Gaeilge

St Patrick’s Day Funding Denied

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In this board from “St James’s youth” and “St James’s ex-prisoners and carnival choas” St Patrick at the head of a parade of children is blocked from city hall by an Orangeman. The first St Patrick’s day parade to be held in Belfast city centre was in 1998 but funding for this and parades until 2006 was denied on the grounds that it was not inclusive of Protestants (Bryan & Skinner). The event “Tús maıth leath na hoıbre” [a good start is half the work].

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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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Na Cımí Poblachtánacha

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“I ndıl chuımhne na gcımí poblachtanacha a fuaır bas ı ngéıbheann ı rıth na coımhlınte reatha seo.” A lark bursts through prison bars of Long Kesh, Portlaoise, and prisons in England, in which republicans have died from the 70s to 90s.

Beechmount Avenue, west Belfast

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Draoıchláırseoırí An Chınn Bhaıle

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In Táın Bó Cúaılnge, the “sweet-mouth harpers of Caın Bıle” are also “druids, men of great cunning and great power of augury and magic.” They come to Medb and Aılıll to entertain them, carrying mistletoe by which they sing, but are mistaken as Ulster spies; the harpers turn themselves into deer to escape their pursuers, near the Lıa Mór (Great Stone) (Death Of Lethan). 

Springhill Avenue, west Belfast

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Hunger Strike

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The sixth mural from the Bogside Artists commemorates the 1980 hunger strikes, first in Long Kesh and subsequently in Armagh Women’s Prison. The main figure is Raymond McCartney; the female figure is perhaps Mary Doyle (the other two female strikers were Maıréad Farrell and Maıréad Nugent). The info board is from 2007. Rossville Street, Derry.

“This mural is dedicated to the H Block/Armagh prison struggle and in memory of [the ten deceased 1981 hunger strikers]. Ní neart go cur le chéıle.”

The paint-bombed version is from May, 2013, but the mural would not be replaced until 2015.

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Ireland’s Holocaust

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“Britain’s genocide by starvation”, “Ireland’s  holocaust 1845-1849”, “Over 1,500,000 deaths”. Completed version of the Great Hunger mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, previously seen twice in development: 1995 | 1997. The images used are from Illustrated London Newses of the time (see the Visual History page on an gorta mór).

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Upper Springfield Development Trust

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1999 image of the Upper Springfield Development Trust (formed in 1993 from the Upper Springfield Forum) mural on the Whiterock Road, Belfast, now with a large vent unfortunately sticking out of the middle of it. “Mol an óıge agus tıocfaıdh sí”. (Praise youth and it will flourish.)

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