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1st mural: mural with the colours of the Spanish flag in the background, commemorating the men from Ireland - there were over 300, with some 78 from the North - who joined the International Brigades to support the Republic in Spain.
2nd mural in: 'americas greatest failure' Mural of George W. Bush, the 43rd US President in front of a torn Stars and Stripes flag. In his right hand he clutches a bundle of dollars and he sucks on a pipe held by his left hand that feeds into the oilfields of Iraq in the adjacent mural. A "British Support Hook" supports this pipeline. Black bubbles with $ signs emerge from his ears. The Iraqi desert is a wasteland of skeletons and debris of war, with a tattered Stars and Stripes flag fluttering in the breeze.
St.Comgall's School, Divis Street, Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto June 9, 2019. Hop On Hop Off Tour.The plan is to transform it into an International Tourist centre, with displays and recollections of the Troubles as seen from all sides, even those of British soldiers and photographs of the murals, including past ones no longer there. It will also serve as a cultural centre for the community, with a cafe.
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Divis KP or Divis Key Point as it was known, was a remote military communications station situated on the bleak Divis Mountain to the west of Belfast overlooking the City. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the site little is publicly known about it, however as part of the normalisation process within Northern Ireland it was abandoned in around 2005, this visit was in 2008. I believe it was demolished the following year.
There was a short article I came across in ‘The Sapper’ magazine January 2005 from the two Sections who were tasked with the ‘lock and leave’ of Divis KP. They stripped out 2km of coil fencing, installed new chain link fence with razor wire, removed the reinforced concrete blocks along with other improvised barriers and electrical cables.
When I visited first, it was clear that vandals had cut wire to gain access, and smashed doors and windows, as well as caused other damage inside. Most of the site has been removed, and the compound reduced in size, but a single mast and transmitter house still remain.
The spot in the Roman Forum where Julius Caesar was cremated. Commemorated firstly with a column, then with the Temple of the Divine Julius, the remains of which can be seen in the background. Both column and temple were built during the reign of the emperor Augustus, Caesar's great nephew.