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Close The Gate

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“Safety over shortcut – close the gate”: the Columbia Street gate is closed from 8:45 p.m. to 7:15 a.m., and the Flax Street gate on the other side of the Crumlin Road is closed from 9:30 to 6:30 (DoJ). The opening of both streets began in 2021 and 2022 (Irish News and Belfast Live | Belfast Media) but there has recently been aggro between children and youths from the two communities (CNR Ardoyne, PUL Woodvale) in the car-park of the Hillview shopping centre and the gate will close at 5 p.m. for the foreseeable future (BelTel via PressReader).

Columbia Street, west Belfast

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Ulster’s Conflict

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“In proud [and] loving memory of our fallen comrades during Ulster’s conflict. ‘Some gave all, all gave some.’ South Belfast Brigade.” According to Sutton, 91 UDA members died during the Troubles (CAIN).

The text on the side-wall reads, “Death is not an honour but a sacrifice and those who gave that sacrifice are remembered by those that followed. Quis separabit.”

Replacing the mural of a UDA barricade.

Rockview Street, Village, south Belfast.

September 1st:

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Tullycarnet Flute Band

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This post updates an entry from January last year (2023) (Remembered As Of Yesterday) which showed the vandalised mural to the Tullycarnet flute band. It went for at least a year without being repaired but has now been repainted with a new central image showing instruments in three panels.

Melfort Drive/Lochinver Drive, Tullycarnet, Dundonald.

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Doubt Thou The Stars Are Fire

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Here is a selection of Shakespearean quotations on the topic of love on the driveway walls of a house on the Ballyclare Road in Glengormley:

“William Shakespeare – 1565-1616 Aged 52 – 38 plays, 154 sonnets”

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“Hear my soul speak of the very instant that I saw you, did/My heart fly at your service” [The Tempest 3.1]

“Tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?” [Much Ado About Nothing 5.2]

“Parting is such sweet sorrow” [Romeo & Juliet 2.2]

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you” [The Tempest 3.1]

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” [Sonnet 18]

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“Doubt thou the stars are fire/Doubt that the sun doth move/Doubt truth to be a liar/But never doubt I love” [Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2]

“When I saw you/I fell in love./And you smiled/because you knew” [from Arrigo Boito’s libretto to Verdi’s Falstaff. In Italian: “Come ti vidi/M’innamorai./E tu sorridi/Perchè lo sai”]

“See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand/O that I were a glove upon that hand/That I might touch that cheek.” [Romeo & Juliet 2.2]

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The Auld Meetin’-Hoose Green

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The Auld Meetin’-Hoose Green was an 1898 collection of tales from Ballyclare and surroundings as retold by by Archibald McIlroy, who grew up in the area before moving to Belfast, Drumbo, and Canada. McIlroy died travelling on the Lusitania, when it was hit by a German submarine in 1915 (Ulster Biography | Ulster Biography). The stories have been brought to life in a podcast.

This new street art is by Zippy (ig) in Main Street, Ballyclare.

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The Going Is Good

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Hazelbank (House) was blown up by the IRA in the 1970s (The Burn) and Macedon (House) was demolished after being closed in 1981 – their grounds became Hazelbank Park (History Hub Fb). The towers on the promenade by the shore provide a backdrop for this Lidia Cao (ig) street art on the Shore Road.

With Daisy Chain (web) and A&N borough council (web).

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Donegall Road Memorial Garden

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This entry covers two steps in the development of the WWI memorial garden on Donegall Road at Barrington Gardens.

Previously, there were two boards on the gable wall (see The Road To The Somme), of the Covenant signing and soldiers in the trenches of WWI (a copy of a Carol Graham painting).

The images below (from November, 2023) show the latter board absent as the brick walls are being built and a roll of honour to locals who lost their lives being installed.

The images in the top half of the entry (from October 2024) show the gable and side-wall painted blue, with a large board showing the Ulster Memorial Tower in Thiepval, below a red hand, and (on the side-wall) the crests of the YCV, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and the Royal Irish Rifles.

November, 2023:

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I Here Present Unto You Your Undoubted King

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The tribute to the new UK monarch King Charles III at the northeastern corner of Tiger’s Bay has been completed, with Ulster Banner and Union Flag on either side of a circular board showing a crown with the flowers of the “four nations” – thistle, shamrock, daffodil, and rose – both inside (in blue) and out (in red).

There is another piece using the same central board inside the estate – see I Will Plant Them.

The title of this entry comes from Charles’s coronation service, on May 6th, 2023 (pdf).

For ‘Loyalist Tiger’s Bay’ on the front wall, see the Stop The Boats; for the Orange Order symbols on the side wall (in the final image) – including the crown and Bible in the apex of the main wall – see Your Kingdom Will Endure Forever.

Limestone Road, north Belfast

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