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The Lion Wears The Crown
This Ballee Flute Band mural (formerly for the Ballee Blues And Royals) shows the ‘lion and the unicorn’ from the UK coat of arms. The lion (England) wears a crown but the unicorn (Scotland) does not, since, as the nursery rhyme has it, “the lion beat the unicorn all around the town” (WP).
However, in place of the Royal Standard’s crest and “honi soit qui mal y pense” and “Dieu et mon droit” inscriptions, we find the Bible, “Drumtara”, and “In God we trust”.
Behind are the Union Flag and the flags of the Apprentice Boys and the Orange Order.
Ballee Way, Ballymena
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We Will Remember Them
This mural in Carrick has a 3D element: 312 wood poppies were hand-painted and attached to the wall, one for each local man who did not return. By artist Gary Orr.
North Street, Carrickfergus
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UFF Carrickfergus
This is an update to the 2014 entry, when the mural was new. Also included (below) is a piece of graffiti behind Castlemara Stores: “All taigs out”.
Castlemara Drive, Carrickfergus
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If You Remove The English Army Tomorrow
A line from James Connolly’s 1897 piece “Socialism And Nationalism” is adapted by the IRSP for the current post-partition situation: “England will still rule you, she would rule you through her bankers, landlords and Stormont”.
Connolly’s original thought is that – even in a self-governing republic – nationalism is not enough to establish an authentically Irish state: “If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
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The Evolution Of Our Revolution
A history of nationalism/republicanism from left to right: a pair of Easter lilies, four generations of rifles, and then a switch to a ballot paper with a check in favour of “unity” and a road named “Unity Way”: “From bullet to ballot: the evolution of our revolution. 1916 – 2016”
The mural was painted by Con on the north side of Hugo Street – the south side remains exclusively éırígí.
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Mná Na hÉıreann
Érıu/Éıre of the Tuatha Dé Danann, queen of Ireland, (as depicted by Richard J King) is at the centre of various representations of republican women.
Along the top are Ann Devlin, Betsy Gray, Mary Ann McCracken, Countess Markievicz, Nora Connolly?, and Winifred Carney. Suffragettes, the modern IRA, and Cumman Na mBan are depicted, as are Máıre Drumm at the Falls Curfew, Tom McElwee’s sisters carrying his coffin, and Molly Childers and Mary Spring Rice running guns on the Asgard. There is also an unusual ‘four provinces’ in the corners.
The wide shot (below) shows a 1916 centenary (“céad blıaın”) board: “Ag fíorú na poblachta”.
Rockmount Street, above the James Connolly trade-unions mural
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Stop Wars, Not People
The bombs of the US, NATO, and the EU drive fleeing refugees into a circle of barbed wire in this new mural on Beechmount Avenue: “Capitalism & imperialism created refugees! Syria • Iraq • Afghanistan • Libya … Stop wars, not people!!!” This WP page gives facts and figures relating to the wave of migration to Europe in 2015.
Beechmount Avenue/Ascaill Ard Na bhFeá, west Belfast
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In Defence Of The Nation
This is a more expansive version of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement (web) stencil seen in 2015 on the International Wall, Divis Street (Visual History), in 2015. There is no barbed wire flags in this one and no flags; instead, two volunteers in silhouette pay their respects.
Beechmount Avenue/Ascaill Ard Na bhFeá, west Belfast
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Viva Palestine
“Tıocfaıdh ár lá”, “يومنا قادم” [yeomna qadm, our day is coming] (and below, “Saoırse” and “حرية” [freedom].
The figure at the centre of the mural, with the PFLP emblem, is sky-jacker Leila Khaled – for background on her see the same stencil of her in Hugo Street.
Seen previously in better condition in 2015. AMCOMRI St (AMerican COMmittee [for] Relief [in] Ireland), Beechmount, west Belfast
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Honour Ireland’s Dead
Gael Force Art commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising with a massive lily on Slıabh Dubh (Visual History).
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