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Kneecap’s Fine Art

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Kneecap’s new album Fine Art was released on June 14th on Heavenly Recordings. (The cover of the new album is included in the recent update to the mural on Madden’s bar – see Sásta A Bheıth Anseo.)

Their film, also called Kneecap, had its Belfast premiere in the Kennedy Centre, west Belfast, on Tuesday and has been on general release since Thursday (RTÉ | BBC).

The band yesterday (Friday August 9th) launched a third mural in Hawthorn Street/Sráıd Na Sceıthe, (joining Incendiary Device and England Get Out Of Ireland,) which blows up the sticker seen on the street-sign (below; and previously in Land Grab) into a mural: Saoırse don Phalaıstín [Freedom for Palestine]. The launch was moved to an earlier time (2:30 p.m.) so that it would not conflict with the anti-racism rally in the city centre (BelTel).

The mural had previously been a sticker (see the street sign, above) and flyer – this one is from Waterford Street, in April

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Gaels Against Genocide

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“Seasann Léana An Dúın leıs An Phalaıstín [Lenadoon stands with Palestine]”. Gaels Against Genocide – “a collective of people from the Irish language, sporting & cultural communities” (Xitter) – was formed in January (Saffron Gael) and organised rallies in Belfast city centre in February (Pensive Quill | Belfast Media video on YouTube) and in June (BBC | Belfast Media gallery | Irish News).

Lenadoon Avenue, west Belfast

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Honour And Respect His Last Request

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“Honour and respect his last request. Bring him home. Roger Casement, executed 3rd August 1916 9.00AM Pentonville Prison, London. Roger Casement Commemoration & Re-Interment Association.”

Casement’s preferred resting-place was Murlough Bay, as explained in the original entry for the painting on the other side of the gates showing Casement in front of Murlough Bay, included again below but here with a wreath of yellow flowers.

This new (printed) board is on the left-hand side of the gates of the park named in Casement’s honour. Here is the background photo of the GPO at the top of the board; the photograph at the bottom is from NLI (available on Flickr).

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The Man Who Saved Barcelona

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The Don Patricio/Patrick O’Connell mural at the bottom of the Whiterock Road has been refreshed for this year’s Féıle. The major change is in the middle of the mural, where Lionel Messi – who went to Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 and then to Inter Miami in 2023 – has been replaced by current stars Aitana Bonmatí and Lamine Yamal. (A modern soccer-ball replaces the leather ball of the original mural, patches have been added to O’Connell’s jacket, and the FAI trophy and the large Cup Winner’s medal has been removed to make room for Bonmatí.) The new mural was relaunched on August 2nd with an address by the director of the FC Barcelona museum at Camp Nou (Belfast Media).

For more – on O’Connell’s career as a player and manager, the emblems in the stands, and the headlines on the newspaper – see Don Patricio.

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Lucky Me, Lucky You

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This piece of street art by Zippy (web) was originally intended for Hit The North 2024 but she didn’t find time to paint it until later, as she was busy organising the event itself. At the time, the green frame was painted but then the gates were covered with yellow stickers – see All This Scratching Is Making Me Itch.

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Everlasting

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Street and ceramic artist Malarko (ig | profile) replaced his own previous art on this wall on the side of the Sunflower bar (from 2013) – see No Topless Bathing.

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Quoth The Raven, “Evermore”

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A new board was unveiled on July 1st 2024, by the 1st Raven Somme Society and The Loyal (Fb) at the Raven social club (Fb), putting together the Ulster Tower (see e.g. A Thought Is Not A Lot), JP Beadle’s painting of the 36th going ‘over the top’ (see The Trenches Have Vanished Under The Ploughs) and Wilfrid Spender’s famous quote about the first day of the Battle Of The Somme (see I Would Rather Be An Ulsterman).

This board takes the place of the King Charles board (seen previously in Long Live The King), which has been moved to the other side of Castlereagh Street and joined by the board that it replaced, to Queen Elizabeth (both on top of some old (2012) panels depicting east Belfast of yesteryear – see Shipyard Workers).