A thread of non-political stuff (kinda!). Starting with this great Fontaines DC piece in the Maiden City. This photo August 2025.

Gerard Donaghey (1954-72) was a 17-year-old Fianna na hÉireann member shot dead by the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday, 30 Jan 1972. Lord Saville's finding that he was "probably in possession of the nail bombs when he was shot" is widely contested in Derry. This photo Bogside Aug 2025.

The Republican Socialist Youth Movement (RSYM) is the youth wing of the Socialist Republican movement, whose political wing is the Irish Republican Socialist Party and with the Irish National Liberation Army its traditional armed wing. This photo August 2025.

John Hume (1937-2020) was a Derry-born SDLP leader, civil rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1998) for brokering the Good Friday Agreement.​ He championed nonviolent reform, power-sharing, and cross-border cooperation amid the Troubles, serving as MP and MEP. This photo Derry August 2025

Cecil McKnight was a senior member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) in Derry. He was shot dead by the IRA at his home on June 29, 1991, aged 32. This photo Waterside, Londonderry August 2025.

George McBrearty was an IRA volunteer from Derry's Creggan, killed by SAS on May 28, 1981, alongside Charles "Pop" Maguire during an ambush a week after Patsy O'Hara's hunger strike death. This photo Creggan August 2025.

Mickey Devine "Red Mickey," one of the ten dead hunger strikers of 1981, was an INLA founder from Derry's Creggan/Springtown, arrested in 1976 arms raid, sentenced to 12 years. These photos Derry, August 2025.

Patsy O'Hara (1957-1981) was an INLA volunteer and one of the ten dead hunger strikers of 1981. From Derry's Brandywell area, he was radicalised by civil rights marches like 1968's Duke Street and Bloody Sunday, which he witnessed. This photo Brandywell, Derry, August 2025.

The Derry Girls, a TV sitcom featuring from left to right, Dylan Llewellyn, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland and Nicola Coughlan. This photo Derry, August 2025.

A depiction of civil-rights activist Bernadette Devlin (now McAliskey) at the Battle of the Bogside in August 1969. Bernadette went on to be MP for mid Ulster, founder of the IRSP, anti H-Block campaigner, and still an activist today. Painting by the Bogside Artists. This photo Bogside June 2025.

This mural has been regularly repainted and then digitally redesigned and re-erected since the death of the UDA's Stevie McKeag in Sept 2000. McKeag was the top gunman of Johnny Adair's C-Coy of the West Belfast UDA. This photo, lower Shankill, Sept 2025.

Mural commissioned by @kneecapceol.bsky.social and painted by Mickey Doherty and Marty Lyons in August 2025 in Beechmount, West Belfast. This photo Sept 2025.

Glen Branagh, 16, a member of the Ulster Young Militants/UDA from Tigers Bay North Belfast was killed during sectarian rioting when a homemade bomb exploded in his hand. This photo Tigers Bay Sept 2025.

The Belfast Blitz. Hogarth Street, Tigers Bay, North Belfast. John 3:16 'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life'. This photo Sept 2025.

A plaque and painted mural to mark VE Day. This photo Sept 2025, Tigers Bay, North Belfast.

A memorial incorporating a dramatic representation of the Ulster Tower in Thiepval, France, Northern Ireland's National War Memorial on the Western Front and which commemorates the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who lost their lives. This photo, Village, Belfast, Sept 2025.

The Irish Sea Border is the trade border between NI & GGB, created by the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol post-Brexit to keep NI aligned with EU goods rules. This imposes customs & regulatory controls on GB-to-NI goods. This photo Village, South Belfast, Sept 2025

Red Hand Commando memorial mural for Stevie McRea, who was killed in an Irish People Liberation Organisation attack on the Orange Cross social club in the lower Shankill, West Belfast in February 1989. This photo Sept 2025.

Young Citizen Volunteers formed 10 September 1912 and becoming the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles on 17 May 1914. 432 lost their lives in the First World War. This photo Village, South Belfast, Sept 2025.

At its height, A Battalion of the South Belfast UDA covered Sandy Row, Village, Donegall Pass and Upper Ormeau Road districts. Ulster Young Militants and Ulster Freedom Fighter badges & 'Quis Separabit' (Who Shall Separate Us?) This photo Village, South Belfast, Sept 2025.

Combining poppies for the dead of the Ulster Volunteers during the First World War with modern-day UVF militancy on the far right. This photo Village, South Belfast, Sept 2025.

Two printed murals erected on the Platinum Jubilee and then the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. This photo Sandy Row, South Belfast, Sept 2025.

Two murals commissioned by East Belfast Enterprise under their Connecting Communities Through Art banner. Incredibly skilled work by Dee Craig of Belfast Mural Arts who paints on parachute cloth, covering three storeys of the City East building on Newtownards Road, Belfast. Photo Sept 2025

A long-standing and recently repainted mural of unreconstructed paramilitary militancy in Mount Vernon, North Belfast. What message does this give out in the context of talks through an intermediary between the British government and the UVF? Genuine question. This photo Sept 2025.

