Drop The Rents – Extramural Activity
“Drop the rents” is an IRSP (web) campaign (pdf) to prevent gentrification by getting landlords to set rents in line with the Local Housing Allowance. (You can see the current rates at …| Extramural Activity
Two positive messages side-by-side in Castle Street: on the left, “Stop war” by Nathan Bowen (ig | web store) and on the right “Love conquers all” by ThisIsLostBoy (ig). Here are three more by Bowen in Belfast: one | two | three… Continue reading →| Extramural Activity
“Drop the rents” is an IRSP (web) campaign (pdf) to prevent gentrification by getting landlords to set rents in line with the Local Housing Allowance. (You can see the current rates at …| Extramural Activity
“One world, one struggle – Ireland, Palestine”. Free Derry Corner is flying the Palestinian flag, both in cloth and in paint. As we approach the two-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks by Hamas, in which roughly 1,200 Israelis died,… Continue reading →| Extramural Activity
“Free Marwan and all Palestinian political prisoners”. Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the group Fatah, has been in Israeli prison since 2002. He was seen last month in a video showing Is…| Extramural Activity
This is a new tarp on Dee Street, east Belfast, in which a child asks a sleeping lion to “wake up”. Both are wrapped in the Union Flag. The (probable) context for the image is the idea that foreigners –… Continue reading →| Extramural Activity
Work on the “New Life” (New Life City church – Fb) concrete relief on the Cupar Way “peace” line (war wall) at the North Howard Street gates has been completed – with brightly coloured paints and a pair of plaques below the… Continue reading →| Extramural Activity
“Tackle inequality – create opportunities – inspire change”. The large board shown here is in Cupar Way, near the security gates in North Howard Street, which are locked nightly between 8:30 and 6:30 a.m. (DoJ). These and the nearby Northumberland… Continue reading →| Extramural Activity
“Bi herri, borroka bat – ETA [Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a Basque separatist group]” – “Two peoples, one struggle”, in Basque, on the side of the Falls library in Sevastopol Street. Click image to enlargeCopyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac CoılleX15747| Extramural Activity
“Gaza genocide 186,000+” This is a small stencil on the Glen Molloy piece in North Street, perhaps in reference to the number of casualties in Gaza (Al Jazeera youtube) to which should be added more than 60,000 deaths (Derry mural… Continue reading →| Extramural Activity
Anti-immigrant graffiti on the wall of Mustardseed Christian Fellowship in Crimea Street, west Belfast Click image to enlargeCopyright © 2025 Seosamh Mac CoılleX15743| Extramural Activity
