Verbo-visual rhetoric of Belfast murals
Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
Year: 2018

Belfast murals are one of the landmarks of the city. They constitute a peculiar medium of communication, mixing word and image in a powerful ideological message. They express highly emotional content, and have been addressed to original target audiences of republicans and loyalists. In this respect they have served to refl ect and infl uence sentiments of the communities involved in the confl ict, and as a communal memoir commemorating crucial events, thereby contributing to their ethnic identit