4 books available
Bill Rolston
Published ten years since Drawing Support 3 appeared. Drawing Support 4 reveals that where once military imagery dominated, especially in loyalist murals, now both republican and loyalist muralists are selecting themes from a wider palette. There is still a strong political message in the murals as each community seeks to come to terms with the compromises necessary for peace and the slow task of conflict transformation.
Bill Rolston.
This is the third of the world-renowned Drawing Support books by sociologist Professor Bill Rolston, first published in 2003. Each of the books is an important and unique historical record of imagery relating to conflict and peace. The third volume of photographs of political wall murals looks at the period 1996 to 2003. The book covers both loyalist and republican murals - 114 in all - reproduced in full colour. The murals reflect the period leading up to the Belfast - or Good Friday - Agreement and what the author calls ‘the frustrating politics of transition’.
This is the second of five world-renowned Drawing Support books by sociologist Professor Bill Rolston, first published in 1998. Each of the books is an important and unique historical record of imagery relating to conflict and peace. How can the political wall murals in the North of Ireland cope with the peace process and ceasefires? This second volume of unique photographs charts the changes in loyalist and republican mural painting between 1992 and 1995 and casts a tentative glance towards the future.
This book differs partially from the first edition published in 1992. Some of the original photographs are no longer available and have been replaced by others on the same themes from the same period. The text has been changed accordingly and a postscript added. This is a unique record of a turbulent decade in Northern Ireland history. None of the murals pictured exists anymore.
