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The Belfast Mural Guide (Locate Series). Belfast: MSF Press. ISBN 978-0956806918. Robert Kerr (2014). An Treoir Mhurphictiúir Bhéal Feirste (Irish language edition of 'The Belfast Mural Guide') (Locate Series). Belfast: MSF Press. ISBN 978-0956806925. Maximilian Rapp: Murals in Nordirland: Symbol der ethno-kulturellen Identität und Spiegel ...
King Billy mural, Sandy Row: Date: Taken on 20 April 2013: ... Belfast, British Isles, Europe, ... Cultural depictions of William III of England;
Belfast Wheel King William Park: Sculpture: Bronze Wheel is composed of 12 segments, ... West Belfast is famous for its murals, both Loyalist and Republican.
The first mural of William was painted in Derry in the 1920s and depicted the Battle of the Boyne and his ending of the siege of Derry. King William is the most common theme of Loyalist murals in Northern Ireland. The "King Billy" murals are a mixture of "some old, some new, some ornate, some naïve". [7]
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In 1690, on his way south to fight at the Battle of the Boyne, King William III of England and his troops travelled along Sandy Row. [6] Tradition holds that part of his army camped on the ground where the Orange Hall now stands. The Hall was opened in June 1910 by Lady Henderson, wife of former Lord Mayor of Belfast, James Henderson
A mural by a Belfast street artist in tribute to displaced Ukrainians has been selected as one of Graffiti Art Magazine’s renowned Murals Of The Year. Emic, aka Eoin McGinn, painted a sunflower ...
Protestants portrayed the Williamite victory as a triumph for religious and civil liberty. Triumphant murals of King William still controversially adorn gable walls in Ulster, and the defeat of the Catholics in the Williamite war is still commemorated by Protestant Unionists, by the Orange Order on the Twelfth of July.