The town of Larne continues to beautify its town centre as many of its shops are shuttered and town down. The piece above and immediately below is by FGB (web) and Katriona (web) in Dunluce Street on the site of Campbell’s pub; the subsequent piece is by Rob Hilken (web) in Main Street, on a site that has been vacant for as long as Google has been mapping streets.
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Here is some graffiti-art and wild-style writing on the Cupar Way war wall from Ansia (ig), Skope (ig) and Nizmo (ig).
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Here are two paste-ups in Warehouse Lane, amongst the images from Belfast Exposed. Above “Expect nothing, appreciate everything” by DZ.B2B (ig) from Dublin, and below, a heart of flowers by tweet_streetart (ig) from Australia.
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Here are two pieces on the legal wall in Little Patrick Street, Belfast city centre, by MUL (web) and Féoıl (ig).
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Here is a selection of painted junction boxes in Belfast city centre Soda.jpg x2 (ig), Kilian x2 (ig), Nine Glens Art (ig), Rob Hilken (web), and Hana Abri Smith.
Waring Street, Donegall Street, Dunbar Link, High Street, Bedford Street, York Street, Dunbar Street
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Here are some newly-painted junction boxes along Stranmillis Road, by NoodleStuudio (ig) (above and immediately below) and ChippyDraws (ig).
Both artists contributed to this year’s (2026) Hit The North: in Library Street and Kent Street.
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These wildlife paintings by HMC (web) – with owl, squirrel, magpie, rabbit, fox, badger and blackbirds among a variety of flowers – is on Stranmillis Road, just south of the commercial stretch of the road but well within the city limits.
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Lyra McKee was shot and killed in April 2019 while observing a riot in Creggan, Derry (BBC). A tribute in Belfast city centre was painted by Emmalene Blake during Hit The North (in May). The piece survived fairly well for a few years (here is a 2022 image) before being repainted with a flat blue background in 2025, which in turn had to be repainted in 2026 (for before and after images see 2026). People have taken to placing stickers with positive messages on top of the graffiti that immediately began to accumulate, such as “You did so well today”, “Fuck being average”, and “Never lose your sparkle”.
repainted during this year’s (2026) Hit The North.
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Sınéad O’Connor uttered the phrase “fight the real enemy” as she tore up a picture of the Catholic pope on live (US) television in 1992 (Time). Her actions were immensely controversial at the time, but nine years later the Catholic church would begin to admit to widespread sexual abuse and its cover-up within the Catholic hierarchy, including tens of thousands of cases in Ireland (Commission Report). She died on July 26th, 2023.
Her words, on a scroll, are held by skin-headed angels in one of the new pieces at the Ulster Sports Club, in Belfast city centre, by Wee Nuls (web), Lost Lines (ig), Ana Fish (web), HMC (web), Féoıl (ig) (“The Patron Saint Of Pints”), and others.
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