Showing posts with label West Belfast. Old movies.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Belfast. Old movies.. Show all posts

Thursday, October 29

Belfast's Banksy?

Belfast Banksy?


I noticed yesterday when I was passing the Sinn Fein head quarters at Sevastapol St corner that there is a new mural beside the most famous one of all in the nationalist west of the city. It looks like a 'Banksy' type mural. It made me wonder how it got on that particular wall, beside that particular mural of Bobby Sands, and question whether or not it was appropriate for another mural such as this to be there.
Closer look at singing songs of freedom

Its a good mural, but I'm not too sure about its appropriateness of being there. There are a couple of others dotted about the place of similar style, which led me to think we could have a Belfast Banksy about the place....

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Wednesday, October 28

Darby O'Gill in west Belfast.

Darby O'Gill mural in west Belfast


One of my favourate oldie movies is Darby O'Gill and the little people. Albert Sharpe who played Darby O'Gill came from Belfast and two new murals have emerged in west Belfast's Iveagh district, in testamony to this fact. It is rumoured that Sharpe came from Iveagh, though I don't know for sure. We used to go see him in the old Broadway picture house.

The old Broadway cinema


Afterwards we used to go to a shop called Tramona for a glass of 'attaboy' lemonade that cost tuppence.  Real fun!!

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