“Climate Change Affects Everyone … But Not Equally”. The sands of time are running out: carbon spewing into the atmosphere from factories (on the left) is melting the ice-caps, leaving polar bears without a place to stand (upper hourglass) and flooding Belfast (lower hourglass), and the Statue Of Liberty too.
“Reduce your carbon footprint.” With support from Eco-Schools and Trócaire.
Northumberland Street, Belfast
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Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
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“Honour Ireland’s dead – wear an Easter lily.” This Beechmount Avenue/Ascaıll Ard Na bhFeá mural is a memorial to republicans from County Antrim from 1798 to 1966 – when the ‘County Antrim Memorial’ was raised in Milltown on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising – and beyond; it is pictured in the lower right, a large cross-shaped monument. Tom Williams (WP), an IRA volunteer who was executed during the Northern Campaign (during the second world war) and is buried in the plot, is mentioned specifically on the headstone in the lower left.
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Owen Paterson (with one “t”) is the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who revoked Price’s licence last year after she appeared at an Easter rally but those charges have just been dismissed (BBC). This Marian Price (WP) mural on the Whiterock Road was launched on May 13 to protest her continued incarceration. The stencil is in Beechmount Street.
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Copyright © 2012 Peter Moloney
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“In loving memory of Kathleen Feeney, shot dead 14th November 1973, aged 14 years. Erected by her family & friends from the Brandywell & surrounding area.” Feeney was killed during an IRA sniper attack on the British Army in Quarry Street and at the time the IRA denied that Feeney was hit by an IRA bullet. In 2005, however, it released a statement (CAIN) announcing that it had conducted an investigation and was reversing the claim.
Quarry St, Brandywell, Derry
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M08075
This is a new plaque to Stephen McConomy, killed by a plastic bullet in 1982 (for the previous plaque, see M03363) along with (on the fence below) a reproduction of the front page of the Derry Journal that announced his death.
Fahan Street, Derry
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Emblem of the 36th (Ulster) Division, King Billy, and the Holy Bible, all in an orange-and-purple frame topped with a crown.
For a close-up of the plaque (in a different location?), see Fame’s Eternal Camping Ground.
“BYD” is possibly Ballee Young Defenders.
Drumtara, Ballymena
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This is the updated version of a mural seen previously in 2007. The main panels remain the same, but the apex has been changed from Orange Order flag and St Andrew’s Saltire to a ribbon read “Fight to a finish”, with shamrocks.
Drumtara, Ballymena
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The Ulster Defence Regiment was formed in 1970 as a replacement for the B Specials. It was amalgamated into the Royal Irish Rifles in 1992.
Ballee Way, Ballymena
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“Welcome to loyalist Harryville. No surrender. God save our Queen.”
Alfred Street Place, Ballymena. Previously a UDA board.
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The Ballymena version of Eddie The Trooper carries a UFF flag and stalks a barren landscape, free from corpses or tombstones.
Queen Street, Ballymena
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Peter Moloney Collection 