“Stand firm – break the bigots back” – a fist smashes a Nazi swastika. Next to the Stephen Lawrence – Robert Hammil board. For both boards in better condition, see Same Story, Same Bigotry. Artana Street, Belfast.
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“Protect your future”. Words from Joni Mitchell’s song Big Yellow Taxi are used to protest basalt quarrying on Black Mountain by Whitemountain Quarrying (part of the Lagan Group). The protests were led by local resident Terry Enright. Here are a Northern Visions TV interview and a NewStatesman article.
The mural also says “Happy 50th birthday, Ballymurphy”. Both Wikipedia and Ciarán De Baróid (Ballympurphy And The Irish War p. 9) give 1947 for the birth of Ballymurphy.
With USDT’s ‘Urban Initiative’, Corpus Christi Youth Centre, and Children In Need.
Springfield Road, west Belfast
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Joe Hughes was confined to a wheelchair and could not speak or properly use his hands. Nonetheless, he became a boy scout, visited Lourdes and Rome, and raised thousands of pounds for disability causes. He was awarded an MBE and a People Of The Year award. The board includes a poem by Brian Smeaton and a biography of Joe.
Beechview Park, west Belfast
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Board on the rear of Free Derry Corner from the Bogside And Brandywell Women’s Groups: “Zero tolerance to violence against women – there are no grey areas.” With some verses from Another Woman by Carol Geneya Kaplan.
Lecky Road, Derry
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Londoner Stephen Lawrence was murdered by stabbing in 1993 and, although arrests were made, no charges were brought. A 1998 public inquiry found that the Metropolitan Police Service was “institutionally racist”. In 2012, two of the original suspects were found guilty of the murder (WP). Catholic Robert Hamill was beaten to death by loyalists in Portadown in 1997 while police in an RUC land-rover looked on (WP). The second image is of a fist smashing a swastika: “Stand firm – break the bigots [sic] back” on top of a Drumcree stand-off mural (which will become visible again in later years). Artana Street, Belfast
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“Drug dealers – leave our children alone now!!!”, “Drug dealers beware – two more days to do”.
Clonard Street, west Belfast
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A kids mural with a message of economic justice: while the kids on the right play with the animals and go swimming, the adults work at “Fair Pay Factory” and enter through a door marked “Isteach”.
Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry
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“The future is in your hands – don’t fund discrimination”. A boycott of Northern Bank was called for because of the lack of Catholics in upper management. According to artist Mo Chara Kelly, the image of a father holding a child comes from Northern Bank’s own ads at the time. Falls Road, Belfast
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Copyright © 1993 Peter Moloney
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In 1992, the Forest Of Belfast project was started, a public-private to preserve old trees and encourage tree-planting. Above is one of the murals painted to publicise the effort. (Another was – and remains to this day (2017) – on Hillman Street/Antrim Road.)
Shiels Street, west Belfast.
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