painted board – Page 11 – Paddy Duffy Collection

Classics Of The Silver Screen

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This is a 3-D/plane-breaking board/collage from the courtyard of the Duke Of York, featuring King Kong on the Empire State building (1933), Atlas (Metropolis 1927), a zombie (also from Metropolis?), riot police controlled by a puppet-master, Hokusai’s Great Wave Of Kanagawa 1830, WWI biplanes, a steamer/cruise-ship with searchlight and something that looks like the Giant’s causeway?? The car with L plates is from Death Proof.

Artists Ciaran Gallagher and Kathryn Bannister have a gallery of pictures of the piece being constructed and installed. The piece, they say, is inspired by “classics of the silver screen” and was part of Culture Night 2011.

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New Life

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Barrow Square, in Sailortown between Clarendon dock and the Rotterdam bar, is named not for the carts used to unload and move goods along the docks, but for the Barrow Steam Navigation Company, which had a line of travel going between Belfast, Douglas (Isle Of Man), and Barrow (Cumbria, England), the peak of which appears to have been the 1890s (PaddleSteamers).

The mural, which was painted in 2004, features the “new life” coming to the broader docks area, though Sailortown itself has yet to see much investment. A Sailortown Regeneration Group (web) was formed in response to the closure of St Joseph’s in 2001. Both the Rotterdam and Pat’s are slated for demolition (BBC).

Clarendon Street, Sailortown, north Belfast

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Liggett & Brady

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IRA volunteer Francis Liggett was shot by the British Army in January 1973 as he attempted to rob the Royal. One of the images of Gerry Adams in paramilitary beret comes from Liggett’s funeral.

Paddy Brady was a Sınn Féın activist shot in 1984 at his work by the UFF (Sutton). Both were from the St James’s area of west Belfast. Their portraits are on either side of Éıre personified. They are also included in the ‘Roll of Honour’ in the memorial garden below them. The verses are from Bobby Sands’s poem Weeping Winds.

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Imagine

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Here is a gallery of new murals on the International Wall in Divis Street and Northumberland Street – compare to 2010. The ‘Imagine’ piece is between the security gates.

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Cumann Spóırt An Phobaıl

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This mural (partly on boards, partly on the wall) celebrates 125 years of the GAA, particularly local teams Cumman [sic] Spóırt An Phobaıl, Cardinal O’Donnell’s, Gort Na Móna, and Cumann Naomh Eoın.

Whiterock Road, west Belfast

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Political Hostage

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This painted board in support of Marian Price (WP) was launched on May 13, 2012. Charges against Price were reinstated on September 5th (Slugger). Owen Paterson (with one “t”) was replaced in mid September (2012) as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after five months in office.

Whiterock Road, west Belfast

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Our Demands Most Moderate Are

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The sixteen-year old Sınn Féın Trade Union Dept mural has been replaced (though the plaque remains in the top right-hand corner) with another mural featuring James Connolly but with a new quote, from his 1907 poem: “Our demands most moderate are/We only want the earth.” The Irish Worker headline reads “Belfast ITGWU organiser Connolly gets 905 votes municipal elections” referring to the municipal elections of 1913 – Connolly stood in the Dock Ward (SIPTU). At Connolly’s right hand are books by James Fintan Lalor (Clearing ~~The~~ Decks), William Thompson (Labour [Labor] Rewarded) and Karl Marx.

Above the mural is a painted board celebrating “women in struggle – generations shall remember them and call them blessed.” With images of female activists including Máıre Drumm, Maıréad Farrell, and Countess Markievicz.

No Right In Ireland

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“The British government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.” (Last Statement, 1916)

“James Connolly 1868-1916 James Connolly was born in June 5th 1868. In 1810 he became organiser for the Irish Transport And General Workers Union in Belfast. In 1913 he co-founded the Irish Citizen Army. He was one of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation and commanded HQ in the GPO during the 1916 Rising. He was executed by the British on May 12th 1916.”

“Nora Connolly O’Brien 1893-1981 Nora Connolly was the 2nd daughter of James Connolly. Nora was a member of Cumann Na mBan and the Gaelic League in Belfast. She played an organisational role in the ICA in the run up to the 1916 Rising. She was a trade unionist and remained so throughout her life.”

The mural was launched on May 3rd, 2012.

For the gallery above the mural, see On The Brink Of Sectarian Disaster.

Clondara St, west Belfast

For close-ups of the upper banners and boards, see the Peter Moloney Collection.

Hunger Strikers Mosaics

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For the 30th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strike, the mosaics of the Troubles-era hunger strikers were mounted around the blanket-men board and above the Phoenix in Clowney Street; for a few years they were previously at the Falls-Beechmount corner.

Clowney Street, Beechmount, west Belfast