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Belfast Mural Tour

Belfast is famous for its Nationalist, Unionist, Sporting and Community murals. In 2012 your web master took a Black Cab "Mural Tour" and took these photographs. If you visit Belfast one a Mural Tour is highly recommended as it provides an insight into the recent history of the Capital of Northern Ireland. The driver on my tour was an excellent guide.

The photographs are posted in a neutral context for their artwork / historical context and are not intended to carry any political message.
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  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Tigers Bay Community Mural, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Midland Boxing Club Mural, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    The Great Hunger Mural commemorating the famine which effected Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Otherwise known as the Potato Famine. The Marian Price graffiti refers to one of the republican Price sisters then in prison. She was released in May 2013.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    The Great Hunger Mural commemorating the famine which effected Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Otherwise known as the Potato Famine.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    New Lodge 2000 Community Mural, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist Mural - "Out of the Ashes of 1969". The date refers to when the Irish Republican Army (IRA) split into Official IRA and Provisional IRA.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist “New Lodge Six Massacre” commemorative mural. Jim Sloan and Jim McCann were killed in a drive-by shooting at the top of the New Lodge Road around 23:00 on February 03, 1973. Shortly after the British Army opened fire on the junctions of New Lodge Road and Edlingham Street from the direction of Duncairn Gardens and from the military observation posts on the top of the flats in the New Lodge Road. This resulted in the deaths of four more men -Tony Campbell, Brendan Maguire, John Loughran and Ambrose Hardy.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist Mural, Ardoyne - The Hedgerow School. Commemorating the Hedge Schools which provided education in the Gaelic tradition during the period of the Penal Laws.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist - History of Irish "Stair na Gaeilge" - Ardoyne. The Plough is symbolic of the Starry Plough flag used by the Irish Citizen Army commanded by James Connolly . The Starry Plough flag was first used in 1914 and depicts part of the constellation of Ursa Major, known as The Plough in Ireland and Britain, one of the most prominent features of the night sky over the Northern Hemisphere throughout the year.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist - "The Mass Rock Rock" Ardoyne, Belfast. It commemorates the period in which Catholic worship was suppressed by the British in Ireland.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist "Flight of the Earls" Mural - Ardoyne.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Mural dedicated to the Taxi drivers who died during the troubles in Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Ardeoin Kickhams GAA Mural - Ardoyne, Belfast

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Anti Police Nationalist Mural - Stephen Lawrence / Robert Hamill, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist mural based on the painting "Birth of the Irish Republic" depicting the scene in the General Post Office, Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, James Connolly lies wounded on the floor whilst the leaders of the rising stand around him. - Berwick Road, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist Garden of Remembrance, Ardoyne. The celtic cross bears a plaque which commemorates its unveiling by Nora Connolly, Daughter of James Connolly one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Ardeoin / Ardoyne Community Mural, Belfast

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Ardeoin / Ardoyne Community Mural, Belfast

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Cupar Way Peace Wall, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Cupar Way Peace Wall, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Cupar Way Peace Wall, Belfast.

  • Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012

    Nationalist memorial commemorating IRA volunteers Bobby McCrudden, Mundo O'Rawe, Pearse Jordan. Divismore Crescent, Belfast.

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    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012
    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012
    Belfast Mural Tour - April 06, 2012