The first (left-most) mural of the Painting For Palestine project (Fb) reproduces a piece that once stood in a Gaza school, called The Land Is Ours, by Mohammed Alhaj, Abdullah Al Najar, Rami Al Safadi, and Abdel Hamid Fares. It shows a human figure holding a Palestinian flag that wraps around an olive tree and the Dome Of The Rock temple in Jerusalem.
February 26th:
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Ernest Walton was born in 1903 in Co. Waterford, graduated from TCD, and then worked in the Cavendish lab in Cambridge, England, and then at TCD. He and John Cockroft were together awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1932 work at Cavendish that split apart the nucleus (specifically, of a lithium atom), verifying Rutherford’s conjectures about the structure of atoms (WP). He died in Belfast in 1995.
His connection to Banbridge, which is where this FGB (ig) mural can be found on Bridge St, is that he attended kindergarten in the town (DIB).
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This is a Rob Hilken (web) piece in Linenhall Street, Banbridge, and in connection with the location and the linen tradition of Banbridge, the piece features a chrysanthemum pattern (visible at Lisburn Museum) from one of the 1,600 glass plates found at the Ewart-Liddell weaving factory in Donacloney when it was dismantled in 2007 (Lisburn Museum), as well as holes from a Jacquard loom punch-card (Science & Industry Museum). (ig)
Commissioned by Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council (web), with support from Daisy Chain (web).
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“Samhaın, when the veil [between the physical and spiritual worlds] is at its weakest”. Some spooky Halloween-themed street art by FA [Foreign Assassins] crew in Tullycarnet.
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Here are some older pieces still rolling in Dundonald: Above, a pandemic-era mural with Superman as a doctor: “A big thank you to all the heroes of the NHS”; below, two small stencils of a young girl contemplating a pigeon and a flower.
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Here is a gallery of images from the Blaze FX art in the (western) Tullycarnet subway, which promotes various community organisations, including TagIt (Fb), Tullycarnet flute band (Fb), Tullycarnet Community Football Club, Tullycarnet Family Project, Helping Hands Autism Support Group.
The cartoon cats from Top Cat are featured – the eponymous Top Cat is featured above. Fancy Fancy is just inside the mouth of the tunnel – see this 2013 image for a close-up.
For a later survey of community groups in the area, see Tullycarnet Together.
Just on the north side of the subway: Samhain.
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“Crucified” and “risen” in a pair on the back of Dundonald Methodist Church in Inchmarnoch Drive.
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Here, side by side, are a UDA East Belfast Brigade, 5th battalion board, and a jaunty “Tullycarnet Youth” piece of aerosol art.
Facing the library in Granton Park, Tullycarnet.
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‘Solidarity today, solidarity everyday [every day]”. International politics makes a rare appearance in the city centre: support for the Palesitinians in Gaza – now under attack from Israeli forces for 116 days (Al Jazeera) takes the place of pieces by Conor McClure and All The Doodz.
See also: Ukraine Has Suffered Enough.
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This entry chronicles (in reverse order/from latest to earliest) the painting of one of Saïd Hassan’s (ig) contributions to the Painting For Palestine (Fb) project that is currently transforming the International Wall on Divis Street in west Belfast. The piece appears to be inspired by the mass grave in Khan Younis (in the Gaza Strip) in which more than 100 corpses were buried in November (Al Jazeera video | Reuters gallery).
Hassan’s instagram post of his original artwork cites a few lines from Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani (WP): “Let’s plant them as our martyrs in the womb of this soil thickened with bleeding … there is always room in the ground for another martyr.”
January 26th:
January 24th:
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