“Bangor Ex-Services Club have dedicated this “area” to the Peninsula Group for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. 26th August 2022.” With a large poppy on the adjacent wall.
Holborn Square, Bangor
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Or artists – as there are plenty of them. This piece is by Danni Simpson (ig) on the shutters of Bradbury Art Store in Callender Street, Belfast.
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“For every dark night there’s a brighter day.” This mural on the pavilion in Orangefield Park encourages people –young men in particular – to take care of their mental health, and serves as a memorial to Adam “Woodzy” Woods, who died last (2022) May of an overdose (BBC). Skank FM has images of the launch (instagram). With assistance by 5th Element (ig).
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The purpose of the “do not use” graffiti in Braemar Street (seen in Remember The Hunger Strike) has at long last been made evident with this new Belfast antifa (Fb | tw) stencil.
Above them is a Saoradh Easter Rising commemoration board (which was previously Don’t Play England’s Game).
From 2017: a much simpler stencil in Winetavern St.
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“Victory to the workers”. Costello House is home to the IRSP (tw) “Advice Hub” with representative Dan Murphy (Mid Falls & Springfield) and Michael Kelly (Lower Falls). Murphy (in Black Mountain) received 2.7% and Kelly (in Court) 3.2% of first-preference votes in the recent local elections (WP).
Falls Road, west Belfast.
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“”It is not our differences that divide us. It is out inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.” – Audre Lorde”, “Peace & reconciliation”.
This does not seem to be an authentic Audre Lorde quote but an extrapolation of some lines from the essay “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, where she writes, “It is not our differences which separate women, but our reluctance to recognize those differences and to deal effectively with the distortions which have resulted from the ignoring and misnaming of those differences.” (p. 122 in Sister Outsider).
Painted in 2016 by students from Susquehanna University in Bread Street, Divis. “The river and bridge represent a Lutheran hymn about the peace of mind a river provides and the bridge connecting people” (Spaces4Learning). In 2017, students from the same university painted the gates on the “peace” line – see Ambassadors For Peace.
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The Derry 2021 street art festival – rebranded as Roots Street Art – was affected by Covid lockdowns (Derry Journal) but several pieces were painted, including this one by the Glöbel Bros (Conzo Throb and Ciaran Glöbel, referring to emigration and economic migration between Dún Na nGall [Donegal], Doire [Derry], and Glaschú [Glasgow].
Sackville Street, Derry.
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“A champion shows who he is by what he does when he’s tested. When he gets up and says “I can still do it”, he’s “a champion.” In Irish mythology, the Tuatha invade Ireland and battle the Fır Bolg. They are successful but their king Nuadha loses his arm and with it his kingship of the Tuatha. He had it replaced with an arm made of silver and regained his position. He is used here as an inspiration for those struggling with mental health, who are encouraged to call Lifeline or Aware.
(A history of Nuadha in murals is included in the Visual History page on Jim Fitzpatrick.)
The modern-day hero accompanying Nuadha is boxer James “The Assassin” Tennyson, current Irish super-featherweight champion. There are also four mental health boards (shown below) around the corner from Urban Villages Colin Safer Streets Initiative with messages such as “Think, Talk, Feel – Positive”, “Everything that you are is enough”, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow”,
Laurelglen Pharmacy, on the Stewartstown Road.
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Memorial boards to Queen Elizabeth have been added to the ‘our community transformation’ board and community garden in Old Warren.
An image of the old “You are now entering loyalist Old Warren” display that is shown in the ‘before’ side of the board above is included below. On the ‘after’ side are the youth centre, the new houses at the top of Drumbeg Drive, and the Lagan View enterprise centre. For a brief history of the area, see Through Your Eyes.
The previous board on this wall – a UDA B Company board – can be seen in C02674 and its predecessor in M05916.
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“Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jews [sic]. It is only human. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all.” From part 6 of Connolly’s Labour, Nationality And Religion in 1910.
The mural is in Beechview Park, across the street from Áras Uí Chonghaile/James Connolly Visitor Centre.
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