On the left, singer Aretha Franklin is quoted as saying, “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”
Before he died (in 2005), Belfast-born soccer-player George Best (on the right) asked that people “remember me for my football” and the phrase became the title of a Best retrospective.
Glen Molly (ig) street art in Hill Street.
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Manchester’s Nomad Clan were in town for CNB17/HTN17 and painted the large wall outside the Dirty Onion in Hill Street, punning on local shipbuilders Harland & Wolff. There’s some video of the piece in progress in this CNN profile.
Hill Street, Belfast
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The speech balloons that were added to the Ring Of Peace mural in Waring Street to advertise office space are still there, seven years later.
The bubbles read “Forget it, Muriel. I’m moving my business to CQHQ without you!” “Oh Jeff … It’s too close to the City Centre! I want to be with nature …”.
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Here is a small gallery of street art in North Street (below Royal Avenue). Above is emic (2018). Below are …
Glen Molloy (2021)
Friz + Dan Leo (2013)
JMK (2014)
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Here is a gallery of the street art in Kent Street, starting, above, with Mr Cenz’s 2021 piece. In order, below, we have work by …
Curtis Hylton (2022)
ESTR (2019)
Leo Boyd (2022)
Alana McDowell (2022)
Glen Molloy (2022)
Conor McClure (2022)
NRMN (2022)
HMConstance (2022)
Kilian (2022)
Kerrie Hanna (2022)
Dan Leo (2016)
Bust (2022)
Conzo + Glöbel (2018)
… north side of the street …
ADW (2022)
JMK (2022)
emic (2016)
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Here is a gallery of the street art in Union Street, starting, above, with emic’s 2020 piece “Fuck Racism”. In order, below, we have work by …
Wee Nuls + Ten Hundred + KVLR (2019)
ADW (2016)
Ink Fun (2022)
Shane Ha (2022)
Friz (2022)
Lobster Robin (2022)
irony (2022)
RAZER (2022)
ESTR + Lanni Powder (in Little Donegall Street, 2017)
KinMx (in Library Street, 2017)
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North Street Arcade was burned down in April 2004 – see Who Burnt Us Out?. Since 2012, there has been street art at both its North Street and Donegall Street ends, the latest (from September, 2021) being this piece by Danni Simpson (ig) in Donegall St.
For the girl with owl left over from the previous Matt Sewell street art, see Only When The Dusk Starts To Fall (along with A Bird In The Hand and Carnival Of The Animals).
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Twenty-five victims of five “Shankill atrocities” – at the Four Step Inn, the Balmoral Furniture Store, Mountainview Bar, Bayardo Bar, and (from the 1990s) Frizzell’s fish shop – are remembered in an updated board in Dundee Street. The central image remains 17-month-old Colin Nichol in the arms of ambulance man Bob Scott.
(See the Peter Moloney Collection for the previous version. Before that, there was a painted version on Bellevue Street: Where Is Our Truth?)
“30 years of indiscriminate slaughter by so-called non-sectarian Irish freedom fighters. Provisional Sinn Fein demands “equality/respect/integrity”. No military targets! No economic targets! No legitimate targets! No enquiries! No truth! No justice! Where is the “equality” in justice? Where is the “respect” for Protestants? Where is the “integrity” in murder? We remember the victims of Provisional Sinn Fein genocide.”
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The mural is a version of the old Beverley Street ‘welcome’ mural (by Blaze FX), with the same four panels (parades/bonfire, blitz, sports, murals) and the same three hands. But instead of “Proud, Defiant, Welcoming” we now have “Proud, Resilient, Welcoming”. (I Am Not Resilient in the lower Shankill complains that the word is used to justify neglect and/or maltreatment.)
It escaped no one’s notice that, although the number of languages expressing a greeting is now much greater than the original ten, Irish is not included among them. Also Ulstèr Scots. (Also French, for some reason. Polish is included – “Witamy”). (See similarly “No Irish” in the lower Shankill estate but also All Flags Are Welcome in Divis, which omitted the Union Flag.)
The claim that the Shankill area dates back to AD 455 is used in The Original Belfast. The claim was made by the Greater Shankill Partnership.
Despite the appearance of bricks, the main panel is not in fact a mural but a board.
Gardiner Street. For the previous mural, see Welcome To The Shankill. Held over from the old mural are the two strips of ‘famous faces’ on the left and right.
Images of the July 10th launch from sponsors Alternatives.
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