“Rosa Parks 1913-2005. She sat down so that we could stand up. Mother of the civil rights movement.” Parks refused to give up her seat in the “colored” section of the bus to a white passenger on December 1st, 1955. In support of her arrest, the Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott was begun.
Board in Lepper Street, Belfast, with support from Tar Isteach, Unison, and CEP.
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Madden’s Bar in Berry Street (Belfast city centre) has a traditional music session up to three nights a week. The fiddler is Art Lundy – the original photograph is by Frankie Quinn (web).
With “Fáılte ısteach” in nine other languages.
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“The people’s taxis”, meaning the people of nationalist west Belfast, as is clear from the imagery surrounding the WBTA terminal entrance: Fionn eating the salmon of knowledge (while standing on the Giant’s Causeway), The Limerick Piper (transposed to Belfast’s Cave Hill) by John Patrick Haverty (1794-1854) (also reproduced in this Ardoyne mural), and a copy of Jim Fitzpatrick’s Sadb.
King Street/Francis Street, Belfast
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Republican graffiti in Christian Place, next to the INLA plaque at the junction with Albert Street, Belfast.
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“In memory of Father Hugh Mullan shot dad 9th August 1971 [Ballymurphy Massacre]and Father Noel Fitzpatrick shot dead 9th July 1972 [Springhill-Westrock Massacre] while ministering to dying parishioners in St John’s Parish.” The plaque is inside St Peter’s cathedral in Divis, Belfast.
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This pair of murals is behind the Maureen Sheehan health centre on Albert Street, Belfast.
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A seven-year old Setanta become Cú Chulaınn (Culann’s Hound) after killing the beast by driving a slıotar (the ball used in hurling) down its throat. “Mol na nóıge agus tıocfaıdh sí” [as written: praise the young [people] and it [sic] will flourish; usually the phrase is “Mol an óıge …” “praise youth …”]
Roumania Rise, Divis, west Belfast
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“Fáılte Go Dtí Ard Eoın. Ardoyne – a confident, colourful, creative community, and the people who made it so” particularly the local schools, whose insignia are shown on the left: “Thnx 2 all r teachers past and present.” The previous mural in this spot (M01783) is invoked by the banner across the top: “Everyone has the right to live free from sectarian harassment” and the inclusion of Holy Cross Girls among the schools
Whitney Houston and Bobby Sands are invoked on the right “We believe the children are the future – value the laughter of our children“.
Estoril Park, Belfast
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“Unbowed, unbroken.” Five of the original 18 portraits are missing – see the image from 2006 (as well as the plaque just out of shot to the left.)
This is a version of the earlier Éıre/Ireland mural (depicted as a female in the centre of the mural) seen in 2005.
Mountpottinger Road, Belfast.
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