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By Any Means Necessary

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“We declare our right on this Earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being, in this society, on this Earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” The quote comes from Malcolm X’s speech at the founding of the Organization For Afro-American Unity, in which the phrase “by any means necessary” is used repeatedly. “Malcolm X: Inter-national. By Mike Alewitz/Labor Art & Mural project, USA. Special thanks to: Sean Colligan, Bill R, Mickey Doc, Danny Devenny & Radical Artists, Ardoyne Fleadh Comm.”

Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast

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Serving The Community Through Transport

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“This mural honours black taxi drivers who were murdered in this conflict”, including the eight named in the ‘roll of honour’ on the right: Michael Duggan, Jim Green, Harry Muldoon, Paddy McAllister, Caoımmhın [sic] McBradaıgh (killed at Milltown), Thomas Hughes, Hugh Magee, Padraıg Ó Cleırigh. “In memory of all taxi drivers, public and private, who were murdered by loyalist/British crown forces  during the conflict serving their community through transport.”

Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast. For a similar mural on the Falls, see Serving The Community.

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Comms

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Two of the three comms (“communications”, messages by H-Block prisoners on tobacco paper or toilet paper and smuggled from wing to wing or to the outside) reproduced in this mural describe the decision to undertake the hunger strike (written by Bobby Sands) and the reaction to his death (from Ardoyne man Bik McFarlane to “Brownie” – Gerry Adams). The three describes a beating received by Ardoyne resident and blanket man Brendan McClenaghan.

Ardoyne Avenue, north Belfast

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Part Of Our Heritage

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“Gaelic games – part of our heritage.” Athletes play hurling, football, and camogie and the local GAA club Ardoyne Kickhams (Fb) is celebrated. “Is treıse dúchas ná oılıuınt” means “heritage is stronger than upbringing”. “Fáılte go dtí Ard Eoın” (“Welcome to Ardoyne”)

Havana Way, Ardoyne, north Belfast

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Érıu

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“Ardoyne Fleadh Cheoıl – meon an phobaıl a thógáıl tríd an chultúr” = “building community spirit through culture”.

“Eıre [Éire] (Éıru [Érıu]), a queen of the Tuatha Dé Danann, slain at the battle of Taıltean [Taılteann] (Telltown [Teltown], Co. Meath) 698 BC.” She is placed in a neolithic setting and is releasing a dove which flies off in a trail of stars.

Signed in the bottom right corner by “Ardoyne Focus Group”.

This is a repaint of the first Érıu mural; here is the previous Ard Eoın Fleadh Cheoıl mural in this location.

Brompton Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast

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GPO Dublin 1916

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Walter Paget’s Birth Of The Irish Republic is painted as a mural: James Connolly lies injured on a stretcher, being tended to by Elizabeth O’Farrell (? WP), while Pearse, Clarke, and Plunkett (and Ceannt?) stand by.

For Paget’s original, see the Visual History page.

Berwick Avenue/Paráıd An Ardghleanna, Ardoyne/Ard Eoın, north Belfast

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It’s Black And White!

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The Holy Cross dispute of 2001 (WP) is compared to desegregation in the southern United States in the wake of Brown v. Board Of Education in 1957 (WP). The left panel is a rendition of an iconic image of Hazel Bryan hectoring Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine (WP), in Little Rock, Arkansas. The orange sweaters of the central children echo that of the child in the red coat in the (almost entirely black-and-white) Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List. “Everyone has the right to live free from sectarian harassment.”

Estoril Park, Ardoyne, north Belfast

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Markets Volunteers

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The portraits are of Tony Nolan, Joseph Downey, Frank Fitzsimons, Joey Surgenor, Paul Marlowe, Jim Templeton, and Brendan Davison, all of whom were IRA volunteers (Templeton, aged 15, was in the Fianna) and all of whom died in and around the Markets. (Their names would be added to the mural when it was repainted.) This mural replaces Firing Party and is based on the photograph included in Victory IRA.

Friendly Way, Markets, south Belfast

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The Largest Concentration Camp In The World

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“Palestine … the largest concentration camp in the world!!! 3.3 million innocent people tortured, denied their freedom!” Flanked on each side by a hand giving the V-for-Victory sign, on Palestinian and Irish flags.

Divis Street, west Belfast

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