Obins Street, Portadown, was the site of clashes over Orange parading in the mid-1980s, a decade before Drumcree/Garvaghy Road. In this graffiti, residents offer support to Ardoyne (possibly Holy Cross). Also “Free Seán Kelly“.
Obins Drive, Portadown
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“Fáılte go dtí Bóthar na bhFál” [Welcome to Falls Road]. From left to right (images top to bottom): Balor, Fomorian enemy of the Tuatha and other mythological characters; Celtic FC (not shown); more heroes perhaps including Nuada; stag with harp player; swans/Children Of Lear; water sprite (not shown; see X00752); Janus/cross/dolmen/fáılte; and (facing the previous murals) swan with signatures (not shown); a dolmen.
In relation to the mythologyical imagery, see the Visual History page on Jim Fitzpatrick.
Ross Cottages, west Belfast
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“Ceol gan teoraınn” – “unlimited music” or “music without boundaries”. Belfast’s Sean Maguire (also McGuire) (1927-2005) was an All-Ireland fiddle champion and world-wide ambassador for traditional music (WP).
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“We demand the right to march.” “Portadown District LOL No 1” “Here we stand, we can do no other.” This mural in the lower Shankill is about the disputed Orange Order parade (WP entry, including a map of the route) to Drumcree Church (in Portadown, shown in the mural) part of which goes along the Catholic Garvaghy Road.
N Boundary Street, lower Shankill, west Belfast
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36th (Ulster) Division board commemorating the battle of the Somme, above the outdoor seating next to the Rex bar.
Moscow Street, west Belfast
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Greengairs Thistle (web | Fb) is a flute band from Scotland (Irvine, Airdrie, Fife) which carries the standards of C Company, 1st Battalion UVF.
Carnan Street, west Belfast
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“250,000 Ulster Scots emigrated to America in the 1700s and were the driving force behind the American Revolution.” James Buchanan (senior) emigrated to the United States from Donegal (WP) or Tyrone (Ulster Scots). Junior was born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania in 1791. He was elected president in 1856, the 15th president of the United States, immediately prior to Abraham Lincoln. A version of this mural was also painted in Londonderry in the same year (1999).
“Shankill Ulster-Scots Cultural Society. The Buchanan Mural. This mural was dedicated to the memory of those early Ulster-Scots emigrants by Ms Jane Benton Fort, US Consul General, on Thursday November 4th, 1999. Sae monie hairts gaed far frae hame – bot ilka yin oor ain fowk. This project was funded by Belfast City Council and Making Belfast Work.”
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“Charles J. Kickham 1828 – 1882. Patron of Ardoyne GAA [Cumann Lúth Chleas Gael].” Poet and columnist for the Irish People, Kickham was arrested in 1865 after the offices of the paper were raided upon suspicion of organising an IRB rebellion. The local club has had a mural at the top of the street since 1993.
Flax Street, north Belfast
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The 36th (Ulster) Division included men from the Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers, raised by Sir Edward Carson (depicted at the bottom). The south Belfast areas listed under each poppy are Donegall Road, Lisburn Road, Village, Ormeau Road, Donegall Road, Sandy Row. For the biblical quotation, see the original (2001) post on this Apsley Street, Belfast, board.
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This is the completed version of the Young Conquerors flute band (previously seen in progress) in Pine Street, Belfast. The flags are regimental flags of the 36th (Ulster) Division.
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