Belfast south – Page 3 – Paddy Duffy Collection

Hang In There

2025-06-152025-09-23Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here are only three of many painted utility boxes that have been recently painted as part of the on-going Belfast Canvas project, begun in 2020.

These three pieces are …
‘Hang In There’ by CG Chimp (Chaingun on ig) on the Holywood Road in east Belfast,
‘I (Heart) Pool!’ by PaperSleeve/Niamh McWilliams (web) on Donegall Road in south Belfast,
and an abstract piece by Bláthnaıd Ní hAogáın (ig) in University Square, Belfast city centre.

For about 140 painted boxes, from the Belfast Canvas project and otherwise, see the Visual History page for the boxes.

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At The Going Down Of The Sun

2025-06-052025-06-15Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The memorial garden in Barrington Gardens at long last appears to be finished. The house on the corner of Donegall Road was knocked down in 2012 or 2013 and work began converting the waste ground into a memorial to local Great War casualties in late November 2023. See this entry for images from both November 2023 and October 2024.

Since 2024, three pillars have been added below the main board, one each for the 10th (Irish) Division, 36th (Ulster) Division, and 16th (Irish Division) – for the service of the three divisions, see The Cost Of War, We Are The Dead, and (for the particular story of John Meeke and Willie Redmond) Comrades In Arms – and an iron bench to the 36th has been placed below the crests of the YCV, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and the Royal Irish Rifles on the side-wall to the left.

Silhouetted graveside mourners appear on either side of the main board and in the gates to the garden

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Welcome To Ballynafeigh

2025-05-272025-06-15Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Ballynafeigh is the neighborhood just across Ormeau bridge, containing Annadale flats and surrounding streets – home to Ormeau Road UDA/UFF and Ballynafeigh Apprentice Boys flute band (Fb). The painted boards shown here was painted by Daniela Balmaverde (web) with help from local volunteers and presents imagery from non-Western cultures along with slogans on tree-trunks: “Cultural dialogue”, “Celebrate identities”, Shared neighbourhood”, “Community development”, “Tolerance”, and “Respect cultural diversity”.

The mural is at the Ormeau Road entrance to Ormeau park opposite Candahar Street. The Brigada Romona Para mural was previously in this spot.

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Eyes Of The Tiger

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Here is a gallery of new street art at the Pavilion Bar, St Jude’s Parade, off the Ormeau Road, south Belfast. The pieces are by Friz (web), KVLR (web), “~~Wet Paint~~ Wet Pints” FGB (web) + Katriona (web), “Keys to the city” by Zippy (web), a Peppa Pig crown in alphabetti spaghetti by Rob Hilken (web), and HMC (web)

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A Home Away From Home

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Ballynafeigh Community Development Association (web) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in May with a day of activities and a new piece of street art by KMG (web).

Also included, last below, is the graffiti art on the back of the building: “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible.”

Candahar Street, south Belfast. Also included is a piece of wild-style writing on Oscar’s Barbers, next door.

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Movie Magic

2025-04-272025-06-06Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This is work by David J McMillan (web) for Queen’s Film Theatre (web), next to Cracker Wee Spot in University Square Mews/the alley behind the cinema. On one wall, we have movie-making, with clapboard and camera; on the other, the movie is projected to an audience eating popcorn.

Have A Nice Day

2025-03-022025-04-01Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The mallard duck is common throughout Ireland (Birdwatch), including on Belfast’s Lagan (Geograph). These drakes are on an Annadale Embankment electrical box, painted by Katriona (web) as part of the latest round of painted electrical boxes in the Belfast Canvas project.

With organisational support from Daisy Chain (web).

Also included is an earlier (2023) south Belfast box, from the Lisburn Road, by Zippy (web).

Ulster First Flute

2025-01-022025-10-23Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The Ulster First Flute mural in Linfield Road will be twenty-eight years old this year (2025). There is an image in the Collection from 1998 and images in the other collections from 1997, 2009, and 2018. The band formed in 1996, according to its Fb page, though at the bottom the text reads “Est. 1997”.

335th Anniversary

2025-01-022025-02-20Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This pair of Sandy Row murals will this year celebrate their 35th anniversary, being two of the three painted in the street in 1990 for the 300th anniversary of the Battle Of The Boyne. For the murals in the year of their creation, see M00823 and M00826.

Above is the crest of the city of Londonderry – the siege ended in 1690; below is the crest of the Young Citizen Volunteers, the part-time territorial force for young adults established in 1912, which became the 14th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and part of the 36th (Ulster) Division in WWI.

Rowland Way, Sandy Row, south Belfast