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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Lasair Dhearg (“lasairdhearg.com/join“) stencil featuring James Connolly in Lenadoon Avenue, west Belfast.
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“Down the Woodstock” and “Up the Cregagh”. The two roads run into each other, heading north-south between Albert Bridge and Lisnabreeny in east Belfast. The Woodstock Road shops are getting a number of new streetart pieces thanks to a consortium of local businesses, including the two shown here.
The racing trap is by Visual Waste (ig) ((with support from Decowell Restoration (web), Bethany Fruit (web) and Astrl Fibres (ig)) in Willowfield Gardens and the (painted) signage by unknown artists in Oberon Street.
There is already a large mural reading “Up The Cregagh” on the road.
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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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“Welcome to Turf Lodge” — “Fáılte go dtí Lóıste Na Móna”. Turf Lodge was one of a number of estates built in the foothills of Black Mountain — including Westrock, Springhill, Ballymurphy, New Barnsley, and Dermot Hill — meant to house an underserved Catholic population and displaced families from other areas of Belfast.
The estate was built over a number of years but most people moved in between 1960 and 1962. (Northern Visions made a documentary about the history and people of the Turf Lodge estate that includes descriptions of the various ways in which the estate was left unfinished even as people took up residence.)
For the sixtieth anniversary, the electrical boxes outside John Paul II (formerly St Aidan’s) were stencilled (above and immediately below). This year (2023), more boxes have been painted, with images of gaelic games (see Gort Na Móna), bluebells (see Féıle Na gCloıgíní Gorma), and the silver fáınne on red background (see #AchtAnoıs).
See also: Klaus Fröhlich has a gallery of photos of the flats in the middle of the estate in great disrepair in 1979 (at BAP).
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This is a gallery of the new (2023) Hit The North pieces on Union Street north of Kent Street. There is a separate post for the new pieces on Union Street south of Kent Street.
From north to south (top to bottom in this post) the works are by:
Andrey Palval (ig)
Chelsea Frew (ig)
Nean (ig)
NOYS (ig)
Rob Hilken (ig)
RAZER (ig).
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Here is a gallery of the new pieces from Hit The North 2023 on the south side of Kent Street (there is a separate post for the north side and there is a separate post for Kent Street above Union Street).
From left to right (top to bottom in this post), the art is by:
Friz (ig)
Annatomix (ig)
Cha Cha (ig)
CYD Noble (ig)
Ali-P (ig)
Kerrie Hannah (ig)
Saul Art (ig)
MWAK (ig)
Carly Wright (ig) + Sam McAleese (ig)
Kilian (ig)
Claire Prouvost (ig)
Holly Peirera (ig)
Myfanwynia (ig)
Leo Boyd (ig)
Novice (ig)
Codo (ig)
Danni Simpson (ig)
Chroma Chameleons (ig) + Sweetheart Streetart (ig)
FGB (ig)
HM Constance (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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The stencil is in Mount Vernon, which is also home to a series of metalworks – see They Sleep Beyond Ulster’s Foam. That title, as well as the title of this entry, comes from Binyon’s poem For The Fallen, the fourth stanza of which is often cited in memorial for the dead of the Great War: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them.”
The stencil is perhaps not only a memorial to the dead of WWI – the planes appear to be WWII models such as the Hurricane or Spitfire (as on the box below, and in A Miracle of Deliverance); most WWI planes were biplanes.
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