Belfast west – Page 8 – Peter Moloney Collection

I Have The Spirit Of Freedom

2014-08-062025-01-22Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Four deaths have been added to the memorial plaque in St James’s Road, west Belfast, which commemorates locals from the area who died at the hands of the police and army.

The plaque dates back to (at least) 1986, and originally named Rooney (civilian), Liggett (IRA), Waterson, McDonald (civilian), McGrady (civilian), Larmour (civilian), Burns (IRA), and Brady (SF).

To these have been added McAllister (civilian), Devine (civilian), O’Dwyer (civilian), and Burns (IRA).

See also: The area’s main memorial garden also includes O’Callaghan (d. 1977 IRA) and Lenaghan (d. 1991 civilian). Next to it is a mural to Liggett And Brady.

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Peter Moloney
M05786

Oppression Breeds Resistance

2014-08-052025-01-31Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Oppression breeds resistance”, in the form of Leila Khaled and an IRA gunman, and a clenched fist in the colours of the Palestinian flag. This is a new pro-Gaza mural in the middle Falls with Irish “Tıocfaıdh ár lá” [our day will come] and Arabic “يومنا قادم” [our day is coming] (and in the shields “Saoırse” and “حرية”[freedom]).

The artist is DD Walker (“Rebel Rebel”), who painted the Blood Of An Irish Rebel Che Guevara mural last (2013) October which this replaces.

McQuillan Street, Falls Road, Belfast.

Click an image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Peter Moloney
M11378 [M11379] M11380 [M11381] [M11382] [M11383] [M11384] [M11385]
2015: [M11754] [M11755] [M11756]

Donegall Pass UVF

2014-08-022024-11-23Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“South Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force 2nd battalion, A company, Donegall Pass.” The flag of England (St. George’s Cross) is in one corner and in the other is an orange star with “1912” written below, the year the Ulster Volunteers were founded. The colour-scheme is the reverse of the Orange Order’s: its flag has the purple star of the Williamites on an orange field.

Seen previously in 2005.

Pine Street, south Belfast.

Click an image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Peter Moloney
M07555

Our Day Is Coming

2014-07-302024-11-11Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The ‘Vote Tommy Doherty’ portion of this RNU mural on Northumberland Street (Visual History) has been replaced with a pro-Palestinian message – a clenched fist in the colours of Palestine between the emblems of the RNU and the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine. The Arabic reads “Our day is coming”/”Tıocfaidh ár lá”.

يومنا قادم

Click an image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Peter Moloney
M11315

Where Is The World?

2014-07-202025-12-12Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Immediate expulsion of all Israeli diplomats from Éıre”. Gazans flee ahead of smiling soldiers from homes set ablaze by a tank flying the Israeli flag. This new mural on the international wall associates the current Israeli invasion of Gaza (which the Israelis call “Operation Protective Edge“) with the US/South Vietnamese attack on the village of Trang Bang during the Vietnam war by modelling itself on Nick Út’s 1972 Pulitzer prize-winning photograph for the Associated Press of villagers fleeing a napalm bombing (the photo can be seen at Wikipedia).

The mural is on the International Wall, Divis Street, west Belfast, as are the pavement stencils. “Free Gaza” is on Northumberland Street.

Click an image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Peter Moloney
M11286 M11285 M11287 M11288

Freedom For Öcalan

2014-07-032024-10-22Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

” ‘Peace is more difficult than war. We were not scared as we resisted; we will not be scared when we make peace.’ – Abdulla[h] Öcalan, PKK (Kurdistan Worker[s’] Party), a revolutionary, a prisoner in solitary confinement since Feb 1999. Sign the petition http://www.freeocalan.org “

Öcalan was arrested in Kenya, after being shuttled around by various European countries (Italy, Russia, Greece) who did not want to extradite him but did not want to give him asylum; he was trying to get to the Hague to confront the charges of terrorism with which he was charged. He has changed from advocating violence to advocating a political solution to the Kurdish situation in Turkey. (WP)

Northumberland Street, west Belfast

Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2014 Peter Moloney
M11143

Fallen Comrades Of The INLA

2014-07-032024-10-21Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“In memory of our fallen comrades of the INLA. Paul McCann, Matt McLarnon, Danny Loughran, Gino Gallagher.” Divis flats, St. Peters, and the plough in the stars, form the background. Information about the deaths of each of the four can be found via this IRSP page.

“This mural was erected by Teach Na Fáılte, Republican Socialist Ex-Prisoners Support Group. 2014. ‘I owe my allegiance to the working class.’ Seamus Costello 1939-1977”

JFTC2

2014-07-032024-10-20Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The Craigavon Two – John-Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville – were convicted in 2012 of the 2009 murder of PSNI Constable Steven Carroll (BBC) and sentenced to 18- and 25-year minimums, respectively. The case is under review (Guardian) and a campaign for their release is under way (Fb | Twitter).

The stencilled mural above shows two pairs of arms in chains, surrounded by a border of chains; it replaces the right-hand side of Think Independently.

Hugo Street, west Belfast. The initialism was also seen on Slıabh Dubh last (2013) October.

[…] board with portraits of Marian Price and Martin Corey goes back to 2013 (and perhaps earlier than that). It…

[…] Dead We Lie – the plaque to Boyle and Somerville remains as before (it was originally mounted in 2005) but…

[…] Korean War 1950-1953, Northern Ireland 1969-2007, Falklands War 1982 (the photo on the right is of troops “yomping”), Iraq…

[…] The board was previously on the rear of Free Derry Corner. […]

[…] is a 2007? repainting of a lower Shankill mural placing Ulster Freedom Fighters/Ulster Defence Association (UFF/UDA) within the historical context […]