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Eye To The Telescope

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Life Hack (Xitter) is a youth project in Creggan, Derry, based in the Ráth Mór centre on Bligh’s Lane. In addition to this long telescoping eye around the Westway Roundabout (with Peaball (ig)), its members were also involved in painting the pillars at the lower entrance to Bishop’s Field/Gort An Easpaıg – see the final image, below.

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Saoırse Don Phalaıstín

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Here is an INLA/IRSP/RSYM pro-Palestine mural from Derry (see also يومنا قادم). “PFLP” stands for “Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine” (WP). A very similar PFLP-INLA board was seen in west Belfast: Peoples United. There was PFLP graffiti in Creggan: Victory To The PFLP.

The first two are from William Street and the Bogside; the small INLA nail-up in the final image is in Creggan.

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The Birds And The Bees

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These nature scenes in the grounds of Holy Child primary, in Creggan, were painted by RAZER (ig) as part of the Graffiti On The Wall initiative.

See Visual History 11 for other pieces from the initiative.

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Though An Army Besiege Me, My Heart Will Not Fear

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In 2000, during the Second Intifada, Palestinian teenager Faris Odeh was photographed by an AP photographer in the act of throwing a stone at an Israeli tank. He was shot and killed a few days later and the image became a symbol of resistance. (A mural of the photograph was painted in Springhill: see David And Goliath.) The iconic image is updated here for Israel’s current invasion of Gaza, showing a young girl with a soft toy standing in front of a tank that is bedecked with the flags of the European Union, France, the USA, the UK, and Germany.

The F-16 jets and rubble and child with teddy-bear are the same as in the We Stand With Palestine mural in Ardoyne.

For the teddy-bears and soft toys, see Boycott Israeli Genocide.

For the Easter Rising mural, see The Undauntable Thought.

South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast.

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Humanitarian Intervention

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On March 25th, Israel declared that it would no longer work with UNRWA to deliver aid into Gaza (Reuters | Guardian). On March 28th, Foreign Minister Micheál Martin announced that Ireland plans to “intervene” in South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel, asserting that the Genocide Convention includes blocking humanitarian aid (BBC | Guardian | RTÉ).

The support for Palestine by Ireland and South Africa is illustrated here by Irish, Palestinian, and South African children standing hand-in-hand. The same type of image was also used, with younger children, in the Painting For Palestine project on the International Wall – see The International Court Of Justice, which also gives details of South Africa’s initial case against Israel.

Painted by MD in South Link, west Belfast, facing the Israeli tank in Though An Army Besiege Me, My Heart Will Not Fear.

Time Of Our Lives

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This piece shows children and young people playing and relaxing in safety, joined together in a series of cogs. It is perhaps related to the former Streetreach mural.

Pearl Street, in the Willowfield area of east Belfast.

Woodstock Rocks

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As a tribute to “the influence the local record shops had on the Belfast hip-hop and breakdancing scenes of the 80s” FGB (ig) and Katriona Designs (ig) have painted track-suited pensioners with a dual turntable setup (“Spin-A-Disc” (Technic?) and “Pensioneer” (Pioneer) brands) in Ardgowan Street at the Woodstock Road.

The documentary Bombin’, Beats And B-Boys is available on youtube. Here is an Irish Times look back at Belfast City Breakers.

See also the shelf of tapes at Portallo Street: Back On The Streets. The other new pieces in the current beautification project are: Up The Cregagh and Down The Woodstock | Up The Cregagh | Heron.

Also included below are two small pieces in Glendower Street, of a ‘Dolphin Lamp Standard’ lamp-post (such as can be seen on the Queen’s Bridge) and a fox.