Pride Of Ardoyne

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The Pride Of Ardoyne flute band memorial site was overhauled in November (2023). The silhouetted bandsmen (seen in Pride Of Ardoyne) are gone and the cross and wooden plaque at the top (see Billy Hanna) have been joined by two large boards, naming “J. Bailey, W. Hanna, S. Rockett, B. McClure” and, (on the drum) “Charlie Dunn (1957-2021)”, along with 20 small plaques of these five plus 15 more who are each an “absent member”, “absent friend”, and “loyal supporter”.

For Bailey, see On This Day. For Rockett, see Essence And Space. For McClure, see UPI. For Dunn, see the band’s Fb Page.

2025-10 Update: the main board was damaged when a wreath was set alight – Belfast Live.

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Tullycarnet Family Project

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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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Tullycarnet Together

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These four boards are on the side of the Hanwood Centre (web) in Kinross way, referencing various local social groups: Helping Hands [Autism Support], Cloud 9 [youth group], Barnardo’s NI (Fb), Links Women’s Project (Fb), TASC, TABC (Fb), TCFC (ig)

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Let Your Hopes Bloom As The Cactus Blooms

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Heba Zagout (ig) was a Palestinian artist and teacher who painted Palestinian women and scenes from everyday life, including one from 2022 of holiday fireworks over a Bethlehem skyline that includes both churches and mosques. (You can see the original acrylic on the Painting For Palestine facebook page). The painting has now been reproduced as a mural on the International Wall in CNR west Belfast. She and two of her children, Adam and Mahmoud, were killed in October in an Israeli air strike on Gaza. (Middle East Eye | Guardian)

The next mural (to the right) can be seen in Broken Family.

The image above is from February 4th. Below are in-progress shots in reverse-chronological order.

January 28th:

January 26th:

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Solidarity

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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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