Jon “Ugg” Clifford died in 2011, having founded Tristar Boys FC (web) in 1974. Bull Park in Creggan has been renamed in his honour and this portrait on boards has been mounted next to the park.
(BelTel | Derry Journal)
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Jesus, I Trust In You, also known as the Divine Mercy, is associated with Sr. Maria Faustina Kowalska – see previously What We Knead | This Image Is Blessed). This mural was painted in 1991 (or before) – see M00990 for a photo from that year – and was repainted in 2018 (Derry Journal).
It is one of only two straightforwardly religious murals currently extant – the other is the Medjugorje mural in Ardoyne, Belfast, which was originally painted in 1986/1987 along with a dozen other religious murals.
(There were murals in 1981 with religious themes but aimed at supporting the hunger strikers – see the Visual History page on Sheppard’s Cú Chulaınn.) And Padre Pio was painted in Ballymurphy; a Sacred Heart statue is used to memorialise people in the Bone (and Jesus was tagged in east Belfast).
Moss Park, Galliagh, Derry
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For a second time during the summer artists from Peaball (ig) (and local youths) took to the long Lecky Road wall in the Brandywell. The July work (“Brandywell” in red and white lettering) can be seen in Believe In Your Dreams. Today’s post shows the word-cloud done in August.
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“Here” is Top Of The Hill, and “up here” refers to the elevated position of the community, 75 metres above the Foyle (topo map). You can get to TOTH by road or by sailing in a boat under a patchwork balloon. Art by Gorbals in Trench Road, Derry.
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Here’s Space Lizard by Mark Bodé and (Dave) Bonzai, part of the Release The Pressure street art festival in London-/Derry on July 25th and 26th, 2015.
Strand Road, Derry
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The Petrol Bomber was first painted by the Bogside Artists in 1994 and modified a number of times in the first few years, to change the badge to “No RUC” and to a green ribbon.
Part of The People’s Gallery (Visual History) along Lecky Road and Rossville Street in Derry’s Bogside.
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For his contribution to the ‘Art And The Great Hunger’ exhibition in 2019, OMIN (ig | web) drew inspiration from the battering rams used to evict people from their homes – for a photograph see History Today – and the Gabriel Rosenstock poem “Dóıbh Sıúd A Dúnmharaíodh 1845-1850” [To The Murdered Of 1845-1850], which ends “A réaltaí, féachaıg’ anuas/Go dtí nach mbeıdh sa ghrıan/Ach abhac dubh” [Stars, look down/Until the sun is nothing/But a black dwarf] (ig).
With support from UV Arts. The van is part of the piece.
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“A free Ireland will control its own destiny from the plough to the stars.” So James Connolly is said to have explained the significance of “the plough in the stars” (Ursa Major) as a symbol of Irish revolutionary socialism. (Though no source is given for the remark. See From The Plough To The Stars for more.)
Connolly and Seamus Costello, heroes of the IRSP (web) are painted on James Connolly house in Chamberlain Street, Derry, which is also home to Teach Na Fáılte, the Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners group.
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The Dome Of The Rock with its golden dome and octagonal walls (WP) provides a background to Palestinian protesters in this board expressing solidarity with Palestine (seen previously in 2021-11). Éıstıgí (Fb) is the youth division of Saoradh (web), and IRPWA (tw) is its prisoner-of-war organisation.
This is a printed board but even so the artwork is in a different style to what has been previously seen, with the two characters drawn in a cartoon/animation style.
Westland Street, Bogside, Derry
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