“Protect your future”. Words from Joni Mitchell’s song Big Yellow Taxi are used to protest basalt quarrying on Black Mountain by Whitemountain Quarrying (part of the Lagan Group). The protests were led by local resident Terry Enright. Here are a Northern Visions TV interview and a NewStatesman article.
The mural also says “Happy 50th birthday, Ballymurphy”. Both Wikipedia and Ciarán De Baróid (Ballympurphy And The Irish War p. 9) give 1947 for the birth of Ballymurphy.
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