The World Did Gaze In Deep Amaze - International Wall, Divis Street - Belfast - Murals on Waymarking.com

"Towards the end of July 2016, the IRPWA began painting a POW mural for the right end of the wall, space that the historical painters hoped to use for a gallery of international figures inspired by Irish resistance — Leonard Peltier, Marcus Garvey, V.I. Lenin,W.E.B. DuBois, Mahatma Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, Muammar Gaddafi, Yassar Arafat, General Giap, and Sukhdev Thapar — under the title “And the world did gaze with deep amaze” (a line from the song The Foggy Dew). This would have provided a book-end to the mural similar to the gallery of early nationalist figures at the left-hand end. The IRPWA whitewashed the end of the wall and commenced work on a POW mural (leading to two sets of painters working at the wall in late July). In the end, only Leonard Peltier was painted, in the same style as Wolfe Tone."

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"Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In 1977, he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first-degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation."

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City: Belfast Location Name: International Wall, Divis Street Media: Paint on brick Relevant Web Site: [Web Link] Artist: Not listed Date: Not listed

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