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(1) a map/database of the wall paintings in Northern Ireland/north-east Ireland. The database is accessed via the maps. There is one map showing all the wall paintings ever, and another showing only those that are currently visible.
(2) a collection of images and information about them. The collection of images is searchable using the tools in the side-bar. You can also scroll through the entries below — the newest works are at the top. If you want a feed of the latest art, “follow” us using one of the methods in the side-bar — a new entry is added (almost) every day.
(3) a set of “Visual Histories”, that is, pages describing and illustrating the history, trends, and common motifs in muraling and street art, e.g. Cú Chulaınn murals, the Bobby Jackson murals, Free Derry Corner, the International Wall, murals with Iron Maiden’s Eddie The Trooper, etc., etc.
Electrifying Footwork
Jordanian artist Dalal Mitwally (web) was in Belfast for HTN24, painting a large piece in Talbot Street which has signs reading “Danger 33,000 volts” on the wall – marking a Belfast council electricity sub-station.
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The Last Thing To Lose Is Hope
Lídia Cao (ig), an artist from the Galicia area of Spain (ISSA), was in Belfast for HTN24, painting a large piece in Talbot Street, next to DanK’s Blurry Eyed and replacing Sabek’s Conflict.
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Broken Promises
This piece of street art by Zabou (ig) on the old Telegraph offices, painted for HTN24, is about 50 feet/16 metres tall, dwarfing Alice Pasquini’s Glide and BUST’s piece of neo-pop at the corner of Royal Avenue and Donegall Street.
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Drum And Bass
Here is a gallery of 13 pieces painted for Hit The North 2024 on Union Street below Kent Street. In order, from top to bottom, they are by …
Psoman (ig)
David McMillan (ig)
Alexandra (ig)
Shona Hardie (ig)
Perspicere (ig)
Novice (ig)
JMK (ig)
Katriona (ig)
Klo Wi (ig)
?Moira Fowley? (ig)
Kerrie Hanna (ig)
Ana Fish (ig)
BOGS (MOS profile)
There are two pieces inside the construction site, by EOIN and FGB, that we have not (yet) been able to photograph.
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Ulster Freedom Fighters
The UDA began using the “Ulster Freedom Fighters” name from February 1973 onwards in order to avoid the UDA becoming a proscribed organisation, though its members had already killed dozens of people in 1972 and January 1973 (WP timeline). (Fifty Years Of Service (in Ballymoney) marks the fiftieth anniversary – in 2021 – of the UDA.)
The tarp shown above likewise conflates the UDA and UFF, with two images from 1972, before the “UFF” name was used; on the left, the men marching behind a van marked “UDA Patrol” are on the Shankill Road (BelTel); on the right, four men stand at a barricade in the Woodvale (Victor Patterson).
The images in the second tarp show (left) a bus blocking Agnes Street and four men blocking the Shankill Road (Getty – no date given) and (right) a 1975 march in Belfast (Som Tribune).
The UDU board immediately below was seen previously in Ulster Defence Unions.
Glenbrook Road, Glen estate, Newtownards.
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What We Have We Hold
“Ulster is ours”, says James Craig, first prime minister of Northern Ireland, in (a reproduction of) an election poster from c. 1940 (according to Whyte’s). If it is for his own seat in North Down, for Stormont – rather than a poster for the Ulster Unionist candidates in by-elections – it might be from 1938 (WP).
Rockview Street, Village, south Belfast. There are/have been other vintage posters reproduced in the Village – see previously: The Red Hand And The Winning Hand. Also from the Village is a current board employing the phrase “We have what we hold”.
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All This Scratching Is Making Me Itch
Here is a gallery of street art and writing/graffiti art from Union Street (above Kent Street) and Library Street, in Belfast city centre, painted for Hit The North 2024.
Caryn Koh (ig)
Horhay (ig)
Garreth Joyce (ig)
Dreph (ig)
Qwynto (ig)
DECOY (ig)
NIZMO (ig) + SNAK (ig) + JAM2 (ig) + SURIV (ig)
[Library Street]
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KVLR (ig) + PENS (ig)
unknown
Friz (ig)
NOYS (ig)
RAZER (ig)
unknown
KONE (ig)
VENTS (ig)
Library Street
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Eat Your Words
Here is a gallery of the new street art from Kent street above Union Street and on the north side of Kent Street below Union Street, painted for 2024’s Hit The North festival. For the south side of Kent Street, see Happy Accidents.
“upper” Kent Street:
Odisy (ig) & Vibes (ig)
Kitsune (ig)
Rob Hilken (ig)
unknown writer
Artista (ig)
below Union Street:
Elno (ig)
Lours (ig)
Vane MG (ig)
Sepr (ig)
Malarko (ig)
unknown writer
unknown writer
unknown writer
below Union Street, north side of the street
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Happy Accidents
Here is a gallery of the new street art on the south side of Kent Street, produced for Hit The North (HTN24) this weekend. Images of completed works are from May 6th; in-progress shots are from the fifth.
The tribute to Lyra McKee is still on the corner with Union Street. The piece by Mack Signs (ig), above, then follows, and, heading towards Royal Avenue, we have:
Jayde Perkin (ig)
Verz (ig)
Leo Boyd (ig)
Danni Simpson (ig)
Two small boards on the fencing, by Sweat, Tears, And The Sea (ig) and Chain Gun Art (ig)
Wee Nuls (ig) (done the previous weekend, as she then went to Glasgow Yardworks)
KAYOS (ig)
ESTR (ig) perhaps still unfinished
Kilian (ig)
Magdalena Karol (ig)
Lovely Letters (ig)
Karl Fenz (ig)
Lucie FLynn (ig)
Glen Molloy (ig)
Codo (ig)
Keyto (no on-line presence – see previously How About This For Art?)
For the rest of Kent Street, see Eat Your Words.
Update: ESTR’s completed work on May 8th
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Turf Lodge Boxing
This is a new mural on boards celebrating boxing in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast.
Belfast Boxers (ig) gives the names as (l-r) Eoin Hamill, Damaen Kelly, John Ireland, Dee Irving, Damien Fryers, Sean/Jim “Spike” McCormack, Sean McComb.
Hamill (the youngster on the far left) was knocked down and killed on the Springfield Road in 2020 (BelTel | BBC | Irish Times). John Ireland (third from left, with blue collar) died in a crash 2014 at age 20 (Belfast Media).
Norglen Gardens.
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