The Troubles go from H-block to TikTok
Why memes have replaced murals
FEW BUSINESSES can be more certain of success than a paint shop in Belfast. Locals on both sides of Northern Ireland’s sectarian divide love the stuff. Two decades after the “Troubles”, a bloody conflict that ran from 1968-98, the colours of kerbstones and murals are still as useful to passers-by as any map: plenty of green in nationalist areas; lots of red, white and blue in unionist ones. The culture war, at least, goes on.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Up(load) the RA”
Britain September 19th 2020
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