Local boxing champions (plus Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali) from Immaculata Amateur Boxing Club (Fb | tw).
Roumania Rise, Divis, west Belfast
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Fáılte Go Dtí Ard Eoın
“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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Nuada Reborn
The second King Nuada mural took Mo Chara Kelly about two years (on and off) to paint. There are in-progress shots from 2009 and 2008. The original is by artist Jim Fitzpatrick.
Whiterock Road, Belfast
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Páıstí Na Carraıge
Whiterock Children’s Centre mural with scenes from mythical Ireland, including the stories of the Children Of Lear, Oısín, and the Salmon Of Knowledge. Seen in 2009.
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Tá Ár gCultúr Beo
Tá Ár gCultúr Beo (“Notre culture est vivante/La nostra cultura e viva/Our culture is alive”) was painted by Mo Chara Kelly with help from the local youth. The red parts of the mural use a translucent medium that Kelly had become acquainted with while painting in the United States (An Pobal A Phéınteáıl 10) that allow additional figures from modern Ireland (left) and Celtic Ireland (right) to be seen. The winged figure (repeated four times) is a heron that he found in a book of Celtic designs while serving time in Long Kesh.
The mural was the first of four projects in Springhill facilitated by the Upper Springfield Development Trust as part of a “West Belfast Arts & Heritage Trail” (as per the plaque just out of view to the right) or “Public Arts Trail”.
Springhill Avenue, Belfast
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Eastát Ghleann Collaınn
Mural in the Glen Colin estate, just off the Glen Road showing The Roddy’s club (in white) with the hunger striker memorial in the shape of a harp in front and the St. Oliver Plunkett church, which is in fact on the other (southern) side of the Glen Road, with the twin peaks of Divis and Black Mountain in the background. The Bobby Sands quote “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children” is at the bottom and three Gaelic games players on the right.
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Julie Livingstone
“Julie Livingstone aged 14 yrs. Murdered by the British Army 13th May 1981.” “The Stolen Child – Come away, O human child/To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand/For the world’s more full of weeping/Than you can understand! – WB Yeats.” Livingstone was killed by a plastic bullet. The mural is in Glenveagh Drive. There is also a stone and plaque near the spot she was struck, on the Stewartstown Road.
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The Lurgan Ambush
“Fuaır sıad bás ar son saoırse na hÉıreann. Óglach Sean Burns, Óglach Gervase McKerr, Óglach Eugene Toman. “But they dared to hold their heads up high and never once did fail to declare their wish for freedom like true sons of the Gael” – The Lurgan Ambush (A poem by Ita Green)”. The IRA volunteers were three of the six people shot in Lurgan in three incidents in November and December of 1982: Seamus Grew, Roddy Carroll, Michael Tighe. The deaths of the six would be investigated by the Stalker Inquiry into the shoot-to-kill policy.
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West Belfast Taxi Association
“West Belfast Taxi Association. Dedicated to the memory of Michael Duggan, Harry Muldoon, Patsy McAllister, Caoımhín Mac Bradaıgh, Thomas Hughes, Hugh Magee, Padraıg Ó Cleırıgh, Jim Green. Murdered in the service of their community. A Dhıa dean trócaıre ar an n-anama. May God have mercy on their souls.”
Just inside the WBTA office at King St/Berry St/Francis St.
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Murdered By British Forces
“This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Ned Trodden, Sean Gaynor and John McFadden murdered by British Forces 26th September 1920. Also to the people of this area who suffered at the hands of the RIC who operated out of this commendeered [sic] building [i.e. the Beehive Bar] from 1920-1922.” For more on the trio’s deaths, see The RIC Murder Gang (here called “British Forces”).
Falls Road, Belfast, above the door of the Beehive
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