Respect Our Community

“Fáılte” [Welcome] to Moyard. The trend in painting electrical boxes (see the Visual History page) has been taken up in west Belfast, though many of the pieces are not by street-artists, as they all are in other areas of the city.

Here are three painted boxes from Springfield Park along with an additional box (the ‘donate’ hearts – see X11524) on the other side of the Springfield Road in Divismore Way, which join those seen in Bóthar Chluanaí, Gaırdín Na hÉıreann, and Perennials.

See also: St Agnes | Wildstroke | Gort Na Móna Abú | Pobal ⁊ Óıge | Lóıste Na Móna | Ag Croí An Phobaıl | Gort Na Móna | Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants | Send In The Clowns | St Agnes Abú | From The Plough To The Stars | Humanitarian Intervention | Lily Of The Rift Valley | Free Palestine.

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Lily Of The Rift Valley

A pair of wooden lilies – symbol of the 1916 Easter Rising – are painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag and are placed below Palestinian flags on the Greater Ballymurphy memorial garden. (For the the names on the plaque, see the Peter Moloney Collection.)

The electrical boxes (below) are from the community mural at the bottom of Springhill. The imagery on the second one is by Emmalene Blake – see Seas Leıs An Phalaıstín.

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Respect

“Service workers – Community – Environment – Diversity”. The “#GoodForNothing” campaign, launched in 2015 (youtube), aimed to change common perceptions of young people by highlighting their volunteer work.

The piece is by emic (web) working with pupils from Wheatfield Primary school (Alternatives).

Glenbryn Gardens, north Belfast

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Pobal ⁊ Óıge

Here are five images of electrical boxes along the Whiterock Road in west Belfast, featuring various GAA and youth organisations: (from top to bottom) O’Donnell’s GAC (Fb), Glór Na Móna – Pobal Óıge (web), Corpus Christi Youth Centre (Fb), Naomh Eoın CLG (web)

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The Green And Lovely Lakes

Killeshandra, County Cavan, is located near the Lough Oughter system of lakes, which is home to a wide variety of fish, including the roach, tench, perch, bream, and pike (Island View Cavan pdf) featured in this Rob Hilken (web) piece in the centre of town.

With funding from Cavan Community Council (web).

Main Street, Killeshandra

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UVF 3rd Battalion Armagh

“The Tandragee company of the Ulster Volunteer Force were formed in 1913 as part of the wider Ulster fight against Home Rule. Tandragee ‘B’ Company where [were] part of the third battalion of the County Armagh Regiment UVF with headquarters in Tandragee Castle. Upon the outbreak of the Great War many of the Tandragee Volunteers joined the 9th Service Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers of the 36th (Ulster) Division.”

The 9th battalion comprised volunteers from Armagh, Monaghan, and Cavan.

For a fuller version of the photograph, see Cyberprod.

Montague Street, Tandragee

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Irelantis

Seán Hillen’s (web) collage “The Great Pyramids of Carlingford Lough“, from his 1994-1997 series “Irelantis”, is reproduced in Newry by DMC (ig). Hillen explains the sources for the image in an instagram post.

Upper Water Street, Newry. Also included below are two electrical boxes, the first, “Hope”, presumably by Zippy (web), in Kildare Street; the squirrel is in Merchants’ Quay.

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