A student makes their way through the cycles of the moon, with Pride pin, skull earring, and owl familiar (and horcrux scar on the cheek?) to guide the way.
Street art by emic (web) at Belfast Royal Academy on the Cliftonville Road, north Belfast.
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“I wished I was more like Nature. Her secret is: patience.” Street art by German artist Hera Of Herakut (ig) in Academy Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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Street art by German artist Jack Lack (web) in Little Patrick Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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“Dear world leaders, please stop your green-washing … yours sincerely, a concerned vegan” – street art by “One Love” Louis Masai Michel (ig) in Whitla Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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39 Allied divisions – 12 of them British – participated in the Normandy Landings – officially “Operation Neptune” – that took place on June 6th, 1944; in planning for the operation, the original “D-Day” was June 5th, but bad weather postponed it until the following day, when 160,000 troops stormed the beaches of the Bay Of The Seine. By the end of August, Paris had been liberated, and by the following May, victory in Europe had been achieved. 2024 was the eightieth anniversary of D-Day and 2025 the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, on May 8th.
This D-Day board and VE Day mural are in Edlingham Street, Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast. Also included below is a WWI memorial electrical box in Mervue Street, though as can be seen from the board (immediately below) the ‘graveside mourner’ silhouette is becoming a generic symbol of lost UK forces.
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The eightieth anniversary of VE (“Victory In Europe”) Day is May 8th. Commemorative events in Belfast include a walking tour of the city centre (City Council) and a dance on the HMS Belfast (IWM); for events elsewhere in Northern Ireland, see VE-VJDay80. Pubs will be open for an extra two hours (until 1 a.m.) on the day.
Shore Road, north Belfast. For the monument and the “Lest We Forget” board in the background, see Remembrance Sunday.
See also: VE Day | The Shankill Remembers VE Day | From D-Day To VE Day
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Street art by Wee Nuls (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
Work-in-progress May 2nd:
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Street art by Friz (web) in York Lane for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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Work by Taxis (Dimitris Trimintzios) (ig) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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“Óglach Bobby Sands 9th March 1954 – 5th May 1981”. Sands was the first of the ten IRA and INLA prisoners to die in the second hunger strike. For the 44th anniversary of his death, a statue was unveiled in Twinbrook, near the Sands family home and next to the memorial garden in Gardenmore Road (Peter Moloney Collection).
The statue was created by Packy Adams (Belfast Media | Irish News) and appears to be based on the photographs by Gérard Harlay – discovered in 2019 – of Sands carrying a United Irishmen flag in a march that took place a few months before his (final) arrest in 1976 (Bobby Sands Trust). The new statue (which does not have planning permission) has a built-in flag-pole, to which an Irish Tricolour was added for the launch on May 4th.
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