Recommended: Click on the ‘Full Screen’ button (top right of map, looks like a camera viewfinder/photo corners) to see a larger version of each map.

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Map #1 – All Years, All Areas, All Types

This is the historical map of the murals, graffiti, street art, and memorials, in Belfast/Béal Feırste/Belfawst, London-/Derry/Doıre/Derry and elsewhere in Northern Ireland.

Map #2 – Currently-Existing in Belfast

This is a map of only the murals/boards and street art – graffiti and memorials are not included – in Belfast at the present time. A guide to the street art produced for this year’s Hit The North is included – see Map #3 for a map devoted to Hit The North, both this year and previous years.

As of May 2023, there were roughly 700 political and/or sectarian pieces and 260 pieces of street art in Belfast. A spreadsheet listing and counting the current Belfast pieces by area can be found at https://shorturl.at/aejI8 .

The map of current murals has a separate layer showing the pieces produced for Hit The North 2023. The 2023 festival is also included in Map #3.

Map #3 – Hit The North (Belfast street art festival), 2012-2023.

This is a map showing, by year, pieces painted for the Hit The North street art festival in Belfast, from 2012 to 2023.

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In the side-bar of each map, the order of areas covered is:
west Belfast – CNR [Catholic-Nationalist-Republican]
west Belfast – PUL [Protestant-Unionist-Loyalist]
north Belfast
east Belfast
city centre
south Belfast
[followed in the historical map by …]
Co. Antrim
London-/Derry
Strabane to Bangor

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

The pins on the maps are of the following styles and colours:

Pin styles indicate the Type of display:
Dot: Image (Mural/Board/Stencil-Image)
No Dot: Words (Graffiti/Banner/Stencil-Word)
Thumb-Tack: Memorial plaque/stone/garden, Building, Scene

Pin colours indicate the sect represented by the display:
Blue: PUL
Green: CNR
Red: Non-Sectarian

Click on a pin for information about, and a photograph of, each work at that location. 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) [see the list of abbreviations below]
Blog post link(s) ;
Reference number of image(s) ; [see the list of references below]
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” = “Rısteard 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;
“T” and a five-digit number indiactes the collection of Paddy Duffy; images used in the maps with permission;
“A” and a four-digit number indicates the collection of Alain Miossec;
“C” and a five-digit number indicates the Tony Crowley collection at CCDL, images used in the maps with permission – for full-size images search the CCDL collection with “mni” then the five-digit number, e.g. mni00627
“J” and a four-digit number indicates the Jonathan McCormick collection at CAIN; we do not have permission to show these images on the map, and at CAIN only (roughly) one in twenty images is publicly available; search at CAIN with the four-digit number in the ‘Description’ field
“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;
“D” and a five-digit number indicates the collection of squire93@hotmail.com; images used in the maps with permission
“S” and a five-digit number indicates the collection of S; images used in the maps with permission

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