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Transformation, Hope and the Commons: A Belfast #EASA2022 conference
Fiona Murphy and Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Queen’s University Belfast
An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of steel tubes and cast bronze, spirals upwards into the grey-blue Belfast skies. Her arms extend holding ‘the ring of thanksgiving’. Below her feet sits a globe betokening shared and universal ideals of peace, harmony and thanksgiving. Etched onto this globe are the cities and places where Belfast people and industries migrated and exported to. Belfast locals, well known for their vibrant sense of humour, know this beacon of hope by many other names such as ‘Nuala with the Hula’, the ‘Belle on the Ball,’ or a personal favourite the ‘Thing with the Ring.’
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