Photos by Modog3364 : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

What's with all the political murals in the Belfast area?

Great panoramic shot of Milltown Cemetery, a really powerful, provocative place.

thanks for your comment, Modog3364.

those taxis are indeed MPVs :)

Neil, I think your photo is at the corner of Sevastapol St. and the Falls Road (c. 1999 as you've noted). Looks as though the building has been modernized if not completely replaced, complete with updated mural, still of Sands. If you move yours to Sevastapol, near Clonard St., you'll see more recent views of the same spot (old neighborhood of old friends in West Belfast).

Recognize this one, the tall cross in Milltown, looking particularly Gothic here rather than political. You've got a beautiful set of photos from Ireland - really like the crazy colour cottage, the castle in Kilkenny, and the lane up the hill to nowhere. Great stuff.

RPG avenue... an interesting area. Nicely captured shot as you go down the Falls. Black Taxi in the foreground makes for a typical scene as you venture through.

Beautiful and creepy, the field of the dead in Catholic West Belfast.

General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin burns behind Irish volunteer during the Easter Rising in 1916. Humorous juxtaposition, the shiny motor in front of a mural celebrating the sacrifice of the Easter rebels, vilified at the time, their leaders shot in gaol, and now regarded as martyred heroes by present republicans. Could you see Mick and Dev in that blue beauty?

American military aggression against Cuba? The Bay of Pigs occurred nearly seven years before the onset of the most recent Troubles. Furthermore, Castro's repression of his people, his denial of their human rights, has been far more severe than the British government's perceived repression of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland. This asinine mural, in suggesting parallel aims of Cuban communism and Irish republicanism, claims in effect that Sinn Fein strives for media censorship, one party politics, and (God forbid) the replacement of Catholicism with the worship of the state. Do they really want this kind of association? A rethink required.

Great vista photo of Belfast, looking east, with the gantries of Harland & Wolff shipyards in the background. The company built H.M.S. Titanic and her sister ship Olympia there in the 1910s. There's a good deal of brick and mortar between the photographer and the distant hills of County Down.