Ciaran Gallagher (web) chronicled the various contests for the leadership of the Conservative party involving Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Boris Johnson. The panels originally appeared in Hill Street, outside The Friend At Hand, (e.g. Circling Sharks) but have now been moved to the courtyard of the Dark Horse, replacing the Klondyke Bar. This level of panels ends with Sweet Rockall.
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The portrait shows Chaplin dressed in the clothes of the barber but the words are spoken when he is dressed in the clothes of the other character he played in The Great Dictator (1940), Adenoid Hynkel, the Phooey Of Tomainia:
“We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.”
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Painted by Glen Molloy (ig) in Seymour Street, Belfast
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“Thank you NHS & key workers” – this is a Covid-era wall-painting in the Village, south Belfast, illustrating togetherness with a heart of interlocking jigsaw pieces and a rainbow of various colours.
Kilburn Street, replacing Women Too (whose title can still be seen in the eave above this painting), and on the other side of the Women’s Centre from Allowed To Dream, We Learn To Fly.
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This is an early (2020) Covid-era mural on the side of Ciggy Vapes expressing thanks “from all our management & staff” to workers in the NHS. The child in the image is playing with a doll of a nurse rather than the Batman doll in the basket.
Ribble Street, east Belfast
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“H2O Project” mural on the public toilets in Cushendall, just below High Street. “Artwork by Glens Youth Club [Fb]”
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This mural protests Orange marches along “traditional routes” in Drumcree (Portadown) and Lower Ormeau (Belfast). It’s been roughly 25 years since the tension over these marches was at its height, but the scars have yet to heal. The DUP made a motion in the House Of Commons to lift the ban on the Drumcree parade this year (News Letter | Irish Times | BBC).
This long-standing mural was perhaps touched up in 2021. Compare to the 2010 post.
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“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) 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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