In the new Rihanna video that I posted over a month ago, the New Lodge Road was the focus of "finding love in a hopeless place". An apartment building like the one above was the setting of a relationship doomed to fail due to drug addictions and violence.
The New Lodge Road is a low-income, primarily Catholic area that surrounds numerous towers like the one above, all of which are topped with a mural of a volunteer IRA member who died during the hunger strikes in 1981. On the walls of the surrounding gable ends of social housing complexes are murals telling the history and evolution of New Lodge.
In addition there are a number pleas for equal civil rights in an area that has felt underprivileged throughout their existence in the area.
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