A Paratroop flag joins a UDU/UDA flag and an Ulster Banner on a lamp-post in Donegall Road, Belfast.
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Defence Union
Area Affiliation
Political Policing
“PSNI-MI5 = political policing” – a message from Gael Force Art (Fb) on Sliabh Dubh/Black Mountain (Visual History) above west Belfast.
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Titanic Workers
Titanic workers by Ed Reynolds, whose site contains images of him at work on the piece (steadyhanded.com).
Combermere Street, south Belfast.
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Slimfast Champion
Commentary on the hunger strike of IRA volunteers Bobby Sands in 1981, in south Belfast: “Slimfast champion”, “Mr Sands was a convic[t]ed criminal – he chose to take his own life.”
Dorchester Street (x2) and Daphne Street, off Donegall Road, Belfast
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The Laughter Of Our Children
“Bogside” in the style of an illuminated manuscripts and Bobby Sands’s “[Our revenge will be] The laughter of our children” on a painted banner.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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Pat Finucane
“Human rights activist Pat Finucane 1949-1989 targeted by British establishment, executed by unionist death squads. “……If you don’t defend human rights lawyers who will defend human rights?-Rosemary Nelson”
This printed board replaces a similar painted board.
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No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs, No POWs
“No blacks, no Irish, no dogs, no POWs – sponsored by SDLP/TUV [Traditional Unionist Voice]”. The reference of this board in Turf Lodge is a June motion in the NI Assembly to bar anyone convicted of a serious offence from serving as a ministerial adviser (the trigger case being Mary McArdle). Passage of the bill was secured with SDLP support of the motion.
Springfield Road, Belfast
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Fleadh Cheoıl
Fleadh Cheoıl Na hÉıreann is held in the north for the first time with the 62nd fleadh being held in Derry from August 11th to 18th (BBC). Free Derry Corner is decorated with the symbols of the festival and Comhaltas and the event’s web address. Programme.
Along the bottom can be faintly seen “Culture theft ££”.
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Cumann Pobaıl Mhachaıre Botháın
These plaques are on the front of Cumann Pobaıl Mhachaıre Botháın/Marrowbone Community Association, in memory of two long-time community-workers.
“Teach Christine. Erected in memory of Christine (Bap) Beattie, a dedicated friend and community worker to all in this area.”
“Máırtın Ó Dochartaıgh 1968-2011. Is cuma mura mbím beo ach lá agus oíche amháın fad agus go mbíonn lomrá [ıomrá] ar mo chuıd eachtraí ı mo dhıadh. [It is of no matter whether I live only a single day and night so long as my endeavours gain repute after I am gone.] Máırtín will be greatly missed by his family, friends and colleagues in the youth and community organisations in the Marrowbone and across Belfast.”
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RIP Alan Ryan
“RIP Óglach Alan Ryan murdered by drug dealing scum.” For background, see this BBC article.
New Lodge flats, north Belfast
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