A lark (?) breaks down the bars and barbed wire of a prison.
Donore Court, New Lodge, north Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01242
Free The POWs
Belfast north
Saoırse
Long Kesh viewed through a keyhole, with green ribbons from the campaign to free republican prisoners. “The mural was donated by New Lodge RAC [Relatives Action Committee]”.
(Here is the same mural in 1997.)
Donore Court, Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01241
The Heroes Of 1916
Cú Chulaınn and an Easter Rising volunteer form “a tribute to the heroes of 1916”: “We … declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.” (From the Proclamation.)
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01240
An tOcras Mór
Four people in rags search for potatoes in a field, with abandoned houses in the background. A mural commemorating the Great Hunger, based on images from the reports of London Illustrated, on the New Lodge Road.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01239
Craıc Agus Ceol
Irish dancing to fiddle and bodhrán: Féıle Phobaıl an Lóıste Úır (New Lodge People’s Festival). With a tricolour border and green ribbons for the release of POWs.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1995 Peter Moloney
M01238
Tiger’s Bay First Flute
Here are two Tiger’s Bay First Flute murals in Edlingham Street, north Belfast, one with flute and one with drum, both in the form of tigers.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01035 M01038
Rangers
A Rangers player (possibly Ally McCoist, from the graffiti) joins a series of cartoon characters in Edlingham Street, Tiger’s Bay, north Belafst.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01036
Bacon & Baird
Tiger’s Bay First Flute mural with UDA crest and scrolls to “M[ark?] Bacon” (UDA, a captain of the flute band, killed by IRA stabbing in July 1986 at age 26 – one | two | three) and “R Baird”.
“Edlingham Street” is given, but probably at the bottom (i.e. just above N Queen Street) of U Canning Street or Mervue Street.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01035
Ulster Says No! To The Politicians
“Ulster Says No!” modified with “To The Politic[i]ans”. Below is a UDA/LPA/UFF emblem (with uzi) on the corner of Hogarth Street, Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast.
“Quis separabit”
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01033 M01034
UFF
“UFF” in large letters over the top of “Liverpool”.
Ruth Street, north Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01032
