The bird on the hat on the head of the man playing the piano with the dials and the tubes and the bulbs tweets love. Detail from one of the murals in the car-park/courtyard of Menagerie (Web | Fb), on University Street. Painted by Elph (Fb) in May 2012.
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As he mentions in the video below, JMK (Jonny McKerr – Fb) has long been painting classical sculpture. This Venus/Aphrodite (or perhaps Diana/ Artemis?) – sporting a modern attitude – takes its place in the gallery that is North Street, replacing (the first) Read More.
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“Youth has no age – Pablo Picasso”. Above is one of the panels on Donegall Road, just above the City Hospital railway stop, celebrating the Sandy Row community.
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Sınn Féın – ag tacú le seachtaın na Gaeılge – Rıth 2014 [Sınn Féın – supporting Irish-language week – Race 2014]”. Youtube video of the launch.
Board at Connolly House on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast.
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“There are more British troops in Ireland than in Iraq.” Éırígí (web) stencil in Slemish Way, Belfast.
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Here are close-ups of two of KVLR’s (Kevin Largey – Twitter) new faces in the first-floor windows in Garfield Street. The wide shot below shows all seven windows, and the Take The Red Pill piece featured a few days ago.
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“To put bread on the table, those days are gone, when we all had to to Willie Allen’s pawn.
We met and we married along time ago; we worked for long hours when wages were low.”
Above and below are boards 3 and 4 of the ‘Sandy Row memories’ at the end of Blythe Street, showing Murray’s Tobacco Factory (in Linfield Road/Sandy Row, which closed in 2005 before being refurbished and opening in 2012 as Murray’s Exchange) and the old Belfast & Ulster Brewing building (unchanged image here), home to the south Belfast Ulster Volunteers (Sandy Row History) and most recently (until 2007) the home of Gilpin’s Furniture.
Previously (and for more information): Parts 1 and 2 Mr. Saturday Night
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Ed Reynolds has completed a set of more than 20 panels at the switchback steps and ramps that lift pedestrians from North Queen Street into the New Lodge estate. As described on his web site, many of the panels are based on old photographs of the area and its residents. The work was officially unveiled on Wednesday (June 18th) and was sponsored by New Lodge Arts and Belfast City Council.
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A dachshund looks quizzically at a bottle of buckie (Buckfast tonic wine – fortified to 15% alcohol) left on the wall. Street art by Verz (Fb | Web), officially entitled “Sausage”, on the wall outside the Crescent Arts Centre, just off University Road.
Another of Verz’s ‘Dogs On The Street’ series: Psychedelic Dog
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The waste-ground at the corner of Templemore Avenue and Newtownards Road (where the flyers featured in Harland & Why were posted) was given a face-lift with images of east Belfast heroes Van Morrison and George Best and the words “East Side – Inspiring Belfast”. The red-white-and-blue is supplied by the phone-boxes and the passer-by.
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