The faces in two wall-paintings in the lower Shankill estate have been painted out. It is not known if there is a specific point to this or whether it is simple vandalism.
For the unmolested paintings, see Summer Of ’69 and Heal The Harm.
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This is the new piece by Leo Boyd (web) for DC Tours, replacing Belfast Romances on Great Victoria Street. It is full of Belfast icons – Titanic, Sammy the seal, Samson & Goliath, Shiela the elephant, the Albert Clock, city hall, the Europa hotel – as well as some familiar Boydisms such as the wind-up police land-rover and the paintbrush cyclist who is responsible for the pink moon and the yellow sun.
Also included is a nearby ‘painthead’ paste-up – see also Do You Own A Giant Building?
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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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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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Here is a selection of art from the Cupar Way section of the west Belfast “peace” line. Some of the artists were visitors who were in town for Hit The North 2025 (Roo, Philth, Sky High – all of which were immediately blacked out). We also see work by Ohhi Ohno, SNAK, NOTA, KAYOS, Junk Graff, and others.
There is also a gallery of art on the wall at about the same time in 2024.
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These are images of a new concrete relief-work in progress on the Cupar Way “peace” line (war wall) at the North Howard Street gates. The creator is Debbie Hutchings, a member of the New Life City church (Fb) (Belfast Media); the piece is on top of the ‘repent’ version of the New Life mural, and it contains a scriptural quote John 3:16: “For God so loved the world He gave His only begotton [begotten] son so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
There is video of Hutchings at work in this Irish News video on Fb and at the BelTel. Work began at the beginning of April and the piece is perhaps still unfinished – see the incomplete text of John 3:8 in the third image: “The wind blows as it chooses, you can hear it’s [its] sound but you do not know where it came from or where it is going; so it is with the hearts of those born of the spirit”.
May 1st:
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The lyric, “With hatchets and hammers, Stanley knives and spanners, [we’ll show the bastards how to fight]” comes from a Linfield FC song (youtube | lyrics only). The team won the 2024-2025 (Northern) Irish Premiership league title in April, coasting to an easy win before the split (the final five games against the other top six teams) and thus secured their 57th league title – hence the emblem in the shape of a Heinz (ketchup) label at the centre of the banner above.
Linfield have two matches remaining in the 2025-2026 campaign, against Coleraine and Cliftonville, but are currently in fourth place and out of the running to be champions.
On the railings outside the Rangers’ Supporters’ Club on the upper Shankill Road.
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The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe is by far the most famous of C.S. Lewis’s ‘Chronicles Of Narnia’. It was the first of the seven to be written – in 1950 – but as it is set in 1940, The Magician’s Nephew is often read first, as it is set in 1900 and concerns the creation of Narnia. The others are The Horse And His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle. Lewis was born in Dundela and raised in Strandtown, in east Belfast (CSLewisInstitute).
Tildarg Street, east Belfast. There are also a long-standing Narnia murals in Pansy Street and in Convention Court.
work-in-progress from April 18th:
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These flowers are by emic (web) on the Earlswood Road side of the Urban Roots salon (web) on the Upper Newtownards Road. The image above – with some of the doodle-grid still visible – is from the end of March, while the images of the completed piece are from May.
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The “Loyalist Lower Shankill” (a UDA stronghold) welcomes you – if you are aligned with the United Kingdom, the crown, and Northern Ireland; to all others who might have wandered in, “no surrender”.
Hopewell Square, lower Shankill, west Belfast. (Possibly the same banner as seen in nearby Hopewell Avenue in 2024.)
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