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Belfast. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Robert Kerr (2008). Republican Belfast: A Political Tourists Guide. Belfast: MSF Press. ISBN 978-0956026408. – Download a chapter from the University of Ulster's CAIN website; Robert Kerr (2014). The Belfast Mural Guide (Locate Series). Belfast: MSF Press. ISBN 978-0956806918.
Three-quarters of Belfast's estimated 97 peace lines and related structures (such as gates and closed roads) are in the north and west of the city. [4] These are also the poorer and more disadvantaged areas of Belfast. 67% of deaths during the sectarian violence occurred within 500 metres (550 yd) of one of these "interface structures". [5]
The Bogside Artists first began working together in 1993 to document the events surrounding the Northern Ireland Troubles.With supplies donated from local residents, they painted several murals on the walls of buildings in Rossville Street, commemorating the Northern Ireland civil rights movement, the Battle of the Bogside, and Bloody Sunday in which British Army paratroopers opened fire on ...
The mural is located on Harrow Street in the Holylands, Belfast, and is one of a number of new murals popping up in the area. Local resident Brid Ruddy said she is very happy with the impact the ...
A mural by artist Ciaran Gallagher in Belfast is updated to reflect Prime Minister Liz Truss' current political troubles.Source: PA
This mural is located on the gable wall of a maisonnette on the junction of Lecky Road and Westland Street, close to Free Derry Corner. [13] The mural was originally unveiled on Wednesday 1 September 1999, and depicts Annette in her school uniform with an encircled, blue butterfly to the above right of her head.
Like most working class areas in Belfast, and others in the rest of Northern Ireland, Ardoyne's walls feature a number of murals related to politics and culture, although republican topics have been de-emphasised since 2009. Most of these murals were done by Michael Doherty, an Ardoyne resident.
In the Ardoyne area of Belfast, a street mural dedicated to the 1981 hunger strikers on the 25th anniversary of Martin Hurson's death. [7] In 2001 a mural dedicated to the memory Patsy O'Hara was created at Ardfoyle in Bishop Street. [8] In 2008 Ógra Shinn Féin painted a mural in the town of Derry honouring the hunger strikers. [9]