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This is a map of the murals, graffiti, street art, and memorials, both past and present, in Belfast/Béal Feirste/Belfawst, London-/Derry/Doire/Derry and elsewhere in Northern Ireland.

At present (early 2022), there are roughly 650 murals and 230 pieces of street art in Belfast. A spreadsheet of current murals can be found at shorturl.at/lmqrB .

There are more than 5,000 pins on this map, of the following types and colours:

Key – Pin Types
Dot: Image (Mural/Board/Stencil-Image)
No Dot: Words (Graffiti/Banner/Stencil-Word)
Thumb-Tack: Memorial plaque/stone/garden, Building, Scene

Key – Pin Colours
Blue: PUL (Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist)
Green: CNR (Catholic/Nationalist/Republican)
Red: Non-Sectarian

Click on a pin for information about, and (at the bottom) a photograph of, each work.

Many locations, over time, have been the site of multiple artworks; these are listed in temporal sequence and the photographs are likewise presented sequentially.

For each work, information is presented in the following order, separated by semi-colons:
Title/Description ;
Date of creation ; (“und” = unknown)
Artist(s) ; (“unk” = unknown)
Blog post link(s) ;
Reference number of image(s) ;
Years floruit ;
Any other information

Artists – some abbreviations:
“GK” = “Gerard ‘Mo Chara’ Kelly”
“DD” = a Short Strand artist
“ML” = “Marty Lyons”
“MD” = “Michael Doherty”
“DC” = “Dee Craig”
“JS” = “John Stewart”
“ROM” = “Risteard Ó Murchú”
“LQ” = “Lucas Quigley”
“BA” = “Bogside Artists”

Reference numbers:
“X” and a five-digit number indicates the Extramural Activity collection;
“M” and a five-digit number indicates the collection of Peter Moloney;
“R” indicates the books of Bill Rolston (R91 = Politics & Painting, R1, R2, R3, R4 are the Drawing Support series) there then follows a page or plate number;
“A” and a three-digit number indicates the collection of Alain Miossec;
“C” and a five-digit number indicates the Tony Crowley collection at CCDL, images used with permission – for full size images search http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/mni with “mni” then the five-digit number, e.g. mni00627
“J” and a four-digit number indicates the Jonathan McCormick collection at CAIN; for images, go to https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/mccormick/search_murals.htm and enter the four-digit number in the ‘Description’ field
“D” and a five-digit number indicates the collection of squire93@hotmail.com
“S” and a five-digit number indicates the (anonymous) collection of S

In the list, the order of areas covered is:
west Belfast – CNR
west Belfast – PUL
north Belfast
east Belfast
city centre
south Belfast
Antrim
London-/Derry
Strabane to Bangor

City borders, “peace” lines, and outlines of old neighbourhoods have also been drawn on this map. Huge thanks to PRONI and SpatialNI for making historical maps available at https://apps.spatialni.gov.uk/PRONIApplication/

Map copyright © 2012-2022 Extramural Activity. Downloading of the KML (or linking to the KML for live updating) is permitted for personal use only. For all other uses please contact extramuralactivity@gmail.com

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