Irish National Liberation Army memorial mural in Whiterock, West Belfast, featuring (L to R) Hugh Ferguson, Ronnie Bunting, Noel Little, Hugh O'Neil, Micky Kearney, John Colgan and Patrick Campbell. This photo Sept 2025.

Printed mural in support of Kneecap's Mo Chara (Liam Óg hAnnaidh) during his recent trial on charges of supporting a proscribed organisation. This photo Whiterock, West Belfast, Sept 2025.

In among this painted rendition of crowds welcoming an Orange Order parade down the Shankill Road is an interesting combination of a paint-bombed Mr and Mrs Father Santa Claus, the Grinch in a Santa jacket and Charlie Lawson and band Casual Riots. This photo Sept 2025.

Ulster Volunteer Force Scottish Brigade / English Brigade. 'The Ties That Bind'. Shankill Road, Belfast. This photo Sept 2025.

Shankill Protestant Boys Flute Band mural. 'C Coy Street'. Carnan Street/Shankill Road, Belfast. This photo Sept 2025.

Printed mural dedicated to the 36th (Ulster) Division of the British Army who fought during World War I. 32,128 men were killed, including 2,069 killed in two days at the Somme. This photo Sept 2025.

Finbarr McKenna was an IRA volunteer who was killed on 2 May 1987 when he attempted to throw a handmade grenade at an RUC station during rioting in New Barnsley, West Belfast. McKenna was one of 163 IRA figures killed in premature explosions. This photo Sept 2025.

New painted mural in West Belfast of Irish republican icons. From left to right, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803), then Constance Markievicz, James Connolly, Mairéad Farrell, Bobby Sands and Máire Drumm. This photo Sept 2025.

Printed mural off the Falls Road in West Belfast speaking out against the use of 'plastic bullets'. 16 were killed during conflict by these, including 8 children, the youngest being Stephen Geddis aged 10, with only one victim from a PUL background. This photo Sept 2025.

This new printed mural was in the news in September after it was seized by the PSNI in a house raid. Depicted is Kevin Hannaway, one of 14 internees ('the hooded men') subjected to beatings and violent interrogation techniques in 1971. This photo St James, West Belfast Sept 2025.

A new printed mural of unreconstructed UVF militancy in Inverary Drive, Sydenham, East Belfast. This photo Sept 2025.

Over the next few days, I am going to post some captures from a recent visit to Belfast. My posting of these may be sporadic, but I will get there.

10 recent captures of murals: 5 republican, 5 loyalist. PAINT ONLY! No digital artwork, no captions. Let's go (a thread)...

The thread below is a good start if you are new to Bluesky and interested in my work capturing and documenting the murals of Northern Ireland.

1 July 1916 "I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday, the 1st. July, as I followed their amazing attack, I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world." Captain Wilfred Spender after the Battle of the Somme. A photographic thread (1 of 10)

Mairéad Farrell was a Provisional IRA volunteer who after imprisonment in 1976 became the OC of female prisoners in Armagh gaol, where she lead a no-wash protest and then a hunger strike in 1981. This photo Derry, June 2025 (1 of 2)

Cecil McKnight was a 32-year old commander of the Londonderry UDA who was shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his home on the Waterside on 29 June 1991. The IRA claimed it was because he had been behind the killing of Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton. This photo June 2025.

A thread of murals and imagery related to the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Irish National Liberation Army and Republican Socialist Youth Movement beginning with this photo from the Bogside of Derry, June 2025. Feel free to retweet the whole thread if of interest...

Mural featuring Nell McCafferty painted by the Peaball Street Art Collective and unveiled by the President of Ireland. From the Bogside, Nell was a civil-rights campaigner, a feminist, journalist and playwright and founder of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. Photo June 2025

Derry Girls was a sitcom set in 1990s' Derry. Plotlines frequently referred to the conflict including the final special titled "The Agreement". From L to R, Dylan Llewelyn, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nichola Coughlan. This photo June '25

Quick trip to the Maiden City and a quick iPhone shot of the Derry Girls mural, 13 June 2025

Bobby Sands died on this day in 1981 after spending 66 days on hunger strike. Born in Dunmurry, Sands grew up in Newtownabbey and Rathcoole and joined the IRA in 1971 before moving to Twinbrook in 1972, when he was arrested for possessing four handguns... (1/6)

Kneecap are an Irish rap trio who are in the news a lot! This mural was painted in 2022 with the band's Móglaí Bap saying “Anti-police sentiment has been longstanding in the hip-hop community. This isn’t new. We didn’t burn a police Land Rover, we painted one." This photo Aug 2023.

The Easter Rising was an armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland during Easter Week in Dublin in 1916. It is depicted in numerous ways on the walls of Belfast, Derry and beyond. Here are some examples (a thread...) 🧵

The Easter Rising was an armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland during Easter Week in Dublin in 1916. It is depicted in numerous ways on the walls of Belfast, Derry and beyond. Here are some examples (a thread...) 🧵