The loyalist Highfield and Springmartin areas have been “Under the protection of the UDA since 1972”. Highcairn Drive is at the edge of Highfield, next to Springmartin.
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A mural painter puts the finishing touches to a call to a “Hunger-Strike March & Rally Sun 17th Aug. For bus details contact S[ınn] F[éın]”.
Falls Road/Glen Road, Belfast
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Above: “Cáısc [Easter] 1916”, dating back to at least 1990. Below: “Santa is a British agent” (perhaps because of spying concerns or perhaps because of the blizzard that dropped 15 cm of snow in early January, 2008 – get in touch if you know what prompted this graffiti) with “Join Sınn Féın” stencils underneath.
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Catalonian independence mural, repainted from the black-background version, previously seen in 1997 and 2004.
“Not Spain, not France. Free Catalonia. Since 1714 the Catalan nation is military [sic] occupied for the Spanish and French states. Catalonia has their own culture, language, and history. Our country has more than 1000 years of history as a nation. The Catalan flag is the first European flag. Our fight flag is the “Estalada”. The white star means the freedom, and the blue triangle stands for the sky of humanity. Free Catalonia! United Ireland! El nostre dia arribarà! Tıocfaıdh ár lá. 11/8/97″
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Campaigning for an Irish Language Act, begun with the Belfast Agreement (see the 2002 mural in this location which calls for “language rights”) and reinforced by the St Andrew’s Agreement in 2006, continues. “The Irish Language Act NI – needed more now than ever before.” “Acht na Gaeılge T[uaıscaırt] É[ıreann] – de dhíth níos mó anoıs ná rıamh roımhe!” Pobal is a non-profit community development organisation and umbrella group for Irish-language efforts.
Brighton Street, west Belfast
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“George Dubya Bush – war criminal”. The WP page on Iraq war casualties cites a variety of sources putting the number of total deaths between 100,000 and 1.2 million. This Northumberland Street mural is from the IRSP.
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More precisely, UFF/UDA Taughmonagh. Finnis Drive, in south Belfast.
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Wolfe Tone replaces “Sinn Fein [sic] Out” graffiti below the sign for the Republican Museum on the “International Wall”,
Divis Street, Belfast
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The WBTA mural (on the International Wall (Visual History) is quickly repainted, with the central mural of the Easter Rising replaced with a gable-end version of a small (1981) mural in Rockdale St (long gone by 2008; in fact, none of the three murals depicted is extant in 2008 and none existed in the form shown).
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Images depicting a pair of WWI memorials – Thiepval Tower and Ulster Tower – are added to the Somme mural below the Cathedral Youth Club.
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