Flags of the 1912 Ulster Volunteers and of the YCV in Adam Street, Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01030
Silhouette of a reflective WWI soldier in Adam Street, Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01027
The YCV shamrock and a small board with the (unofficial) arms of the 36th (Ulster) Division, including a Union flag and harp above a red hand on a field of shamrocks. Crumlin Road, Belfast. Seen previously in 1988.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01025
In 1981, six Med[j]ugorje children claimed to have seen visions of Mary. The statue is a now a major site of pilgrimage, though it is not officially approved by the Catholic church. The church of St James is in the background.
Berwick Avenue, Ardoyne, north Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01017
“The spirit (of outdoor music – fiddle, accordion, and flute – and Irish dancing) still lives”, “Maıreann ceoıl agus cultúır na ndaoıne [the music and culture of the people] go foıll”. Mural celebrating the Ard Eoın/Ardoyne Fleadh Cheoıl.
Brompton Park, north Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01007
This “Fáılte go dtí Ard Eoın” (Welcome to Ardoyne) mural celebrates the local Cumann Luthcleas Gael (Gaelic Athletic Club) (Tw) “founded 1902”, with images of a footballer and a camogie player. At the bottom is a standing eagle in Celtic style.
Havana Way, Belfast.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
M01006
“The oak-grove of Colmcille” (or Columba) – the full name of Derry in Irish at the Butcher Street/Fahan Street gate, Derry.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1991 Peter Moloney
M02517
This is an interesting mural from North Queen Street, if only because of its psychedelic colour-scheme and composite style.
The two bulls (presumably from the Táın though they are not the classic brown and white bulls) provide a centre, on either side of which we find Cú Chulaınn dying (and Tuan the eagle) and a dolmen. The horse on the right is perhaps Galloper. There are four faces superimposed on flying geese. The cranes Samson and Goliath are on the left (which suggests a cross-community sponsorship) and a Pride rainbow is on the right.
The mural can also be seen in the Paddy Duffy Collection. If you have any information about the piece, please get in touch.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00898
Núada of the Tuatha Dé Danann and Morrígan (from Jim Fitzpatrick’s Beneath The Sky Of Stars) embrace below a ram (from Fitzpatrick’s Senach The Spectre) and between Celtic creatures inspired by the Book Of Kells.
(This is probably not the “dragon mural” mentioned by Julian Watson in Circa #8.)
Unity flats, west Belfast
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 1990 Peter Moloney
M00894
Peter Moloney Collection 