Work by KVLR (tw | Fb) and PENZ for HTN 2020 in Kent Street, Belfast. There are images of KVLR and a blurred-out PENZ at work in the HTN 2020 video.
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The Portrush Flyer is a steam-engine train service operating (since 1973) between Belfast and Portrush on Sundays during the summer months. The mural, in Ards Park, Monkstown, replaces a UFF mural dating back to 2001. Shown is engine ‘No. 85’ (which is just one of the engines that have been used; for images of ‘No. 171’, ‘No. 4’, ‘No. 85’, and ‘No. 131’ dating back to the 1970s, see SteamTrainsIreland) passing under one of the “new” viaducts (for more info, see Geograph). For an image of the mural’s 2019 launch, see Newtownabbey Times.
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The “Ulster’s Finest” mural in Monkstown was remarkable for its depiction of two female volunteers, carrying Uzis, the only depiction of female loyalist volunteers (see Rolston ‘Women on the walls’ in Crime Media Culture 14.3, 2018, p. 373). It was plastered over, perhaps because the gable is next to Hollybank primary. Some of the pebbledash wore away in January/February to reveal the mural – still in good condition – beneath (Vintage_UVF). For the original mural, see T00230.
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Holly Pereira (web | tw | ig) is an illustrator, muralist, and sign-writer from Dublin who painted a piece in Kent St for HTN 2020.
Previously: Just Because You Feel It, Doesn’t Mean It’s There |
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For the centenary of the end of WWI (in November 2018) a small board was added to the UFF’s South East Antrim Brigade mural in Rathfern.
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“Grá mór” [lots of love] on an electrical box in Ardmoulin Street. Artist unknown.
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Abstract work by Without Matter (ig) for HTN2020.
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Nala bounds ahead so quickly that the bicycles seem to stand still. Work by Conor McClure (ig | web) for HTN2020.
Previously by McClure: Vaulty Towers | Head On | More Wolf Than Woman | Spring Wings | The Art Of Precious Scars | Walled Garden.
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Update February 2021: OMAK leaves his mark on Leo Boyd’s piece:
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Artist and screen-printer Shane O’Driscoll (ig | web) was in Belfast in September for HTN 2020. His Kent Street piece contains some of the same elements as in his ‘Sea Song’ piece for the New Light exhibition this summer.
Update Nov 7th: The local writers give their verdict by vandalising the piece/re-purposing the wall.
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“By night and by day, I ever, ever pray/While lonely my life flows on/To see our flag unfurled/And my true love [to] enfold/In the valley of Slievenamon.” The lyrics are the final lines of The Valley Of Slievenamon, written by Charles J Kickham “fenian, IRB, poet, novelist, author” and much loved in Tipperary. The heroic hurler, however, is Cú Chulainn (rather than the midlands’ Fıonn Mac Cumhaıll). Ardoyne Gaelic games club Cıceam Ard Eoın (tw | Fb) was founded in 1907, 25 years after Kickham’s death.
See previously: (2008) Ard Eoın Kickhams | (2015) The Heart Of Our Community one | two. Also Stronger Together.
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