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Belfast: City history captured on walls

The life and times of a group of 18th century revolutionaries has been marked with a new work of public art which has gone on permanent display in Belfast.

The four paintings in the city's Cathedral Quarter depict the history of the Society of United Irishmen - a movement co-founded by Wolfe Tone that sought to create an independent Ireland free from English rule in the 1790s.

They have been erected in the newly-restored Warehouse Lane in the Four Corners area where Belfast members of the society met in secret over 200 years ago, calling themselves the Muddlers Club.
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