Extra mural(s)
We drove over to Carrickfergus today, with Diana. She wanted some wool from a shop there, and Richard and I wanted to visit The Secret Bookshelf
It's a lovely place, with a dedicated room for children's books and story-telling, as well as a generous supply of both new and secondhand books for grownups. We managed to limit ourselves to 3 books each...
En route, we spotted some murals that I hadn't been aware of before, on a housing estate. More raw material to send in for the ArtUK collection.
I don't usually choose to post the more obviously sectarian or aggressive-looking Northern Ireland murals; mostly, I prefer to prioritise other images.
But there's a trend, now, for some of the traditional hand-painted murals to be replaced with shiny printed panels instead (often, in Loyalist neighbourhoods, with images of the royal family and of soldiers in the First and Second World Wars). I wanted to record that transition.
Today's main shows a large mural in the traditional style, in a Loyalist neighbourhood. The extra shows one of the printed panels, though unusually it features a woman. Monica Wichfeld had family origins in Fermanagh, but married a Danish aristocrat and became a renowned figure in the Danish resistance in World War Two (she was caught eventually and died in a concentration camp, six weeks before the end of the war).
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