“A difficult climb can’t ruin the view”
This is one of at least three murals painted by Becky Gilmour (ig) as she skated-boarded the 2,700 kilometres of the Wild Atlantic Way in order to raise mental-health awareness and money for the Samaritans (Donegal Daily).
On boards mounted in Main Street, Bundoran.
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“The Lisbellaw community celebrates the coronation of his majesty King Charles III. God save the King.” Charles’s coronation was on May 6th, 2023, eight months after acceding to the throne upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. He turns 78 this year (2026).
This is a large printed board in the Brook Street, Lisbellaw, below the A4.
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In the myth of the Golden Apples Of Lough Erne (Yeats), Conn-Eda is given a seemingly impossible quest by his step-mother: to bring back three golden apples, a horse, and a hound in the possession of the king of the Fir Bolg, who lives in Lough Erne.
Little does he know that the horse that accompanies him on his adventures is the king’s brother, who has been bewitched, but who is released by self-sacrifice and Conn-Eda’s compassion, thus securing his success with the king. Conn-Eda returns riding the steed, leading the dog, and carrying the three golden apples from the king’s crystal tree.
This interpretation of Conn-Eda’s triumphant return is by Kevin McHugh (web), with support from Enniskillen BID (web), in Forthill Street, Enniskillen.
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Samuel Beckett falls prey to the eternal optimism of the instragrammed mind. The quote – “Tomorrow everything will be better” –is from Act 1 of Waiting For Godot.
Street art by Karl Fenz (web) in Wellington Road, Enniskillen; Beckett attended Portora Royal public school (WP).
See also: I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On.
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The town of Enniskillen – “Inıs Ceıthleann” in Irish – is named, according to a (modern) myth, for the (ancient) Cethlenn of the Fomorians, who attempted to escape a battle by swimming the Erne and made it to the island in the middle.
This street-art interpretation is by emic (web) on the back of Magee’s Bar on East Bridge Street, Enniskillen. It is perhaps inspired by the epithet “chraos-fhıaclach” or “gap-toothed”.
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This painting is the doorway of the former Berry Street Presbyterian but is from Hope/Crown Jesus ministries (Fb). It joins another modern Jesus from Hope/Crown Jesus on the Bank Square side of the building – Light Of The World.
Berry Street, Belfast city centre
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“Fáılte” [Welcome] to Moyard. The trend in painting electrical boxes (see the Visual History page) has been taken up in west Belfast, though many of the pieces are not by street-artists, as they all are in other areas of the city.
Here are three painted boxes from Springfield Park along with an additional box (the ‘donate’ hearts – see X11524) on the other side of the Springfield Road in Divismore Way, which join those seen in Bóthar Chluanaí, Gaırdín Na hÉıreann, and Perennials.
See also: St Agnes | Wildstroke | Gort Na Móna Abú | Pobal ⁊ Óıge | Lóıste Na Móna | Ag Croí An Phobaıl | Gort Na Móna | Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants | Send In The Clowns | St Agnes Abú | From The Plough To The Stars | Humanitarian Intervention | Lily Of The Rift Valley | Free Palestine.
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A pair of wooden lilies – symbol of the 1916 Easter Rising – are painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag and are placed below Palestinian flags on the Greater Ballymurphy memorial garden. (For the the names on the plaque, see the Peter Moloney Collection.)
The electrical boxes (below) are from the community mural at the bottom of Springhill. The imagery on the second one is by Emmalene Blake – see Seas Leıs An Phalaıstín.
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Belfast Royal Hospital was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria in 1899 (two years before her death) and a bronze statue by J. Wenlock Rollins (Public Statues) was installed in 1903 at the entrance to the hospital in its new Grosvenor Road location.
Activists from Lasaır Dhearg (web) poured red paint over what it called a “symbol of empire” on Friday (February 27th) (News Letter | MSN’s copy of the Irish News story). Paint remained on Sunday, despite an earlier attempt to wash it off (Independent).
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“Harmin celebrates 100 years of Northern Ireland”. Placard in Harmin Park, Glengormley, Newtownabbey
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