Cliftonville striker Joe Gormley has been honoured with a new mural in his native Ardoyne. He is Cliftonville’s all-time leading goal-scorer, with more than 300 goals. He has recently signed for the forthcoming (2026-2027) season, which he says will be his last (BBC).
Velsheda Court, Ardoyne. There was previously a board to Joe The Goal in Berwick Road.
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“Ardoyne – stronger together” – this is a new Ardoyne Youth Committee/Ardoyne Youth Club mural at the Crumlin Road end of Brompton Park.
See also: Onwards & Upwards at the club itself and Stronger Together in Havana Way.
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This is a one-off piece of art in the Edenderry industrial estate, on the Crumlin Road. Get in touch if you know what the “dark horse” refers to.
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The national flower of Thailand is the blossom of the cassia fistula or golden shower tree but the high humidity and high heat also make the country an ideal growing location for more than a thousand species of orchids, making Thailand (one of) the world’s largest exporters of orchids (Nation Thailand | ASEAN Garden). In Thailand itself, they are a mark of respect and are given, for example, to teachers on Teachers’ Day (Thailand Now).
These orchids (perhaps Phalaenopsis Baldan’s Kaleidoscope) are on the shutters of Orchid Thai Massage (web) in Great Victoria Street, Belfast city centre.
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The Townsend Enterprise Park, at the Falls end of Townsend Street, was formerly the site of the Soho Foundry, established by brothers James and Robert Shipboy MacAdam, making (among other things, including scutching machines) large turbines for export across the world – “the largest steam-engine ever made in Ireland” (at 62″ in diameter) went to the Nile in Egypt in 1848 (Grace’s | Grace’s). The river portrayed is the Farset, which gives Belfast its name, and which can still be seen in the Park; the vast majority of the Farset had been paved over by 1848 (BBC).
This new mural on the wall of the Enterprise Park recalls the area’s industrial past. By Imogen Donegan (ig) with support from Daisy Chain (web).
See also My Da Was A Pigeon Man.
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This is a version (without the boats) of Hokusai’s Great Wave on the shutters of Kanagawa Japanese restaurant (Fb) in Donegall Pass.
The full title of Hokusai’s famous picture is called ‘The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, 1831’. Kanagawa is a prefecture in Japan, south-west of Tokyo, with a view of Mount Fuji.
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This nature mural – with badger, fox, rabbit, squirrel, and owl – is integrated with the bushy tree the lies along the top of the wall it is painted on. It was painted as part of the rejuvenation efforts of the Linen Quarter BID, which describes it as inspired by Cromac Wood, which existed “till the latter half of the 18th century” (Belfast Street Names) before becoming the site of the Markets (Market Social History) and Donegall Pass areas.
Painted by Visual Waste (web) in Apsley Street, south Belfast, towards the Ormeau Avenue end. Soon joined by Pass Loning.
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These are two pieces painted for Hit The North 2026 by (left) Imogen Donegan (ig) and (right) David J McMillan (ig).
Great Victoria Street, opposite the Good Vibrations quartet.
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“Mícheál Mac Daıbhéad ~ Michael Davitt, 1846 ~ 1906 … a true republican, a revolutionary and a visionary. This mural was erected to celebrate and to thank all those members of Davitt’s GAC, past and present, who have fought, struggled and diligently contributed to the foundation, development and maintainment of this club in serving our local community of the greater Falls, down through the years.”
Mícheál Mac Daıbhéad/Michael Davitt is famous for leading the Irish Republican Brotherhood and as “father of the Land League”, and a west Belfast CLG and social club is named in his honor. The board in the courtyard of the social club includes twenty photographs of the lower Falls area from the years of the Troubles.
“To all my friends I leave kind thoughts, to my enemies the fullest possible forgiveness, and to Ireland the undying prayer for the absolute freedom and independence which it was my life’s ambition to try and obtain for her.” These words come from Davitt’s will; he died at age 60 (Mayo Live). The mural referred to in the information board (in the final image) was painted for the centenary of the club, in 2012.
This board replaces a c. 2014 mural.
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Here are two new pieces in the pedestrian tunnel next to the York Street rail station – which was originally painted in the summer of 2024 – by (above) Ana Fish (ig) – featuring her dog Betty (ig) – and by Wee Nuls (ig) (below).
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