Dundonald – Paddy Duffy Collection

Billy Anderson

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“William Anderson Garden Of Remembrance – In memory of Billy Anderson”. Billy “The Brick” Anderson was a member of the Pride Of Ballybeen flute band (Fb) – there is a small version of the band’s emblem above the black plaque in the image above.

“Cuidich ‘n Righ” [help the king] is the motto of the Highlanders. The emblem also appears on the band’s mural at the top of the estate (and below the Buster Keenan mural in east Belfast).

Millar’s Lane, on the old bonfire site at the bottom of Ballybeen estate, Dundonald

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Iceman And Binman

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Writing and graffiti-art by WEB (ig) and TORS of the FA (Foreign Assassins) krew at the Tullycarnet subway, Dundonald.

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Cuidich’N Righ

2025-01-012025-01-22Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The festive atmosphere depicted along the bottom of the Pride Of Ballybeen flute band’s new mural, with people clapping and waving and doing cartwheels as the parade passes by, is in contrast with the regimental emblems in the upper part of the mural: we see (on the left-hand side; first close-up below) the Highlanders (“Cuidich’n Righ” is Scots Gaelic for “Help the king”) and the Irish Guards (motto “quis separabit”; 1783 is the year the Order Of St Patrick was created), and (right-hand side, second close-up below), the Royal Irish Regiment and the Logistics Corp (motto “Honi soit qui mal y pense“). These are perhaps regiments in which band-members serve or have served; the band does not have a (public) internet presence.

For the previous mural, see Pride Of Ballybeen.

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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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When The Veil Is At Its Weakest

2024-02-092024-11-08Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Samhaın, when the veil [between the physical and spiritual worlds] is at its weakest”. Some spooky Halloween-themed street art by FA [Foreign Assassins] crew in Tullycarnet.

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Tullycarnet Family Project

2024-02-092024-11-02Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a gallery of images from the Blaze FX art in the (western) Tullycarnet subway, which promotes various community organisations, including TagIt (Fb), Tullycarnet flute band (Fb), Tullycarnet Community Football Club, Tullycarnet Family Project, Helping Hands Autism Support Group.

The cartoon cats from Top Cat are featured – the eponymous Top Cat is featured above. Fancy Fancy is just inside the mouth of the tunnel – see this 2013 image for a close-up.

For a later survey of community groups in the area, see Tullycarnet Together.

Just on the north side of the subway: Samhain.

Tullycarnet Together

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These four boards are on the side of the Hanwood Centre (web) in Kinross way, referencing various local social groups: Helping Hands [Autism Support], Cloud 9 [youth group], Barnardo’s NI (Fb), Links Women’s Project (Fb), TASC, TABC (Fb), TCFC (ig)