercorn Square (Geograph).
Painted by Peaball (web) and young people from SPARYA (Fb), with support from DC&S council (web), and the Housing Executive
Springhill Park, Strabane, next to the Good Vibes piece.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08564 T08565 T08566 T08567 T08568
“We salute all those who have fought, died and assisted in the fight for Irish freedom. Ar dheıs Dé go raıbh a n-anamacha. West Tyrone remembers.”
Above is a recent (2025-06) mural painted in Clady of IRA volunteers c. 1971 defending the bridge a stone’s throw outside the town, to prevent it from being blown up by the British Army. A history of the bridge, and the photograph which the mural reproduces, can be found at The Pensive Quill. The work of painting the mural and refreshing the window-boards of the building has been undertaken by the Joseph Plunkett 1916 Society Clady/Grebe (Fb).
The two monuments, to volunteers generally and Neal Lafferty (d. 1975) specifically (Fb), stand together at the junction with Cluney Gardens. There is also a memorial to James McPhelimy (d. 1988) on the other side of Urney Road, and one to Jim McGann (d. 1973) on the bridge.
Urney Road, Clady
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2026 Paddy Duffy
T08555 T08557 T08556 [T08558] T08559 T08560 T08561 T08562 [T08563]
Paddy Duffy Collection 