Let Go Of The Past

“… fight for a better future. It is your choice.” On the darker left-hand side of the board are rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at RUC/PSNI vehicles and the very “peace” wall upon which this board is mounted; on the more colourful right-hand side of the board houses are being built, a student is graduating, children are happy, and workers are taking sledge-hammers to the wall.

With sponsorship from PCSP (Policing & Community Safety Partnership) (web) and Alternatives (web).

Painted by Daniela Balmaverde (web). Cupar Way, west Belfast.

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NWO!

This large tarp in Sackville Street, Derry, reprises a piece that the Bogside Artists (painters of the People’s Gallery) produced in the USA in 2010, on the subject of free speech. The immediate cause of its use here concerning the “NWO” [new world order] is not known.

A version of the image with Union Flag tape over the mouth of Lady Justice was produced in Derry in 2011.

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Lockout Centenary

“There can be no dignity in labour, till labour knows no master.” The statue of Jim Larkin in Donegall Street Place has been augmented with a massive mural celebrating the many unions which have membership in Ireland. 2013 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Dublin lock-out, which ran from August 1913 to January 1914. The three female figures in the border to the right of Larkin are Winifred Carney, Inez McCormack, and ?Betty Sinclair?.

For the statue without the mural, see James Larkin.

Donegall Street Place, Belfast city centre.

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Those That They Forgot To Kill

“Says Joe, ‘Those that they forgot to kill went on to organise’ – from The Ballad Of Joe Hill”

Conway Street sponsored by the Australian Electrical Trades Union (ETU) in Victoria (web). “Independent, strong, united”

In Conway Street, alongside another Australian-sponsored mural: Australian Aid

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