Here is a gallery of pieces from Library Street, painted for 2025’s Hit The North street art festival (Seedhead Arts).
From left to right (top to bottom in appearance here): Rob Hilken (web) NOYS (ig) official title “Auditor” writing by TMN Ajax Piper (web) from England Claire Prouvost (web) from Dublin Ohhi Ohno (ig) from Limerick [writers]
Here is a gallery of pieces from Kent Street, painted for 2025’s Hit The North street art festival (Seedhead Arts).
From top to bottom in appearance here, the works are by …
(North side of the street:) Luck (ig) from Thailand (above and immediately below) unknown Karl Fenz (web) My Dog Sighs (web) Sanchai (ig) from Thailand unknown DanLeo (web) unknown (South side of the street:) Mel Carroll (web) Jacky Sheridan (web) SillyMe (ig) Glen Molloy (Fb) Gabriela Joyce (web) Alexandra (ig) Danni Simpson (web) FGB (web) + Katriona (web) Jam (ig) Imogen Donegan (ig) KVLR (web) Lost Lines (ig) JMK (Above Union St:) David McMIllan (web) unknown Holly Pereira (web) Hicks (ig)
Here is a gallery of pieces from Union Street, painted for 2025’s Hit The North street art festival (Seedhead Arts). From left to right (top to bottom in this entry), the works are by:
FESA (ig) from Munch SNAK (ig) Ona Salvador (web) ADW (ig) Molly Hankinson (web) Kerrie Hanna (web) (below Kent St) Shane Ha (web) Kayde (web) Alana McDowell (ig) Niall OL (ig) NRMN (ig) Keyto (ig) Codo (ig) Leo Boyd (web) Conor McClure (ig) KAYOS (ig) JunkGraff (ig) + Sinead Crumlish (ig) and, on the other side of the street, Sky High (ig)
This street art is by Spanish artist Slim Safont (web) on a side wall of the Spaniard in Skipper Street, Belfast city centre, for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
World War II ended in Europe at 11 p.m. on May 8th, after Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allied forces. The date was dubbed “Victory In Europe Day” or “VE Day” and this year (2025) marks its eightieth anniversary.
The text at the bottom of this Shankill Road poster reads: “‘My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not the victory or of any class, it’s a victory of the Great British people as a whole. We were the first, in these ancient isles, to draw the sword against tyranny.’ – Prime Minister Winston S Churchill”. The lines come from brief remarks Churchill made to the crowds assembled at the Ministry Of Health in London – the text can be found at Forces News; Pathé newsreel of Churchill’s earlier radio announcement of the end of the war can be found on youtube.
“English Brigade Ulster Volunteer Force.” “England and Ulster – the ties that bind.” “United we stand.”
On the left are the words from William Blake’s poem, which also serve as the lyrics to the hymn Jerusalem.
“Let our flag run out straight in the wind/The old red shall be floated again./When the ranks that are thin shall be thinned/When the names that were twenty are ten.” [from Swinburne’s A Song In Time Of Order which was also used as a socialist song]
The images along the bottom illustrate the connection between Northern Ireland and England. From left to right: Edward Carson in Liverpool in 1912; 10,00 pledges from Liverpool men; Carson addressing 100,000 people in Hyde Park, London; a banner reading “City of London supports loyal Ulster”; “Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson opens the Ulster Tower in 1921. Sir Henry was killed by the IRA in 1922 at his home in London”; GS Cather, VC winner with the Ulster Division; evacuees to Liverpool in 1973.
Joe Caslin (web) with a poem by Sean Watmore (web) entitled Mind Your Whisht: If lives you talk of are not your own/Whose actions don’t affect you//If existence causes you distress/Your own must be a virtue//Please heed the words my Grandad said/To those who judged another//’Mind your whisht’ and walk away/We’re all in this together.
In Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
Work by English artist My Dog Sighs (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts), with a Belfast-specific reflection, including the Albert Clock and the gantry cranes Samson & Goliath; the child with an ice-cream is three-year-old Teddy, son of street artist Codo (ig).
My Dog Sighs also painted a smaller eye, reflecting the Sunflower Bar, in Kent St.
There is a small bonus piece featuring two “Quiet Little Voices” on a shutter to the left of the main piece.
Paddy Duffy Collection 