“Féıle na Samhna – ceılıúradh na nGael” (Samhain festival – celebration of the Irish” at An Gaeláras Doıre (now Cultúrlann Uí Chanáın).
Rear of Free Derry corner, Lecky Road, Derry.
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The first mural to Scottish soccer team Celtic (and local team Derry City) in the collection. There is a shamrock in the bottom right.
Drumleck Drive, Shantallow, Derry
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“In memory of their victims … they shall not pass.” An elaborate celtic cross in memory (i ndil cuimhne) of Troubles victims from Catholic south Belfast and a promise to block Orange Order parades in the lower Ormeau.
Farnham Street, south Belfast
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Boards in Charlotte Street, clockwise from left to right around giant YCV [Young Citizen Volunteers] lettering in red, white, and blue: Union flag, Ulster Banner, 36th (Ulster) Division, St Andrew’s Saltire, Union flag.
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Copyright © 2001 Peter Moloney
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In-progress shot of the Young Conquerors Flute Band (Fb) “viking” mural in Pine Street, Belfast.
Here is the completed mural. The previous version had a cartoon viking at the centre – see the Paddy Duffy Collection.
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The apocryphal book of the Bible Ecclesiasticus reads “their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth for evermore” (44:14), which is here applied to 910,000 “British empire casualties” from the Great War, including the Ulster Volunteers and Young Citizen Volunteers raised by “Sir Edward Carson” which became the 36th (Ulster) Division and particularly the Royal Irish Rifles and fought at the Somme 1916.
Apsley Street, south Belfast
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UVF and YCV flags flying over a painted Union flag with “South Belfast Regiment II” in the centre. Eight thousand men signed up for the Ulster Volunteers from south Belfast. Charlotte Street.
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Paint-bombed mural to members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Belfast Brigade, in the 36th (Ulster) Division, with (anachronistic) Ulster Banner and Union Flag: “they arose in the dark days to defend our native land for God and Ulster”, “And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, though shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them – Deuteronomy 7 verse 2”.
Blythe Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast
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Sean O’Casey’s Shadow Of A Gunman gets an Irish-language adaptation (by Gearóıd Ó Caırealláın) at An Cultúrlann, Falls Road, west Belfast.
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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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